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Kerbal Space Program 2 trailer wants you to 'Fail harder' and 'Add more boosters'

Now you can launch and crash vehicles for Kerbonauts in new and spectacular ways in the sequel releasing to the popular Kerbal Space Program space game Friday (Feb. 24).

Subsurface ocean tides on Saturn's moon Titan are influenced by its icy crust

Scientists examine how Titan's icy shell creates tides in the moon's subsurface ocean.

The James Webb Space Telescope discovers enormous distant galaxies that should not exist

The James Webb Space Telescope found massive, mature galaxies inhabiting the universe so soon after the Big Bang that according to current theories they really shouldn't exist.

Blue Origin makes solar cells out of simulated moon dirt with 'alchemist' project

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' private spaceflight company, claims it has made major progress in developing a way to make solar panels using materials from the lunar surface.

Have Scientists Found a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole?

An unusual stellar streak emerging from a distant galaxy might be a sign of a runaway supermassive black hole, scientists suggest.

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Hubble Space Telescope peers into a glittering sea of extragalactic stars (photo)

A new Hubble Space Telescope image highlights a region in the dwarf satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud that is rich in stars.

Mars helicopter Ingenuity’s historic 1st flights shed light on Martian dust dynamics

Scientists analyzing videos of Ingenuity’s historic first flights on Mars are learning more about dust behavior on the Red Planet.

In the wake of shadows: the legacy of Babylon 5

As we pass the show's 30th anniversary, we look back at the enduring legacy of Babylon 5, one of sci-fi's most underrated shows.

Watch Russia launch replacement Soyuz to International Space Station on Thursday (Feb. 23)

Crewmembers on the International Space Station are awaiting the fresh spacecraft, which will replace a leaky Soyuz currently docked with the orbiting complex.

See the moon and Venus dance together in Wednesday evening's sky

On Wednesday (Feb. 22), the moon and Venus will make a close approach and also reach conjunction, which happens when they share the same right ascension.

Cosmic Conjunction: Jupiter Meets Venus on March 1st

The two brightest planets pass less than half a degree apart at dusk during a spectacular conjunction on the night of March 1st.

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Farming on the Moon

Image: Farming on the Moon

Meteorites are Contaminated Quickly When They Reach Earth

On Earth, geologists study rocks to help better understand the history of our planet. In contrast, planetary geologists study meteorites to help better understand the history of our solar system. While these space rocks put on quite the spectacle when they enter our atmosphere at high speeds, they also offer insights into both the formation and evolution of the solar system and the planetary bodies that encompass it. But what happens as a meteorite traverses our thick atmosphere and lands on the Earth? Does it stay in its pristine condition for scientists to study? How quickly should we contain the meteorite before the many geological processes that make up our planet contaminate the specimen? How does this contamination affect how the meteorite is studied?

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SpaceX, NASA delay Crew-6 astronaut launch to Feb. 27

SpaceX and NASA have pushed the launch of the Crew-6 astronaut mission by a day to Feb. 27, allowing more time to investigate several minor issues.

Colliding black holes 'ring' across space-time with gravitational wave ripples

A new model suggests how gravitational waves created by the collision between black holes spread and interact within the fabric of space-time.

Russia blames Progress leak on ‘external influences’ as new Soyuz preps for launch

Russia’s Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft, perched atop a Soyuz rocket, rolled to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome Tuesday, Feb. 21. Credit: Roscosmos

Russia’s space agency said Tuesday that preliminary data suggest a coolant leak on a Progress cargo freighter docked at the International Space Station earlier this month was caused by “external influences” — possibly something that occurred during its launch last year, according to a senior NASA space station manager.

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Green comet seen from space by Artemis 1 moon mission cubesat (video)

A Japanese cubesat launched aboard NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission took a video of Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) earlier this month, about two weeks after the ice ball's closest approach to Earth.

“The Sparkler” Might be Our Milky Way’s Long-Lost Twin

Astronomers are using compact groups of stars to probe the history of a galaxy in the adolescent universe dubbed "The Sparkler."

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'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania' drops the Marvel Universe down a subatomic rabbit hole

A review of director Peyton Reed's "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania."

A 500-Meter-Long Asteroid Flew Past Earth, and Astronomers Were Watching

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building flew past Earth in early February, coming within 1.8 million km (1.1 million miles) of our planet. Not only is it approximately the same size as the building, but astronomers found the asteroid – named 2011 AG5 — has an unusual shape, with about the same dimensions as the famous landmark in New York City.

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