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The Senate Appropriations Committee offered their recommendations on the spending bill for fiscal year 2024, and they do not provide all NASA was hoping for. The Commerce, Justice and Science (CJS) spending bill, which …

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Studying the hydrogen fingerprint from just after the Big Bang could allow researchers to kill ‘two birds with one stone!’ Comments (0). illustration showing several small galaxies encased in bubbles hovering above a forest-like landscape.

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The stellar wreckage left by the death throes of a giant red star takes the appearance of an overflowing cosmic jug in a stunning new image. The observation made by the Gemini South telescope, part of the International Gemini Observatory, shows a cloud …

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Close binary stars are responsible for the alignment of planetary nebulas shed by exploding stars in the Milky Way’s galactic bulge. Comments (0). An illustration shows 22 planetary nebula arranged according to size (Image credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, …

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A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 15 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to launch from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Wednesday at 12:40 a.m. EDT (0440 GMT; 9:40 p.m. on July 18 local California time).

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The way in which the radiant displays of colors in the sky known as auroras form on Earth may be how these lights arise throughout the solar system, according to new findings from Mercury. On Earth, auroras — also known as the northern and southern …

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Several meteors can be seen streaking across a starry night sky. Meteors burn up as the they streak through Earth’s atmosphere. Did one strike a French resident earlier this month?

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A fossil unearthed in northeastern China captures the two creatures — a badgerlike animal called Repenomamus robustus and a species of plant-eating dinosaur known as Psittacosaurus — forever locked in mortal combat. It’s a dramatic instant …

Smithsonian

RCW58, a Wolf-Rayet bubble nebula, is made of ejected material from the star WR 40, which shines at the center of the image. © Mark Hanson, Mike Selby.

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Scientists discovered the loss when they sequenced the genomes of two nematomorph species: the freshwater hairworm Acutogordius australiensis and the marine species Nectonema munidae. Which genes were missing? While the worms’ behavior has …