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Pluto's 'almost twin' dwarf planet Eris is surprisingly squishy

Pluto's 'almost twin' dwarf planet Eris has a rocky core blanketed by an icy shell, which appears to be flexing slowly.

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How Perseverance rover captured its youngest samples from Mars' Dream Lake (video)

A new NASA video explains how the Perseverance Rover may have collected its youngest rock sample yet from the Red Planet's Jezero Crater.

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Stratolaunch's huge Roc plane flies with fueled-up hypersonic vehicle for 1st time (photos)

Stratolaunch's giant Roc airplane conducted its first-ever captive-carry flight with a fueled Talon-A hypersonic test vehicle on Sunday (Dec. 3).

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SpaceX buys parachute manufacturer Pioneer Aerospace

SpaceX has acquired Pioneer Aerospace, a company that provided components for Dragon spacecraft parachutes before filing for bankruptcy.

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James Webb Space Telescope gazes into 'The Brick,' a dark nebula near the Milky Way's heart

A dark nebula, also known as "The Brick," was imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Historic magnetic storms help scientists learn what to expect when one hits

Magnetic storms can create amazing auroras, but they also have the capacity to impact our power grid.

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The Predator returns in Marvel Comics' 'The Last Hunt' miniseries

The galaxy's most notorious alien bounty hunter returns in Marvel Comics' "Predator: The Last Hunt #1" coming in February 2024.

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A cosmic 'fossil record' could be hidden among orphaned stars

The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory will help astronomers track stars ripped from their galaxies, revealing a cosmic fossil record to track the evolution of galactic clusters.

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Mighty morphin' Centaur rings — a distant icy object's rings are transforming

What is causing the structure of the dust to evolve, and where exactly the dust comes from, is still a mystery.

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The elusive origins of long gamma-ray bursts may finally be revealed

New research helps resolve the mystery surrounding strange long gamma-ray bursts, suggesting these blasts of high-energy radiation emerge from collisions of neutron stars that birth black holes.

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Space mysteries: Why are there no gas moons?

In our solar system we have rocky moons, ocean moons and frozen-ice moons, but there are no gas moons. Are we just unlucky not to have any gas moons, or are there physical reasons why they cannot exist?

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NASA to train Indian astronauts for a week-long trip to ISS in 2024

NASA will train two Indian astronauts, one of whom will fly to the ISS late next year, a space agency official announced this week.

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Strange 'blob' circling Milky Way's central black hole is shooting powerful radiation at Earth every 76 minutes

Regular high-energy pulses of gamma-ray radiation emerging from around the Milky Way's central black hole may be coming from a blob of matter whipping around at 30% the speed of light.

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Near-Earth asteroids: Hunting and tracking upcoming encounters

Here we explore whether there are any upcoming asteroid encounters and how NASA and other space agencies actively monitor near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to hit our planet.

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The Peregrine Lunar Lander is set to launch on Dec 24. Here's what it'll bring to the moon

There will be 20 total payloads being brought to the moon, five of which are NASA's.

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Cosmonauts dock Russian Progress cargo ship to ISS on remote control after autopilot glitch

Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station took manual control of an incoming Progress 86 cargo ship on Sunday, Dec. 3, due to an autopilot issue.

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A 'runaway star' could save Earth from extinction a billion years from now. Here's how.

Earth will become too hot to handle in a billion years. There's a (very) remote chance a passing star could save us by knocking our planet back into the habitable zone.

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China's Landspace gears up for 3rd launch of its methane-powered rocket

The Zhuque-2 was the first methane-fueled rocket to reach Earth orbit, and the Chinese private spaceflight company Landspace is set to launch it again later on Dec. 5.

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From Earth orbit to the moon: Europe's I-Hab continues Spacelab 40-year legacy

A legacy of European-built and operated space modules, which began in Earth orbit and is now heading for the moon, got its start with Spacelab 40 years ago.

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1st launch of Europe's Ariane 6 rocket finally has June 2024 launch target

After a 4-year delay, the new heavy-lift rocket for Europe is almost ready for space. Ariane 6 should launch for the European Space Agency no earlier than June 15.

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Axiom Space's 3rd private mission will conduct pioneering microgravity experiments on ISS

Set to launch to the ISS in Jan. 2024, the commercial mission Axiom-3 will continue to push the frontiers of science by conducting an array of experiments in microgravity.

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