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Why SpaceX IPO plan is generating so much buzz
More than 20 years after founding SpaceX, the record-breaking company that transformed the global space industry, Elon Musk is planning to take the enterprise public.
Space Exploration
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Comet 3I/ATLAS displays greenish hue in new Gemini North telescope images
Gemini North captured new images of Comet 3I/ATLAS after it reemerged from behind the sun on its path out of the solar system. The data were collected during a Shadow the Scientists session—a unique outreach initiative ...
Planetary Sciences
Dec 12, 2025
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SpaceX launches 1st of 5 missions on tap in next 8 days on Florida's Space Coast
SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are combining for a busy week of rocket launches on the Space Coast.
Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2025
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Musk signals plan to launch IPO for SpaceX
Elon Musk has signaled plans to soon seek a public stock listing of SpaceX, confirming a report that links the strategic shift to a near-term need for more capital.
Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2025
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The monster hiding in plain sight: JWST reveals cosmic shapeshifter in the early universe
In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big Bang—a cosmic Jekyll and Hyde that looks like any other galaxy when viewed in visible and even ultraviolet ...
Astronomy
Dec 11, 2025
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Parker Solar Probe spies solar wind 'U-turn'
Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details about how solar magnetic fields responsible for space weather ...
Astronomy
Dec 11, 2025
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Earth's atmosphere may help support human life on the moon
The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's atmosphere have landed in the lunar soil, creating a possible source of life-sustaining substances for ...
Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2025
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Rare image of Tatooine-like planet is closest to its twin stars yet
In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar system is already rare, finding ...
Astronomy
Dec 11, 2025
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Ultra-hot super-Earth shows signs of thick atmosphere despite extreme conditions
Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky planet outside our solar system.
Astronomy
Dec 11, 2025
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Astronomers examine nuclear star cluster of nearby galaxy Messier 74
By analyzing the data from the PHANGS-MUSE survey, an international team of astronomers has inspected a nuclear star cluster of the nearby large spiral galaxy Messier 74. The new study presented Dec. 3 on the arXiv pre-print ...
Unlocking the sun's magnetic secrets: AI-powered mapping reveals intricate 3D details
Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are helping reshape how scientists study the sun. The UH-led team has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can map the sun's magnetic ...
Astronomy
Dec 11, 2025
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Small galaxies may buck the black hole trend, Chandra finds
Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a recent study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This contrasts with the common idea that nearly every galaxy has one of these ...
Astronomy
Dec 11, 2025
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Astronomers challenge 50-year-old quasar law
Compelling evidence that the structure of matter surrounding supermassive black holes has changed over cosmic time has been uncovered by an international team of astronomers.
Astronomy
Dec 11, 2025
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Swarm detects rare proton spike during solar storm
The European Space Agency's Swarm mission detected a large but temporary spike of high-energy protons at Earth's poles during a geomagnetic storm in November. It did this not with the scientific instruments for measuring ...
Astronomy
Dec 11, 2025
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Astronomers create first map of the sun's outer boundary
Astronomers have produced the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the sun's atmosphere, a shifting, frothy boundary that marks where solar winds escape the sun's magnetic grasp. By combining the maps ...
Astronomy
Dec 11, 2025
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NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade
NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade.
Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2025
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The solution to finding an atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1 e
The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered almost a decade ago about 40 light-years from Earth. The TRAPPIST-1 system contains seven terrestrial ...
Planetary Sciences
Dec 11, 2025
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Reading the 'light fingerprints' of dead satellites
There are already tens of thousands of pieces of large debris in orbit, some of which pose a threat to functional satellites. Various agencies and organizations have been developing novel solutions to this problem, before ...
Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2025
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Einstein's theory comes wrapped up with a bow: Astronomers spot star 'wobbling' around black hole
The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in the night sky. Their study, presented in Science Advances, reports on the very first observations ...
Astronomy
Dec 10, 2025
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The race to mine the Moon is on, and it urgently needs some clear international rules
The vision of mining space for resources is no longer science fiction. The moon's proximity to Earth and the presence of precious resources make it an increasingly attractive prospect for exploitation.
Space Exploration
Dec 10, 2025
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