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Astronomers have deciphered the mysterious behavior of a dead star that’s greedily feasting on a stellar companion. Located around 4,500 light years away, this strangely behaving pulsar, or rapidly spinning neutron star, is …

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A three-decade-old Soviet satellite has disintegrated in orbit some 870 miles (1,400 kilometers) above Earth, likely following a space debris strike. The disintegration of the satellite, either the Kosmos-2143 or Kosmos-2145 spacecraft, was reported on …

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NASA will discuss the impending arrival of the asteroid sample collected by its OSIRIS-REx probe during a press conference today (Aug. 30), and you can watch it live. That sample — about 8.8 ounces (250 grams) of dirt and gravel snagged from the …

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August is almost over, but it still has a rare event to deliver to skywatchers in the form of a second full moon. The full moon that rises on Wednesday, Aug. 30, will be a special one too, the unification of a supermoon and a Blue Moon, a “Super Blue …

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Astronomers have unexpectedly discovered the heaviest Neptune-like planet yet — one more than four times the mass of our solar system’s Neptune — yet it remains a mystery how the world might have formed. Between rocky planets about the mass of Earth …

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An international team of astronomers has unraveled new insights about an object at the center of a cosmic mystery — a pulsar that appears to constantly change in brightness. Now, the scientists think they know what’s behind it.

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Harnessing laser beams, ILLUMA-T is expected to transmit information at the rate of a respectable internet connection. Comments (0). An illustration of the ISS transmitting information to the system via laser beam, and the.

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On Aug. 23, Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander became the first craft to ever touch down at the lunar south pole — and the probe has wasted very little time scientifically exploring an environment that no mission from any country has ever visited.

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The moon and the gas giant will then set at around 6:07 a.m. EDT (1007 GMT), just before sunrise, on Thursday, Aug. 31. During the close approach of the moon to …

The New York Times

(That’s because it is closest to Earth in its elliptical orbit.) That is already rare: There are usually only one or two super moons a year, said Matt O’Dowd, the chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department at Lehman College.