Trump campaign's 'Make Space Great Again' video surprises NASA, sparks petition
The campaign to reelect President Donald Trump launched a new “Make Space Great Again” video ad this week that has…
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Astronauts 'capture the flag' for SpaceX in race to reach space station
SpaceX has won NASA’s “capture the flag” contest for commercial space companies racing to be the first to launch astronauts…
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Ancient explosion in Milky Way's core lit up gas outside the galaxy
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is further probing the remnants of a massive space explosion visible from Earth 3.5 million years…
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Happy birthday, Falcon 9! SpaceX's workhorse rocket debuted 10 years ago today
SpaceX’s famous Falcon 9 rocket has now been flying for a decade.
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Visit the Milky Way's supermassive black hole with 'Galactic Center VR' visualization (video)
A new virtual reality experience lets you fly closely, but safely, towards the supermassive black hole embedded in the heart…
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The effect of 'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back' can still be felt after 40 years
With an epic plot twist that was shrouded in secrecy, this was the equivalent of an “Avengers” movie four decades…
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SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites and lands rocket in dazzling nighttime liftoff
SpaceX successfully launched a new batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit today (June 3) and nailed a rocket…
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Astronomers turn back time to solve Einstein ring mystery
Astronomers time traveled through archives of data to spot an object that made history in the 1980s and solve a…
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Life on Mars? Meet the new rover built to give us the answer
NASA’s Curiosity rover has shown that Mars was habitable billions of years ago. And NASA is about to launch another…
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SpaceX to launch 60 Starlink satellites for megaconstellation tonight. Here's how to watch.
SpaceX will launch its next batch of Starlink internet satellites into orbit tonight (June 3) after two weeks of weather…
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Pulsar caught binging on star before brilliant x-ray blast
You can’t rush a superdense star as it gobbles up bites of a neighbor for nearly two weeks before shooting…
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NASA's SpaceX launch is not the cure for racial injustice on Earth
The inspiration that human spaceflight brings cannot erase the anger and pain of communities around the United States who are…
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Martian moon's orbit suggests the Red Planet had a ring
A cycle of moon formation through ring systems could explain the slightly tilted orbit of Deimos, the smaller of Mars’…
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Earth from space: 'Overview effect' could help troubled country, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says
Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks we could all use a strong dose of the overview effect right now.
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SpaceX rocket returns to shore after historic astronaut launch (photos)
The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket that launched SpaceX’s Demo-2 mission arrived in Port Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday…
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Best Astronaut Books
Read about the people who push us out to the stars. Check out some of our favorite books about astronauts…
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Astronauts ring Nasdaq opening bell from space after historic SpaceX launch
It’s not every day you see astronauts in space open Nasdaq trading in New York City’s Times Square.
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June full moon 2020: The 'Strawberry Moon' brings a penumbral lunar eclipse
The full moon of June, also called the Strawberry Moon, will occur June 5 at 3:12 p.m. EDT (1912 GMT).…
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SpaceX's Crew Dragon has that 'new car smell' and flies 'totally different' than a NASA shuttle
It was “huffing and puffing” on the way to orbit, astronauts say.
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SpaceX's 1st astronaut launch was NASA's most-watched online event ever
“Launch America” drew at least 10.3 million concurrent viewers to NASA’s various online platforms, agency officials said.
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'The trampoline is working!' The story behind Elon Musk's one-liner at SpaceX's big launch
Musk’s remark after SpaceX’s first crewed launch on Saturday (May 30) references a 2014 barb by a top Russian official.
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Mysterious 'Fermi Bubbles' may be the result of black hole indigestion 6 million years ago
Twin shock waves produced by the galaxy’s central black hole could have inflated the gargantuan Fermi Bubbles about 6 million…
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Why does SpaceX's historic astronaut flight for NASA have two commanders?
SpaceX’s historic crewed mission to space has … two commanders?
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How close can you get to a black hole?
Physicists are figuring out how close you can get to a black hole before you are unlikely to escape. That…
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