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Massive jets of material shooting from a black hole dwarf even the largest galaxies, scientists say
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A space rock is about to become Earth’s new ‘mini-moon’
Partial lunar eclipse is seen over the residential building in Moscow, Russia, September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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A partial eclipse took a ‘bite’ out of the harvest supermoon. See the stunning images
In this screengrab from video, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore attend a NASA press conference about Boeing Starliner on September 13, 2024.
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Boeing Starliner astronauts are unexpectedly spending Election Day in space. Here’s how they will cast votes
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Mannequins flew around the moon on a path astronauts could soon take. Scientists just revealed how they fared
This artist's concept depicts NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft entering interstellar space, or the space between stars. Interstellar space is dominated by the plasma, or ionized gas, that was ejected by the death of nearby giant stars millions of years ago. The environment inside our solar bubble is dominated by the plasma exhausted by our sun, known as the solar wind.
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47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft just fired up thrusters it hasn’t used in decades
The Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts returns to Earth after a five-day mission to orbit on September 15, 2024. The capsule is expected to land off the coast of Dry Tortugas, Florida. The Polaris Dawn mission reached a higher altitude than any human has traveled in five decades and conducted the first privately funded and operated spacewalk.
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SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew returns home after history-making mission
Sarah Gillis during first commercial spacewalk on September 12, 2024.
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‘A giant leap’: Why a tech billionaire’s climb outside a spacecraft was so historic
In this screengrab from video, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore attend a NASA press conference about Boeing Starliner on September 13, 2024.
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Boeing Starliner astronaut: ‘We found some things that we just could not get comfortable with’
JIUQUAN, CHINA - MAY 30: Members from China's Manned Space Agency and visitors watch as the Shenzhou-16 spacecraft onboard the Long March-2F rocket launches at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on May 30, 2023 in Jiuquan, China. The three astronaut crew of the Shenzhou-16 spacecraft will be carried to China's new Tiangong Space Station and will replace a similar crew that have been at the station for the last six months.(Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
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China’s secretive space plane has returned to Earth. Its mission? Unknown
Jared Isaacman outside the capsule.
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Four civilians on a daring SpaceX mission complete the first commercial spacewalk
Astronomers have captured a sequence of images of a star other than the Sun in enough detail to track the motion of bubbling gas on its surface. The images of the star, R Doradus, were obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a telescope co-owned by ESO, in July and August 2023. This panel shows three of these real images, taken with ALMA on 18 July, 27 July and 2 August 2023. The giant bubbles — 75 times the size of the Sun — seen on the star’s surface are the result of convection motions inside the star. The size of the Earth’s orbit is shown for scale.
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Giant bubbles on the surface of a nearby star preview the fate of our sun
TOPSHOT - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Resilience capsule, carrying the crew of the Polaris Dawn Mission, lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on September 10, 2024. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)
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SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission just made history. But the riskiest part is still to come
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Bright lights detected by NASA telescopes lead to a dancing pair of supermassive black holes
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NASA sets sights on another ‘world that might be habitable today’
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Resilience capsule, carrying the crew of the Polaris Dawn Mission, lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on September 10, 2024. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)
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SpaceX launches Polaris Dawn crew on daring excursion into Earth’s radiation belts