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Japan and India plan 2025 moon mission to hunt for water near the lunar south pole

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Is making progress on its rover for a joint mission with India to the south pole of the moon.

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Astronomers discover thousands of active red galaxy hearts with powerful radio signals

The radio signals hint at an important evolutionary step in the lives of galaxies.

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How fast will October's annular solar eclipse travel?

The moon's shadow will travel as fast as 7,000 mph on Oct. 14 and as slow as 1,700 mph. We explore what affects the speed of a solar eclipse.

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NASA astronaut Jan Davis recounts career, father's POW experience in new book

NASA space shuttle astronaut Jan Davis first read her father's letters about being a WWII prisoner of war in 2020. The collection inspired her to write a new memoir, called "Air Born."

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A giant moon collision may have given rise to Saturn's iconic rings, study suggests

A collision between two ancient icy moons that may have once orbited Saturn could have given rise to the planet's iconic ring system, a new study reveals.

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SpaceX launch of NASA's Psyche asteroid mission is just 1 week away

NASA's Psyche mission is set to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket just seven days from now, on Oct. 5.

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Radio telescope will launch to moon's far side in 2025 to hunt for the cosmic Dark Ages

The Dark Ages are the period of time between the Big Bang and the birth of stars and galaxies.

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FAA closes investigation of Blue Origin launch failure

The Federal Aviation Administration has finished investigating the failure suffered by Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle on Sept. 12, 2022.

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Watch a 180-year-old star eruption unfold in new time-lapse movie (video)

Over two decades of data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory helped scientists craft a stunning new video of a historic stellar eruption.

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1st black hole imaged by humanity is confirmed to be spinning, study finds

New research has found the jet blasting outward from this black hole swings like a pendulum on an 11-year cycle.

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Japan's 'moon sniper' probe snaps photo of Earth from orbit

Japan's SLIM lunar lander has sent back an eerie image of Earth as a test of the camera it will use to help it land accurately on the moon a few months from now.

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Private astronaut to attempt record skydive on Sept. 28

Ax-1's Larry Connor and the rest of the 'Alpha 5' team will try to set a new HALO formation skydiving world record on Thursday morning (Sept. 28).

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Mammals may be driven to extinction by volcanic new supercontinent Pangaea Ultima

The next supercontinent, Pangea Ultima, is likely to get so hot so quickly that mammals cannot adapt, a new supercomputer simulation has forecast.

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'Dark universe' telescope Euclid faces some setbacks during commissioning

The observatory's star navigation system and sun protective devices have presented with anomalies.

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What would colors look like on other planets?

Here's how your brain might adjust to see color on another world.

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NASA picks 3 museums to display OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples

As NASA saw its first asteroid sample return to Earth, three museums took particular notice, knowing they had been chosen to display small examples of the space rock material.

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How to photograph the 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse on Oct. 14

Here's everything you need to know about how to photograph the upcoming annular solar eclipse on Oct 14.

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NASA opens OSIRIS-REx's asteroid-sample canister (photos)

Scientists removed the outer lid of OSIRIS-REx's sample canister on Tuesday (Sept. 26). But a full reveal of the mission's asteroid sample is still two weeks away.

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Antimatter responds to gravity like Einstein predicted, major CERN experiment confirms

The new study marks the beginning of detailed and direct pursuit of the gravitational nature of antimatter, which remains puzzlingly scarce in the universe.

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Record-setting NASA astronaut lands with Russian crewmates after 1 year on space station

The first American to spend a year in space and first Russians to do the same on the International Space Station have landed. Frank Rubio, Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin returned on Soyuz MS-23.

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Harvest moon 2023, the last supermoon of the year, kicks off fall stargazing on Sept. 29

The last supermoon of 2023 will illuminate the autumn sky on Friday.

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