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How do you fire someone into the sun?
We live in changing times. While we once flippantly threw villains to the lions, now we seek to fire them into the sun.
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NASA faces another shift in its leadership—and in its vision
NASA is facing increasingly sharp challenges as it pursues its goal of landing astronauts on the moon again before this decade is out—and as the space agency braces for another leadership change, it's clear that the year ...
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Leonids meteor shower: When and where to see the celestial show
Stargazers across the United States are in for a treat this weekend as the annual Leonids meteor shower lights up the night sky.
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Image: A robotic helping hand at the ISS
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim took this photo on July 23, 2025, as the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above a cloudy Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. Visible in the image is the 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic ...
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Nov 14, 2025
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Chinese astronauts return from space station after delay blamed on space debris damage
Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation's space station Friday after more than a week's delay because the return capsule they had planned to use was damaged, likely from being hit by space debris.
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Nov 14, 2025
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Twin Mars orbiters launched on New Glenn rocket to study Martian atmosphere
Blue Origin launched its huge New Glenn rocket Thursday with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars.
Space Exploration
Nov 14, 2025
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When space junk comes home
Early one February morning in 2025, Adam Borucki discovered something extraordinary behind his warehouse in Poland: a charred metal tank, roughly 1.5 meters across. It had crashed from space during the night, part of a SpaceX ...
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Nov 13, 2025
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Let's go on an ESCAPADE: NASA's small, low-cost orbiters will examine Mars' atmosphere
Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That's the future that NASA's ESCAPADE, or escape and plasma acceleration and dynamics explorers, mission will help unleash: one where ...
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Nov 13, 2025
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Space debris struck a Chinese spacecraft. How the incident could be a wake-up call for international collaboration
China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft's return from its Tiangong space station in early November 2025.
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Nov 13, 2025
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It's time to give the moon its own time
Tracking time is one of those things that seems easy, until you really start to get into the details of what time actually is. We define a second as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a cesium atom. However, according to Einstein's ...
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Nov 13, 2025
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Blue Origin set for space launch after repeated delays
Third time's the charm? Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin will try once again Thursday to launch its New Glenn Rocket.
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Nov 13, 2025
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Race for first private space station heats up as NASA set to retire ISS
With NASA's International Space Station set to come out of service in 2030, American aerospace firm Vast has stepped into a frenzied race for the world's first commercial space station.
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Nov 13, 2025
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The hidden danger of lunar micrometeoroid storms
The moon has no significant atmosphere, no weather, and no wind. Yet it faces an invisible bombardment more relentless than any terrestrial storm, a constant rain of micrometeoroids, tiny fragments of rock and metal traveling ...
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Nov 12, 2025
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Solar storms delay the launch of Blue Origin's big new rocket with Mars orbiters for NASA
Intense solar storms responsible for breathtaking auroras across the U.S. delayed the launch of Blue Origin's big new rocket Wednesday.
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Nov 12, 2025
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Solar storms bring colorful northern lights to unexpected places
Solar storms brought colorful auroras to unexpected places on Tuesday night, and there could be more to come.
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Nov 12, 2025
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The path to Mars: Small, unsexy problems
This article is a speculative piece based on the European Space Agency (ESA) Strategy 2040 plan for the future of space exploration. Dr. Orson Sutherland, a program manager responsible for Mars exploration at ESA, shared ...
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Nov 12, 2025
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Google's plan for space-based computing
The sun produces more power than 100 trillion times humanity's entire electricity generation. In orbit, solar panels can be eight times more productive than their Earth-bound counterparts, generating energy almost continuously ...
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Nov 12, 2025
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Severe solar storms may trigger widespread auroras and disrupt communications this week
Space weather forecasters issued an alert on Tuesday for incoming severe solar storms that could produce colorful northern lights and temporarily disrupt communications.
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Nov 12, 2025
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Why is it so hard to take a good photo of the moon with my phone?
It's a beautiful clear night. The stars are out and the moon looks breathtaking against the sky, so you reach for your phone to take a snap. The results are, to be blunt, disappointing.
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Nov 11, 2025
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China plans to go to the moon by 2030. Here's what's known about the mission and why it matters
More than 50 years after the last time humans walked on the moon, China is working steadily toward landing its astronauts on the lunar surface.
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Nov 11, 2025
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