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Can artificial intelligence help scientists spot gravitational waves?

Scientists hunting for elusive gravitational waves across the universe may be able to supercharge their discoveries with a new tool: artificial intelligence.

City-sized asteroids smacked ancient Earth 10 times more often than thought

Asteroids as big as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, or even bigger, used to strike ancient Earth ten times more often than previously believed, according to a new study.

Hubble trouble is latest glitch in space telescope's long and storied history

For the past month, our most beloved eye on the universe has been closed, blinded by a computer glitch that NASA experts are still working to solve.

The best back to school space deals and gifts for kids 2021

From science kits to essentials, we've got something for every budget ahead of the back to school rush.

What's in Store for the Next Decade of Planetary Science

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ESA’s first Earth observation mission dedicated to understanding our planet, the European Remote Sensing satellite (ERS-1), was launched into orbit on 17 July 1991. At the time, it was the most sophisticated Earth observation spacecraft developed and launched by Europe.

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Mount Etna is 100 feet taller than it was 6 months ago

Blue Origin's nonprofit Club for the Future is donating $1 million apiece to 19 space organizations. The money was raised by selling a seat on Blue Origin's upcoming first crewed spaceflight.

'The Colony' trailer shows the struggle for survival upon returning to a once-ravaged Earth

The Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage for NASA’s first Space Launch System test flight was stacked on top of the rocket July 5. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

The upper stage for the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System was installed on top of the heavy-lift rocket earlier this month, moving the agency one step closer to liftoff of the Artemis 1 test mission to the moon.

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NASA astronauts on spacewalk prep space station for new solar array

Engineers have identified the possible cause of the Hubble Space Telescope's computer problems, and they plan to start implementing a fix on Thursday (July 15).

It's rolling! NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission begins journey to the launch pad

7-Eleven is sending its Slurpee drink "on a private spaceflight" in celebration of its 94th year in business, and you can help decide one of the key factors — or rather, flavors — of the launch.

Hints of intriguing diversity seen in super-energetic 'fast radio bursts'

Star Trek: Discovery: Season Three"is arriving on Blu-ray, DVD, and Limited Edition Steelbook on July 20 and here's a closer peek into its adventurous story arc.

2 SpaceX astronaut launches to the space station delayed by a few days

Astronomers detected a rare teardrop-shaped star that is being ripped apart by an invisible white dwarf, pushing the pair toward an inevitable supernova explosion.

In Heaven with M7, a Portal Into the Deep

M7 in Scorpius is one of the brightest, most beautiful open clusters in the sky. It's also "home" to a half-dozen other delectable deep-sky sights.

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Mars Helicopter Scouts Risky Terrain for Perseverance Rover

The Ingenuity Mars helicopter has proven itself a valuable asset to Perseverance, scouting out terrain that the rover can't cross.

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In photos: Virgin Galactic's 1st fully crewed spaceflight with billionaire Richard Branson

The space tourism company Virgin Galactic successfully launched its founder Richard Branson and five other crewmembers into suborbital space on July 11, 2021 in a milestone mission that marked the first fully crewed flight of its VSS Unity space plane. 

The Sentinel 6 satellite is now tracking Earth's rising sea levels with unprecedented accuracy

The new European-American ocean monitoring satellite Sentinel 6 Michael Freilich has started delivering precise sea-level rise data after six months of technical calibrations.

Astronomy Jargon 101: Magellanic Clouds

NASA's Juno flew by Jupiter's Ganymede, the biggest moon in the solar system, on June 7, 2021.

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We're launching Australia's first scratch-built satellite, and it's a giant leap towards the moon

We don’t quite understand how the first supermassive black holes formed so quickly in the young universe. So a team of physicists are proposing a radical idea. Instead of forming black holes through the usual death-of-a-massive-start route, instead giant dark matter halos directly collapsed, forming the seeds of the first great black holes.

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Northern lights (aurora borealis): What they are and how to see them

Sometimes loud explosions are easier to deal with when you know they’re coming.  They are also easier to watch out for.  So when astronomers from the University of Warwick found a rare tear-drop shaped star, known as HD265435, they knew they were looking at a potential new supernova waiting to happen.  The only caveat – it might not actually happen until 70 million years from now.

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Astronomy Jargon 101: Adaptive Optics

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's mission to study Earth's Van Allen radiation belts ended on May 31, after exceeding its original planned lifetime of one year in orbit.

Live coverage: India’s GSLV Mk.2 rocket set for launch today

The planets are a dynamic bunch, and throughout the year as seen from Earth, these celestial bodies appear not only to move across the sky but also to brighten and fade in turn.

NASA, DOE fund three nuclear thermal space propulsion concepts

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy have teamed up to fund three design concepts for reactors that could become part of a nuclear thermal propulsion system.


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