Spaceflight
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Boeing Starliner Launches to Space Station on NASA Uncrewed Flight Test
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off on May 19, 2022, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral…
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Ghostly Unseen “Mirror World” Might Be Cause of Cosmic Controversy With Hubble Constant
An unseen ‘mirror world’ of particles that interacts with our world only via gravity may be key to solving the…
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Physicists Explain Mysterious “Discrete Aurora” on Mars
Researchers led by the University of Iowa have learned how a type of aurora on Mars is formed. In a…
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Mystery of Universe’s Expansion Rate: Hubble Data Shows That “Something Weird” Is Going On
A representation of the evolution of the universe over 13.77 billion years. The far left depicts the earliest moment we…
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Boeing’s Starliner Safely Lands on Earth – Completing Critical Test Flight to Space Station
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft safely lands at White Sands Missile Range’s Space Harbor on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in New…
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Don’t Miss: Prime Viewing of Mars-Jupiter Conjunction
Superimposed Hubble images of Jupiter and Mars. Credit: Jupiter: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) and M.H. Wong…
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A Strange Surging Glow in a Distant Galaxy Could Change the Way We Look at Black Holes
This illustration shows the accretion disk, corona (pale, conical swirls above the disk), and supermassive black hole of active galaxy…
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NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Program Director Named One of the Most Influential People in the World by TIME
This artist’s illustration represents the scientific capabilities of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Both imaging and spectroscopy will be central…
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A Race Against Time: Quick Engineering Saves NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft is the first Mars orbiter specifically designed to study the planet’s upper…
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Coming Soon: First Images From NASA’s Webb Space Telescope
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrup Grumman NASA has announced that it will…
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