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Under pressure! Watch a Lockheed Martin inflatable space habitat explode (video)

Lockheed Martin has been blowing up its in-development inflatable space habitat in more ways than one.

Something weird is happening in Jupiter's atmosphere, 40-year study shows

Something odd is happening in Jupiter's atmosphere, a new study has revealed.

Russians assess flight worthiness of damaged Soyuz docked at space station

Russia’s Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft is pictured docked at the International Space Station in this Oct. 8 file photo. Credit: NASA

Russian managers are assessing whether a damaged Soyuz spacecraft docked at the International Space Station can safely carry its three-man crew back to Earth in late March as planned or whether a replacement must be launched to take its place, officials said Monday.

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Megadrought on Earth affected gravity waves at the edge of space

An intense drought that has persisted on Earth for over two decades is now thought to have affected gravity wave activity where our planet's atmosphere meets outer space

JWST Sees Furious Star Formation in a Stellar Nursery

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope is a mighty technological tool. Astrophysicists first conceived it over 20 years ago, and after many twists and turns, it was launched on December 2st, 2021. Now it’s in a halo orbit at the Sun-Earth L2 point, where it will hopefully continue operating for 20 years.

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'Avatar: The Way of Water' is a striking sci-fi fantasia drowned in Hollywood cliches

James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water" is technically brilliant and visually stunning, but it's overlong and riddled with cliches.

Webb Telescope Sees Deep and Wide into the Universe

A new deep field from the James Webb Space Telescope shows how galaxies evolved in the early universe.

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North Korea launches test flight for planned 2023 spy satellite

North Korea launched a rocket to test ground stations ahead of a planned spy satellite launch into orbit by April 2023, according to the nation's state-run media.

Gravitational Wave Observatories Could Search for Warp Drive Signatures

In 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced that they had made the first confirmed detection of gravitational waves (GWs). This discovery confirmed a prediction made a century before by Einstein and his Theory of General Relativity and opened the door to a whole new field of astrophysical research. By studying the waves caused by the merger of massive objects, scientists could probe the interior of neutron stars, detect dark matter, and discover new particles around supermassive black holes (SMBHs).

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Meteoroid strike may have caused Soyuz spacecraft leak, Russian state news reports

The Russian space agency has not yet disclosed a cause for the leak that sprung on a Soyuz spacecraft Thursday (Dec. 15), although a state agency speculated it might be a meteor.

Fujifilm X-T5 review

The Fujifilm X-T5 is by no means an astrophotography specialist, but it does perform well in low light and is a great all-rounder.

Ancient Mexico's solar calendar in the mountains identified

Ancient Mexicans closely watching the sun from only a single location accurately tracked the seasons and operated a farming calendar that fed millions.

The creatures of Avatar & Avatar: The Way of Water

As we return to Pandora in theaters, we learn a bit more about the distinct creatures, old and new, that roam the gorgeous locations of the Avatar movies.

Mammals were already poised to take over the world before the dino-killing asteroid struck

Ancient mammals were better adapted than nonavian dinosaurs to survive the Chicxulub asteroid impact.

Doom-spiraling exoplanet will someday meet fiery demise

Tidal interactions are pulling the exoplanet toward its demise: a fiery collision with its star.

Scientists trace fireball to strange rocky meteoroid from the edge of the solar system

A rocky meteoroid that exploded over Canada last year was more extraordinary than it first seemed: it originated from the outer solar system, where scientists thought only icy bodies exist.

NASA's InSight lander just recorded its biggest quake on Mars ever

A Marsquake detected by NASA's InSight lander in May this year was at least five times larger than the next largest seismic event recorded on the planet.

One year ago, a perfect launch for the James Webb Space Telescope

The voice counted backwards in French from ten to one, then announced, “Décollage” – lift-off. The 15-year-long collaboration between NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency had just entered its most critical phase: the launch itself. What happened next would determine whether the James Webb Space Telescope made it into space or not.

One ESA: now in six languages

One ESA: now in six languages

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Rocket Lab delays 1st US launch due to unacceptably high winds

Rocket Lab's debut launch from American soil will have to wait at least another day after high winds thwarted an attempted liftoff Sunday evening (Dec. 18).

Could Space-based Satellites Power Remote Mines?

Many space-based technologies are still looking for their “killer app” – the thing that they do better than anything else and makes them indispensable to whoever needs to have that app to solve a problem. At this point in the development of humanity, most of those killer apps will involve solving a problem back on Earth. Space-based solar power satellites are certainly one of those technologies. 

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