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When the double boom rang out in New England over the weekend, shaking homes and sending pets fleeing,…
Hubble Captures Active Spiral Galaxy: Messier 88
A newly-released Hubble image shows Messier 88, a black hole-powered spiral galaxy that is gradually plunging toward the…
Pulsed plasma tech can enable restartable solid rocket motors
The Aerospace Corporation has been advancing a concept for a restartable solid rocket motor (RSRM), a propulsion configuration…
Astronauts could use lightning-like plasma jets to kill germs on the moon and Mars, demo hints
As astronauts prepare for long-duration missions to the moon and Mars, sustaining human life far from Earth will…
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Some of the galaxy’s most spectacular stellar nurseries resemble giant cosmic wagon wheels, with spoke-like structures that scientists…
When Rosetta sniffed the gas around Comet 67P, it found a cloud that would have smelled of rotten eggs, ammonia and bitter almonds — and hidden in that cosmic stink were some of the chemical ingredients that may have helped life begin on Earth
Between 2014 and 2016, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft flew alongside Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and analysed the gas…
APOD: 2026 June 2 – The Vela Supernova Remnant
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A false-color composite derived from NISAR data highlights vegetated areas (green), unvegetated surfaces (red), and how rapidly vegetated…
Blue Origin’s Lunar Lander Just Passed Its Toughest Test Yet
There is a chamber at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston that is, in its own way, one…
The Loudest Planet Wins – Universe Today
When astronomers discovered the first planet outside our Solar System, it was orbiting a pulsar, one of the…
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For years, the conversation around humanity’s future in space has revolved around one destination: Mars. Much of that…