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North America is surrounded by 4 storms and wildfire smoke in this satellite view

A stunning new satellite image captures four different storms churning in the skies above North America as the continent nears the peak of hurricane season.

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Svetlana Savitskaya: Second woman in space, 1st female spacewalker

Former cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya was the second woman to go to space, the first woman to perform a spacewalk and the first woman to go to space twice.

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How can we take pictures of Earth-like exoplanets? Use the sun!

If we ever want to take pictures of an Earth-like exoplanet, we need to think bigger than the biggest telescopes on Earth.

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'The Colony' trailer shows the struggle for survival upon returning to a once-ravaged Earth

Set in the distant future, a female astronaut, shipwrecked on the long-decimated Earth, must decide the fate of the wasteland's remaining populace in "The Colony."

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Virgin Orbit is buying 2 more rocket-launching planes

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has rolled into a patch of ground that could shed considerable light on the Red Planet's climate history.

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Physicists give weird new phase of matter an extra dimension

The new phase of matter behaves like a solid and a frictionless liquid at the same time

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NASA awards $415 million for private space stations amid ISS transition questions

Arianespace will launch dozens of internet satellites for the communications company OneWeb today (Aug. 19), and you can watch the liftoff live.

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It’ll Soon be Possible to Make Satellite Phone Calls With Your Regular Phone

The solar system's largest planet reaches opposition today (Aug. 19).

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Russia will launch a film crew to the International Space Station Tuesday and you can watch it live

NASA and Star Trek are teaming up to celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry today in a webcast event.

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Here’s Perseverance, Seen From Space

On Aug. 9, Maxar Technologies' WorldView-3 satellite snapped a great shot of SpaceX's "Starbase" facility, where the company is building and testing its Starship deep-space transportation system.

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Gaia Finds Ancient Satellite Galaxy Pontus Embedded in Milky Way

The Mercury-bound BepiColombo spacecraft recorded the sound of the solar wind at Venus as it flew just 340 miles above the planet during a maneuver designed to adjust its path.

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The 1st trailer for 'Ripout,' a sci-fi horror shooter, is full of alien monsters

The game launches in 2022.

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin targeting Aug. 25 for next spaceflight

Blue Origin is targeting Aug. 25 for the next flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle, company representatives announced today (Aug. 18).

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Siberian wildfires double greenhouse gas emission record: This is how they look from space.

Wildfires in Siberia have produced 800 megatons of carbon dioxide since the beginning of June, nearly doubling last year's record, according to estimates.

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Lego Education unveils Spike Essentials to teach kids STEAM subjects

Lego Education has unveiled Spike Essentials as part of its Lego learning system to help teachers and encourage students in STEAM subjects.

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Astronauts Took A Fly-around of the International Space Station. Here are Their Stunning Pictures

You can guide Mono on his journey with 38% off.

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SpaceX Starlink satellites responsible for over half of close encounters in orbit, scientist says

SpaceX's Starlink satellites are involved in about 1,600 close encounters between two spacecraft in low Earth orbit every week, according to available data. That’s about 50% of all such incidents.

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What is the speed of light?

The speed of light puts a speed limit on matter, lets us peer back into the history of our universe, and has deep implications for physics and space travel.

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The August 2021 full moon is, somehow, a Blue Moon. Here's why.

We usually associate the term Blue Moon with a month containing two full moons. That won't happen in August, yet this month brings a Blue Moon nonetheless.

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Chinese astronomers eye Tibetan Plateau site for observatory project

Chinese astronomers hope to establish a major observatory program on the roof of the world, the Tibetan Plateau, with new research arguing for pristine observing conditions nestled in the uplands.

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Intuitive Machines picks SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch its moon lander for NASA

A Houston-based company that NASA selected to ferry upcoming lunar experiments to the moon has hired SpaceX to launch its lunar landing mission.

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