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When planets form around a young star, their orbital periods often enter “resonances” with each other. An everyday example of a resonance has to do with pushing someone on a playground swing — if you time …

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NASA’s Galileo spacecraft captures an image of Earth’s moon on December 7, 1992, showcasing areas of light and dark rock across the lunar surface. NASA. Sign up …

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Astronomers have traced the origins of 200 meteorites to five impact craters in two volcanic regions on Mars, known as Tharsis and Elysium. Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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Using data from multiple Earth observing satellites, the researchers studied the growth of more than 1,550 cities worldwide from 1990 to 2020 — a period during which urban populations roughly doubled from about 2 billion to 4 billion.

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SpaceX is targeting Tuesday (Aug. 27) for the launch of its Polaris Dawn mission, which will take a Crew Dragon spacecraft to its highest orbit and feature the first-ever private spacewalk. Here’s how you can watch the historic action live.

Scientific American

A pair of far-distant colliding spiral galaxies, as seen by NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes. A similar fate may await our own Milky Way billions of years from now if it collides with our nearest neighboring spiral galaxy, Andromeda.

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NASA engineers met Friday to review test results and make recommendations on whether to bring two astronauts back to Earth aboard Boeing’s Starliner ferry ship or keep them in orbit an additional six months and bring them home aboard a SpaceX Crew …

Phys.Org

Professors Andreas Crivellin of the University of Zurich and Bruce Mellado of the University of the Witwatersrand and iThemba LABS in South Africa have documented deviations in the way particles interact. These deviations are inconsistent in comparison …

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As Boeing’s first crewed Starliner test flight nears the 80-day mark of what was initially an eight-day mission, NASA leaders will give an update on Saturday (Aug. 27) to outline their plan on how to return Starliner’s astronaut crew to Earth.

Scientific American

The crew of Polaris Dawn, (left to right) Anna Menon, Scott Poteet, Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis pose in front of rocket stages at SpaceX’s Starbase Complex in Boca Chica. Jonathan …