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Boeing saved its new Starliner spaceship from disaster. Here's how the...
Boeing safely landed its first CST-100 Starliner spaceship, named "Calypso," in New Mexico on Sunday.No astronauts flew aboard the Starliner. The mission was designed to show the vehicle, which NASA...
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Zero-gravity cookies and Santa space suits: Here's what it's like to spend...
There are often astronauts up in the ISS over Christmas.Despite being posted to a cramped space station, they still manage to celebrate Christmas with most of the traditional trappings.If they're lucky...
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A mysterious crunch in Earth's magnetic field created a new type of aurora...
A NASA intern discovered a new type of aurora in 3-year-old video footage of the Arctic sky.Scientists connected the never-before-seen aurora to a huge compression in Earth's magnetic field.Video from...
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The most mind-boggling scientific discoveries of 2019 include the first image...
Astronomers, anthropologists, geologists, and many other scientists made mind-boggling breakthroughs in 2019.Some highlights include work that produced the first image of a black hole, traced the...
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China's wildly ambitious future in space just got a big boost with the...
China on Friday launched a freshly redesigned heavy-lift rocket called the Long March 5 (or CZ-5).The rocket suffered a failure in July 2017, delaying China's ambitions plans to launch a space station,...
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2020 will likely be a groundbreaking year in space. Here's a calendar of the...
The coming year will be full of astronomical spectacles and technological firsts. Here's a calendar of what to expect in space in 2020.NASA spacecraft will rocket towards the poles of the sun, zip...
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An incredible animation by a planetary scientist shows how fast each planet...
A video by planetary scientist James O'Donoghue shows a slice of every planet in the solar system spinning on one giant globe.The animation provides a comparison of how quickly (or slowly) each planet...
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Elon Musk shared an animation showing what SpaceX hopes to achieve after...
SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, has been working hard since its creation in 2002 to rocket its first human passengers into space.Crew Dragon, a new vehicle SpaceX designed for NASA,...
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27 stunning photos of the cosmos taken this year
This has been a year of photographic firsts: A worldwide team of scientists published the first image of a black hole, and China captured the first photos from the far side of the moon.Space telescopes...
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NASA has big plans for the 2020s, from powerful new space telescopes to a...
NASA has big plans for this new decade: The agency is working to send humans back to the moon and search for life near Saturn.NASA's 10-year plan also includes missions to probe the metal core of a...
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Stunning images from space reveal the shocking extent of Australia's bushfire...
Australian bushfires sparked in September have spread for months, leading to a state of emergency in many regions.As of the new year, the blazes have scorched more than 14 million acres of land, killed...
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The Quadrantids brings bright fireball meteors to the sky this weekend....
The Quadrantids meteor shower, the first major celestial event of 2020, peaks on Friday night and early Saturday morning. The greatest number of meteors will be visible at 3:20 a.m. ET on Saturday,...
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Betelgeuse likely won't die as a supernova in your life. But astronomers are...
The red super-giant star Betelgeuse has dramatically dimmed, leading to speculation of an imminent supernova. But that may not happen for 1 million years.A more common but less widely known way for...
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A pair of supermassive black holes are stuck in a collision between galaxies....
Astronomers have captured a photo of two supermassive black holes caught in the collision of two galaxies.The galaxies are merging to form a new galaxy, called NGC 6240.The image suggests that the two...
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Elon Musk says a device resembling a 'UFO on a stick' will connect people to...
SpaceX rocketed another 60 internet-providing Starlink satellites at once on Monday night, adding to 120 previously launched to space.The more than 170 working satellites makes the company, founded by...
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NASA's planet-hunting telescope found an Earth-size exoplanet 100 light-years...
Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-sized planet outside our solar system, 100 light-years away.The planet, named TOI 700 d, is in its star's habitable zone and has the potential to hold liquid...
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The Egyptian pyramids may align with an ancient north star. NASA scientists...
Astronomers have long understood that a star called Thuban, which may have served as the north star for the ancient Egyptians, is actually a pair of stars.NASA astronomers recently discovered the two...
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Astronomers traced mysterious, repeating radio signals to a den of stars 500...
Astronomers have traced the origin of a repeating signal in space called a fast radio burst  to a spiral galaxy 500 million light-years from Earth.The signal came from a region of the spiral galaxy...
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A Mars settlement prototype in California may train astronauts to live on the...
A company called Interstellar Lab hopes to construct space-inspired villages.In 2021, it plans to build a 100-person colony in California's Mojave Desert to help prepare astronauts for life on...
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Young stars at the edge of the Milky Way appear to have come from 2 nearby...
Astronomers discovered a cluster of thousands of young stars appearing in the most ancient reaches of the Milky Way.The new stars seem to come from two nearby galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic...
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