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Siberian wildfires double greenhouse gas emission record: This is how they look from space.

Wildfires in Siberia have produced 800 megatons of carbon dioxide since the beginning of June, nearly doubling last year's record, according to estimates.

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Astronauts Took A Fly-around of the International Space Station. Here are Their Stunning Pictures

You can guide Mono on his journey with 38% off.

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What is the speed of light?

The speed of light puts a speed limit on matter, lets us peer back into the history of our universe, and has deep implications for physics and space travel.

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SpaceX Starlink satellites responsible for over half of close encounters in orbit, scientist says

SpaceX's Starlink satellites are involved in about 1,600 close encounters between two spacecraft in low Earth orbit every week, according to available data. That’s about 50% of all such incidents.

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The August 2021 full moon is, somehow, a Blue Moon. Here's why.

We usually associate the term Blue Moon with a month containing two full moons. That won't happen in August, yet this month brings a Blue Moon nonetheless.

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Chinese astronomers eye Tibetan Plateau site for observatory project

Chinese astronomers hope to establish a major observatory program on the roof of the world, the Tibetan Plateau, with new research arguing for pristine observing conditions nestled in the uplands.

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Intuitive Machines picks SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch its moon lander for NASA

A Houston-based company that NASA selected to ferry upcoming lunar experiments to the moon has hired SpaceX to launch its lunar landing mission.

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Cyberspace and outer space are new frontiers for national security, according to an expert report

What do cyberspace and outer space have in common?

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The Milky Way has a 'broken' arm that could reveal its galactic history

JPL says the gap looks like 'a splinter poking out from a plank of wood'

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SpaceX's Starship could be ready for 1st orbital test flight 'in a few weeks,' Elon Musk says

The first full-size prototype of SpaceX's Starship vehicle should be ready to launch on an orbital test flight "in a few weeks," company founder and CEO Elon Musk said via Twitter on Saturday (Aug. 14).

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NASA's superfast Parker Solar Probe just broke it own speed record at the sun

A tiny cubesat called AuroraSat-1 will launch atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster in the fourth quarter of this year to demonstrate de-orbiting tech for small spacecraft.

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Earth rocks collected in 19th century hold clues to finding water on Mars

By studying rocks on Earth, researchers suggest that their Martian counterparts could also have water trapped within them.

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'Star Trek' legend Nichelle Nichols caught in ongoing conservatorship battle: report

Beloved "Star Trek" actress Nichelle Nichols is caught in the middle of a conservatorship battle as she fights her own battle with dementia.

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Mars helicopter Ingenuity soars through challenging 12th flight on Red Planet

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity made its 12th Red Planet flight on Monday (Aug. 16), during which the little chopper served as eyes in the sky for its larger companion, the Perseverance rover.

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Can the US and China Cooperate in Space?

China’s meteoric rise in space science and exploration—along with its new partnership with Russia—is spurring U.S. experts to reconsider a long-standing prohibition on bilateral collaborations

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Famous Einstein equation used to create matter from light for first time

The particles used were spooky virtual particles, conjured from a disturbance between two electromagnetic fields.

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Space collision: Chinese satellite got whacked by hunk of Russian rocket in March

The partial breakup of China's Yunhai 1-02 military satellite on March 18 is no longer mysterious.

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Haiti's earthquake aftermath is visible from space

Satellite imagery captured the devastating damage left behind from the 7.2-magnitude earthquake on Saturday (Aug. 14).

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Watch Black Holes Grow, Galaxies Fall

Thousands of people congregated on the tarmac at Kabul's international airport amid mass evacuations

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5,000 possible alien worlds in less than 4 years for NASA planet-hunting mission

Multiple exploding stars may have seeded the solar system with material required to form planets.

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In photos: The astronauts of Expedition 65 to the International Space Station

With 11 crewmembers, two SpaceX Crew Dragon missions and a Russian module mishap, it's been a busy mission! See photos of the Expedition 65 crew in action.

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