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What Created The Milky Way’s Mysterious Bar? A Galactic Collision, Maybe

Some researchers think the collision may have left another mark on the Milky Way: giving our galaxy the bar that cuts across its center.

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What's it like to buzz an Artemis SLS moon rocket with a supersonic jet? NASA's Artemis 2 commander tells all (video)

When Artemis 1's moon rocket arrived on the launch pad in 2022, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman spent months gathering a group to fly over it.

Space

Firefly Aerospace scrubs Alpha rocket launch set for Dec. 20 due to weather

Firefly has scrubbed today's (Dec. 20) planned Alpha rocket launch due to weather concerns. The company has not yet announced a new target date.

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Watch Chinese astronauts get haircuts aboard Tiangong space station (video)

Shenzhou 17 commander Tang Hongbo and rookie crewmates Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin recently helped each other get haircuts aboard China's Tiangong space station.

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How the runaway greenhouse gas effect can destroy a planet's habitability — including Earth's

Scientists watched as a simulated planet was driven from a habitable Earth-like heaven to an inhospitable Venus-like hell as the result of a runaway greenhouse effect, delivering a stark climate message.

Space

Watch This Nebula 2,500 Light Years Away Light Up Like a Christmas Tree

The Milky Way delivers holiday cheer in a new image and video from NASA.

Inverse

NASA laser-beams adorable cat video to Earth from 19 million miles away (video)

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications experiment streamed a high-definition video of Taters the cat to Earth from 19 miles (31 million km) away in a groundbreaking demonstration.

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New Webb Telescope Image Reveals Uranus In A Whole New Light

A new JWST image of Uranus is shedding light on the ice giant's ring structure and mysterious storms.

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Pew! Pew! Pew! NASA's 1st successful two-way laser experiment is a giant leap for moon and Mars communications

NASA has completed its first laser link with an in-orbit laser relay system, marking a significant advancement in space communication technology.

Space

Hubble Telescope captures a galaxy's 'forbidden' light in stunning new image

The "forbidden" light of the spiral galaxy MCG-01-24-014 is captured in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope, suggesting the galaxy contradicts common rules of quantum physics.

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James Webb Space Telescope may have found the oldest black hole in the universe

The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of the universe's oldest black holes is giving astronomers some vital clues for how they came to be.

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This alien planetary system has a Jupiter world 99 times wider than Earth

Astronomers found two planetary systems centered around solar analogs containing mini-Neptune planets and a "super-Jupiter" world 99 times the size of Earth.

Space

Taters the cat stars in Nasa’s first video streamed from deep space

Cat chases laser pointer dot in 15-second video, designed to test possibility of sending streaming video through deep space

The Guardian - US

Watch Artemis 2 moon crew take a slide for NASA training (video)

The next moon astronauts practiced sliding out of their Orion spacecraft during a simulated emergency splashdown. Artemis 2 aims to fly the four astronauts in 2024.

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See the last half moon of 2023 swim with the fish of Pisces tonight

The moon reaches its first quarter moon phase on Dec. 19, crossing the sky in the Pisces constellation as the last half-moon of 2023.

Inverse

These 17 Icy Worlds Could Have Warm Oceans Full of Alien Life

With any luck, we could one day watch chilly geysers erupting from the surface of nearby (and potentially life-sustaining) exoplanets.

Inverse

New Hubble Image Captures a Galaxy In Perhaps Its Most Disheveled State

This irregular galaxy is a quintessential example that the universe is always changing.

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"Bluest of blue" stars discovered

The stars evolve to be hydrogen-poor supernovae, scientists say and were hiding in plain sight

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The longstanding mystery of Mars’ moons – and the mission that could solve it

the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will launch a mission, named “Martian Moon eXploration”, to Phobos and Deimos in September 2024. The mission will be carried by a newly designed rocket, the H-3, which is still under development.

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These scientists want to put a massive 'sunshade' in orbit to help fight climate change

A group has been formed to study and promote a space-based sunshade as a method to help fend off global climate change.

The Independent UK

Myth and meaning: discovering New Zealand’s newest dark sky reserve

The stars have long held a special resonance within Maori culture. Now, the plight of a small seabird has triggered a New Zealand community to seek dark sky status – and the results are awe-inspiring, finds Joanna Whitehead

International Business Times

The Feline Frontier: NASA Sends Cat Video From Deep Space

NASA on Monday announced it had used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away from Earth -- to send a high-definition cat video.

Space

Space weather will drag NASA's NEOWISE asteroid-hunting probe back to Earth in 2025

After more than a decade of hunting for asteroids and comets, the days of NASA's NEOWISE mission are officially numbered, thanks to our increasingly active sun.

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The rings of Uranus look positively festive in epic James Webb Space Telescope holiday photo

The observations are vital for piecing together the science objectives for a future mission to Uranus.

Space

SpaceX gearing up for 3rd Starship flight (photos)

A month after its latest liftoff, SpaceX's giant Starship rocket is getting ready to fly again.

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