Space
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Trump Signs Memorandum to Accelerate U.S. Space Launches
Washington, August 20 — President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on August 20 aimed at transforming U.S. space…
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Webb Reads Methane In The Air Of A Saturn-Like World
NEW YORK, July 17 — Astronomers have a powerful new tool for reading the chemical fingerprints of planets…
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Voyager’s Golden Record: A 1977 Time Capsule Aimed at Extraterrestrial Listeners
ITHACA, New York, Aug. 5 — A 12-inch disc made of gold-plated copper is carrying the story of…
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NASA’s Deep Space Network: Three Sites That Keep Distant Spacecraft Like Voyager 1 in Touch
PASADENA, August 5 — The NASA Deep Space Network (DSN), a global system of vast radio antennas, continues…
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NASA Shuts Off Voyager 1 Instrument to Save Power and Keep Spacecraft Operating
PASADENA, August 5 — From the quiet precision of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory here in California, a signal…
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NASA’s MAVEN Finds Solar Wind Stripped Mars of Its Atmosphere and Surface Water
BOULDER, August 4 — Our celestial neighbor, Mars, once held flowing rivers and perhaps even an ocean, a…
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China’s Micius Quantum Satellite: What the $100 Million Mission Achieved Before Re-entry
BEIJING, Aug 4 — The newest benchmark in quantum networking did not come from orbit. Data from a…
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Webb Spectroscopy Tests How Early Galaxies Grew, and Some Massive Candidates Fall Short
BALTIMORE, Aug. 3 — The record from the James Webb Space Telescope now shows galaxies whose light has…
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James Webb Space Telescope Launched From Guiana Space Centre In 2021
GUIANA SPACE CENTRE, August 3 — The sheer ambition of space exploration often hinges on the reliability of…
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NASA, ESA, CSA Collaborate on James Webb Space Telescope
PARIS, Aug. 3 — The shift is subtle but unmistakable: the era of the single-agency space triumph is…
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Webb Telescope’s First Deep Field Image of SMACS 0723 Reveals Thousands of Galaxies
WASHINGTON D.C., August 3 — Four years ago, on July 11, 2022, humanity received an extraordinary gift: the…
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FCC Clears Xona to Deploy Commercial Navigation Constellation Beside GPS
WASHINGTON, July 16 — On the ground in the race to build America’s next-generation navigation network, a small…
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JWST Finds Massive Early Galaxies, but Astrophysics May Explain Them
GREENBELT, August 3 — The universe’s oldest secrets are getting a fresh look, thanks to the incredible vision…
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SpaceX Falcon 9: Design, Development Setbacks and the Reusable First Stage
HAWTHORNE, August 1 — The Falcon 9 launch vehicle, a significant innovation from SpaceX, continues to demonstrate the…
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Astronomer Bill Gray Tracked Falcon 9 Booster’s Lunar Collision Path
PASADENA, August 1 — The burgeoning global space economy, fueled by rapid commercial expansion, increasingly depends on precise…
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Rocket Stage Forecast to Hit Moon’s Far Side in March 2022 Was Not the DSCOVR Launcher
CAPE CANAVERAL, Aug. 1 — The first known unintentional impact of human-made space debris with the Moon involved…
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Experts Say Starship’s Heat Shield Is the Obstacle to Rapid Reuse, and NASA Has Not Helped
HAWTHORNE, Calif., July 27, 2026 — On the test stands in McGregor, Texas, engineers fire up another sequence:…
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Former NASA Engineer Calls Starship Heat Shield a Dead End for Rapid Reuse
The Thermal Protection Bottleneck BOCA CHICA, Texas, July 27 — Starship, the fully reusable super-heavy-lift launch vehicle SpaceX…
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Musk Calls Starship Heat Shield Problem Solved After Flight 13 Test
HAWTHORNE, July 27 — SpaceX’s Starship is designed to fly three times a day, per vehicle. But right…
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Google Discloses $94.1 Billion SpaceX Stake, About 6% of the Company, in Q2 Filing
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 26 — Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, quietly disclosed in a regulatory…
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NASA-Linked Group Wants Next-Generation Telescopes to Hunt for Alien Technology
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 26 — The hunt for Dyson spheres, those hypothetical megastructures that would wrap a star…
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How the Penrose Process Could Draw Energy From a Spinning Black Hole
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 26 — A theoretical energy source first sketched out in 1969 is now being re-examined…
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Amazon’s Project Kuiper Launches First Satellites to Take On Starlink
SEATTLE, July 26 — The shift is here: satellite broadband has gone from a niche play to a…
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Scientists at MIT Workshop Weigh How to Spot Dyson Spheres Around Black Holes
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In a closed workshop this past November, a small group of the world’s top astrophysicists…
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