Astronomy
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Voyagers 1 and 2: The Crossings That Drew the Sun’s Real Border
PASADENA, July 9 — Nearly five decades after they left Earth, the twin Voyager spacecraft continue to redefine…
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Preserving Night Sky: Human Impact on Cultural, Scientific Heritage
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., July 6 — The dark-sky movement is gaining fresh attention as satellite constellations continue to multiply…
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Astronomers Trace First Radio Signal Directly to an Exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b
Netherlands — A significant development in the field of astronomy has been announced, with the detection of radio…
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SpaceX Starship Rehearses Fueling Ahead of First Orbital Test Flight
LOS ANGELES, July 15 — The race to build a fully reusable rocket for missions to the Moon…
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Venus May Have Destroyed Its Moon, New Research Suggests
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Venus has no moon. A team of scientists now says that may not be…
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ESA’s Juice Spacecraft Returns to Earth on 28 September 2026 for a Gravity Assist
KOUROU, French Guiana — The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, known as Juice, is preparing to…
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China Plans 2028 Launch of Tianwen-3 Mars Sample-Return Mission
BEIJING, Sept. 9 — China is on track to launch its Tianwen-3 Mars sample-return mission in 2028, according…
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NASA Launches $4.3 billion Roman Telescope to Probe Dark Energy and Hunt Exoplanets
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Sept. 3 — The launch pad at Kennedy Space Center fell quiet again early Saturday…
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Satellites and Space Debris Are Brightening the Night Sky, Study Finds
Muhammad Asim, writing for InfoPulse Today from Islamabad, reports on a growing concern at the intersection of technology…
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NASA Study Finds Earth Microbes Could Survive in Shadowed Pockets Near the Moon’s South Pole
Washington, D.C., August 20 — NASA is investigating the potential survival of certain extremophile microbes on the Moon,…
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Astrophotography From Daguerre’s Failed 1839 Moon Shot to Modern CCD Imaging
MANILA, July 25 — The night sky has always drawn eyes upward, but turning that gaze into a…
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Light Pollution Hides the Milky Way From More Than a Third of the World
WASHINGTON, July 25 — Light pollution has escalated into a global environmental crisis that now affects the overwhelming…
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Satellites Dodge Debris as ESA Warns Orbit Cleanup Lags
LONDON, July 16 — The space around our planet is getting crowded, and not in a good way.…
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