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The ISS should be deorbited 'as soon as possible,' Elon Musk says: 'Let's go to Mars'

The International Space Station "has served its purpose" and should be deorbited "as soon as possible," SpaceX chief and close Trump adviser Elon Musk said today (Feb. 20).

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover discovers evidence of ripples from an ancient Red Planet lake (images)

Rippled textures in a shallow lake bed on Mars indicate that ice-free liquid water once pooled here.

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Life as we don't know it: Some aliens may need sulfuric acid like we need water

If we're looking for life as we don't know it, the best solvent out there may be concentrated sulfuric acid — the stuff that's floating around in the clouds of Venus.

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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket debris creates dramatic fireball over Europe, crashes in Poland (video)

A SpaceX rocket stage fell to Earth early Wednesday morning (Feb. 19), blazing a trail of fire through European skies.

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Hubble Telescope sets its eyes on cosmic cotton candy near the Tarantula Nebula (photo)

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most luminous and active star-forming regions in our galactic backyard.

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin unveils crew for 10th space tourism launch

Blue Origin just revealed the identities of five of the six crewmembers for NS-30, its next suborbital space tourism mission. The company has not yet announced a launch date.

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'Impossible' pair of vampire stars discovered by Einstein Probe's X-ray vision

A flash of X-ray light has revealed the existence of an odd couple of stars, a massive star and a white dwarf, that shouldn't really exist together.

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NASA massively lowers impact risk of 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 to 1 in 360

Breathe a sigh of relief! NASA has dropped the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 360, just days after it became the highest-risk asteroid since records began.

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Musk and Trump repeat false 'stranded' Starliner astronauts narrative, but they are not stranded

Elon Musk and President Trump continue to advance the narrative that NASA astronauts from Boeing's Starliner mission were "abandoned" in space.

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What is dark energy? Exploding white dwarf stars may help us crack the case

Astronomers have studied 3,600 supernovas to discover diversity in exploding white dwarf stars, a vital tool in the investigation of dark energy.

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Leaving Pluto in the dust: New Horizons probe gearing up for epic crossing of 'termination shock'

NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is gearing up to cross the "termination shock," an exotic boundary in the outer solar system, as early as 2027.

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Black holes snacking on small stars create particle accelerators that bombard Earth with cosmic rays

Gamma rays detected by NASA's Fermi spacecraft indicate that microquasars are powered by small black holes slowly devouring stars. They pack quite a punch, bombarding Earth with cosmic rays.

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Over 1,000 NASA employees saved from dismissal as Trump downsizes federal workforce

After the space community braced for a brutal shake-up at NASA this week, a last-minute decision on Tuesday (Feb. 18) spared over 1,000 agency employees on probationary status from being dismissed.

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The next giant leap? How jumping could help astronauts train for trips to the moon and Mars

Scientists suggest adding jumping exercises to astronauts' training regimens, to minimize the health effects of long space missions, such as moon and Mars trips.

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Largest-ever discovery of 'missing link' black holes revealed by dark energy camera (video)

Using a revolutionary dark energy camera, astronomers have discovered the largest haul of "missing link" intermediate-mass black holes ever seen, but there should have been more.

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Want a workout? Try walking to the top of the world's largest telescope (photo)

The world's largest telescope continues to take shape on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert.

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Blue Ghost moon lander lowers its orbit to fly closer to the lunar surface (video)

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander lowered its orbit around the moon Tuesday (Feb. 18), sending back gorgeous footage from just over the lunar surface.

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7 planets are aligned in the night sky right now. But what's that mean for science?

In February 2025, all seven of our planetary neighbors will be visible from Earth. So what does such a planetary alignment mean for science? Well, not much — unless you're an interplanetary spacecraft.

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I want to believe — but yet another massive search for alien technosignatures just turned up nothing

Hunting for alien civilizations isn't a matter of just waiting around for them to show up; it's the business of combing through enormous volumes of data to look for peculiar signals.

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Boeing plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on NASA's SLS moon rocket: reports

Boeing is preparing to lay off roughly 200 employees working on the Space Launch System rocket as it braces for the possibility that its contracts with NASA may not be renewed after they end in March.

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'Captain America: Brave New World' introduces adamantium into the MCU, but did it come from space in the comics?

No Weapon X yet, but Captain America: Brave New World marks the arrival of adamantium to Earth-616 in a departure from its comic book origins.

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Japan's Resilience moon lander aces lunar flyby ahead of historic touchdown try (photo)

Resilience, a lunar lander built by Japanese company ispace, zoomed within a mere 5,220 miles (8,400 kilometers) of the moon on Feb. 14.

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Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later

On the 95th anniversary of its discovery, Pluto remains one of the most beloved and enigmatic worlds in our solar system, whether you call it a planet or not.

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Rocket Lab launches sharp-eyed Earth-observation satellite to orbit (video)

Rocket Lab launched a high-resolution imaging satellite for the company Blacksky toward low Earth orbit this evening (Feb. 18).

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SpaceX Starlink mission lands rocket off coast of The Bahamas for 1st time (video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 Starlink satellites today (Feb. 18) and then landed the Atlantic Ocean near The Bahamas —a first for the company.

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