Science & Astronomy

Is Mercury retrograde messing with you? Think again.

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Is Mercury retrograde messing with you? Think again.

Mashable August 31, 2024

Mercury is a little-known, still mysterious world. But one thing is certain. Mercury, the closest planet to...

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Debris From When NASA Smashed Asteroid Appears to Be Headed Back Toward Earth

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Debris From When NASA Smashed Asteroid Appears to Be Headed Back Toward Earth

futurism-com August 31, 2024

Brace yourselves. Space Balls When NASA deliberately smashed the asteroid Dimorphos with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test...

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Archaeologists find huge, 2,500-year-old Egyptian astronomy observatory

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Archaeologists find huge, 2,500-year-old Egyptian astronomy observatory

Space.com August 30, 2024

An apparent record-breaking ancient astronomy “observatory,” complete with a sundial, was uncovered recently during a temple dig...

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SETI searches for alien life in over 1,000 galaxies using unexplored radio frequencies

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SETI searches for alien life in over 1,000 galaxies using unexplored radio frequencies

Space.com August 30, 2024

A search of more than 1,300 galaxies for extraterrestrial signals has helped to constrain expectations as to...

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Boeing Starliner astronauts will spend at least 240 days stuck in space — is that a new record?

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Boeing Starliner astronauts will spend at least 240 days stuck in space — is that a new record?

Space.com August 30, 2024

On Saturday (Aug. 24), NASA announced its long-awaited plan to bring astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams...

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NASA’s Perseverance rover begins ambitious ascent up a Mars crater rim

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NASA’s Perseverance rover begins ambitious ascent up a Mars crater rim

Space.com August 30, 2024

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has started off on its most ambitious ascent yet — up the rim...

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No, NASA’s DART asteroid impact probably won’t spark meteor showers on Earth — but maybe on Mars

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No, NASA’s DART asteroid impact probably won’t spark meteor showers on Earth — but maybe on Mars

Space.com August 30, 2024

Debris from the impact of NASA’s DART spacecraft with the asteroid Dimorphos could reach Earth and Mars,...

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Early galaxies weren’t mystifyingly massive after all, James Webb Space Telescope finds

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Early galaxies weren’t mystifyingly massive after all, James Webb Space Telescope finds

Space.com August 30, 2024

Black holes may be behind why the newborn universe appeared to possess more huge galaxies than scientists...

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‘Doomed’ comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS survives brush with sun — may be visible to naked eye this fall

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‘Doomed’ comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS survives brush with sun — may be visible to naked eye this fall

Space.com August 30, 2024

We are now coming down the home stretch regarding comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. First sighted at China’s Purple Mountain...

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Blue Origin’s powerful New Glenn rocket to debut Oct. 13 with NASA Mars launch

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Blue Origin’s powerful New Glenn rocket to debut Oct. 13 with NASA Mars launch

Space.com August 29, 2024

The inaugural flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn heavy-lift rocket, which will send NASA’s ESCAPADE mission on...

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