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Trading Spaces: How Swapping Stars Create Hot Jupiters

Star clusters tend to host more hot Jupiters than average, but why? A team of astronomers have proposed a new solution, and it involves a lot of swapping of stellar neighbors.

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Meteorites Bathed in Gamma Rays Produce More Amino Acids and Could Have Helped Life get Going on Earth

Our modern telescopes are more powerful than their predecessors, and our research is more focused than ever. We keep discovering new things about the Solar System and finding answers to long-standing questions. But one of the big questions we still don’t have an answer for is: ‘How did life on Earth begin?’

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NASA's Mars Perseverance rover bottles up 1st dirt samples

NASA's most advanced robotic geologist to date has collected its first samples of broken rocks and dust from the Red Planet's surface.

Live coverage: SpaceX counting down to sunset launch with 40 OneWeb satellites

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Falcon 9 rocket will launch 40 broadband satellites for OneWeb. Follow us on Twitter.

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Virgin Orbit delays historic launch from United Kingdom over licensing: reports

Virgin Orbit will wait on making its first-ever launch from the United Kingdom due to delays in obtaining licensing for its mission at Cornwall, according to several media reports.

James Webb Space Telescope's iconic image reveals surprises about planetary nebula

The James Webb Space Telescope's image of the Southern Ring Nebula has revealed a few surprises in this snapshot of a stellar death.

SpaceX Launches ‘Starshield’. A Quiet Announcement With A Huge Potential

SpaceX revealed their new service called Starshield. It is a “secured satellite network for government entities” and is aimed at “supporting national security.” The project looks similar to Starlink, but instead of providing service to end users and businesses, Starshield is aimed at government entities. Here’s what we know so far.

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Rising Earth

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NASA’s Orion spacecraft, powered by ESA’s European Service Module, shares a stunning new take on ‘Earth rise’ following the return powered flyby of the Moon.  

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Space-grown plants brought home by China's Shenzhou 14 mission undergo analysis (video)

Chinese scientists are analyzing rice, Thale cress and other plants after the country's Shenzhou 14 astronaut crew cultivated samples in space and brought them back to Earth.

Best FPV drones: ready to fly kits for beginners and experienced pilots

Enter the exciting world of FPV with our guide to the best ready to fly FPV drone kits for beginners and experienced pilots.

NASA astronaut Stan Love on the digital-age Artemis cockpit inside the Orion spacecraft

Space.com talked with NASA astronaut Stanley Love at Kennedy Space Center during the launch of Artemis 1 to discuss how he and others are working to design a spacecraft cockpit for the digital age.

China will launch 2-in-1 asteroid deflection mission in 2025

China is now looking to launch its first planetary defense test mission a year earlier than planned and on a larger rocket.

Tsunamis Carried Boulders Across Ancient Martian Ocean

Long-ago impacts tossed up the floors of an ancient ocean on the Red Planet and carried debris to the landing site of NASA’s Viking 1 lander.

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The Orville started as a spoof, but it has evolved into so much more

The Orville might have started off borrowing from Star Trek, but season 3 raids it's own history, with stunning results.

Save up to $900 on these festive Unistellar telescope deals

You can save $900 on Unistellar's eVscope 2 telescope and there's $600 of their eQuinox model this holiday season too.

Watch SpaceX launch 40 OneWeb internet satellites Thursday

SpaceX will launch 40 internet satellites for the communications company OneWeb on Thursday (Dec. 8) at 5:27 p.m. EST (2227 GMT), and you can watch the action live.

At a powerful radio telescope, the hunt for signals from intelligent extraterrestrial life is on

As part of the Breakthrough Listen project, the MeerKAT radio telescope will search a million nearby stars for signals from technology that could indicate intelligent extraterrestrial life.

Watch the moon eclipse Earth in stunning video from Artemis 1's Orion spacecraft

Artemis 1's uncrewed Orion capsule captured a jaw-dropping view of the moon crossing in front of Earth on Nov. 28, 2022.

Colliding Neutron Stars can Generate Long Gamma-ray Bursts

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic recurring events in the Universe. Only the Big Bang was more energetic, and it was a singularity. Astronomers see GRBs in distant Universes, and a lot of research has gone into understanding them and what causes them.

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NASA loses contact with ICON atmosphere-studying satellite in Earth orbit

NASA's ICON atmosphere-studying satellite, well into an extended mission in space, fell silent on Nov. 25. Troubleshooting is ongoing, but the spacecraft has not responded to calls from home.

“Early Dark Energy” Could Explain the Crisis in Cosmology

In 1916, Einstein finished his Theory of General Relativity, which describes how gravitational forces alter the curvature of spacetime. Among other things, this theory predicted that the Universe is expanding, which was confirmed by the observations of Edwin Hubble in 1929. Since then, astronomers have looked farther into space (and hence, back in time) to measure how fast the Universe is expanding – aka. the Hubble Constant. These measurements have become increasingly accurate thanks to the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and observatories like the Hubble Space Telescope.

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