NASA satellite watches January’s polar vortex photo of the day for Feb. 4, 2026
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US lab uses lasers, heat to map neptunium for deep-space nuclear fuel
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Asteroid Nuking Could Save Earth and It’s No Longer Just Sci-Fi!
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Jaw-dropping raw footage shows spacecraft ripping through the atmosphere as it reenters Earth at Mach 25
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James Webb Space Telescope finds most distant galaxy ever detected: 'It looks nothing like what we predicted' – Space
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NASA finally acknowledges the elephant in the room with the SLS rocket
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Yes, JWST should take the deepest deep-field image ever
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SpaceX hits €1.06tn after xAI merger as Musk consolidates empire
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A possible rocky exoplanet referred to as a ‘cold Earth’ that could orbit on the outer edge of…