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A massive, icy Mars crater stares up at a Red Planet orbiter (image)

A massive Mars impact crater dominates a new view from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO).

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Watch the 1st trailer for 'Dune: Prophecy' prequel series (video)

The first trailer for Max's "Dune: Prophecy" prequel spinoff has just arrived, revealing the origins of the franchise's mysterious Bene Gesserit sisterhood.

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India's space agency has been carefully watching our sun's solar tantrums

The Indian Space Research Organization has released solar storm data from ground stations and spacecraft, including the Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter.

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Stephen Hawking Medal 2024 winners announced at star-studded Starmus VII festival

The four winners of the Stephen Hawking Medal 2024 were announced during a medal ceremony at Starmus VII science and music festival in Bratislava, Slovakia.

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How do you forecast a solar storm? Space weather experts explain

While the weekend solar event gave us quite the show in the night sky, it also helps scientists learn more about space weather to continue to improve forecasts.

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Huge, solar flare-launching sunspot has rotated away from Earth. But will it return?

The behemoth sunspot AR3664 has finally rotated out of Earth's view, firing off two more big solar storms on its way out the door. Will it come back?

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NASA details plan to build a levitating robot train on the moon

NASA's plan to build a train track on the moon is part of the agency's Innovative Advanced Concepts program, which aims to develop "science fiction-like" projects for future space exploration.

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Supernova-filled galaxy dazzles in new Hubble Telescope image

The Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged an actively star-forming galaxy named UGC 9684.

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Earth-size planet discovered around cool red dwarf star shares its name with a biscuit

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet orbiting a red dwarf star, making just the second planetary system seen around one of these tiny, cool, dim, but common, stars.

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Milky Way's halo is filled with 'magnetic donuts' as wide as 100,000 light-years

Astronomers have determined that the Milky Way's outer halo is filled with "magnetic donuts" that are as wide as 100,000 light-years. The discovery could shed light on how cosmic magnetic fields form and evolve.

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Learn how to become an astrobiologist in new issue of NASA's graphic novel series

A preview of NASA's latest issue of "Astrobiology," their fun ongoing graphic novel series

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Cotton candy exoplanet is 2nd lightest planet ever found

A newly discovered giant planet is the density of a vast cloud of cotton candy. The sweet discovery of WASP-193 b marks the entry of the second-lightest exoplanet ever seen into the exoplanet catalog.

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Wow! Satellite views International Space Station from only 43 miles away (photo)

The International Space Station was caught on camera in an incredible new photo from HEO Robotics, which images satellites using space-based sensors.

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Where did Earth's water come from? This ancient asteroid family may help us find out

The family is part of a larger asteroid that was smashed to pieces 130 million years ago.

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To better predict volcanic eruptions, you have to dig deep — very deep

New research suggests studying the state of magma in deep reservoirs can improve volcanic eruption predictions.

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Cosmic butterfly or interstellar burger? This planet-forming disk is the largest ever seen

A distant planetary nursery is breaking all records as it shows the extremes to which planet formation can go.

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Satellite images of Rafah illustrate Palestinians fleeing the city

Satellite imagery of Rafah, Gaza, provided by commercial company Planet Labs, offers a spaceborne view of the Israel-Hamas war.

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SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites on 50th mission of the year (video)

SpaceX launched 20 of its Starlink internet satellites today (May 14), on the company's 50th orbital mission of 2024.

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The summer of 2023 was Earth's hottest in 2,000 years, scientists find

Using tree ring data, scientists have confirmed that summer 2023 was the hottest summer on Earth in the last 2,000 years.

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Giant 'rogue waves' of invisible matter might be disrupting the orbits of stars, new study hints

New research shows how disruptions to binary star systems could be the key to detecting space's most confounding substance — dark matter.

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Helium leak delays Boeing's 1st Starliner astronaut launch to May 21

The first crewed mission of Boeing's Starliner capsule has been pushed back by four days to May 21, due to a helium leak in its service module.

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