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China launches 3 astronauts to Tiangong space station on Shenzhou 18 mission (video)

A Long March 2F rocket lifted off from China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center today (April 25), carrying the Shenzhou 18 spacecraft and its three-person crew into orbit.

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During the solar system's chaotic era, Jupiter may have helped form Earth's moon

EL chondrite meteorites come from the Athor family of asteroids, the progenitor of which was dumped in the asteroid belt by the migrating gas giants between 60 million and 100 million years after the birth of the solar system.

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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Venus

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Watch 2 cosmonauts conduct spacewalk outside the ISS today

Two Russian cosmonauts are scheduled to spend about seven hours working outside the International Space Station today (April 25), and you can watch the action live.

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Huge energetic flare from magnetic neutron star detected

Scientists have now detected the most distant-known instance of one of these eruptions, called a giant flare, from a magnetar residing in a galaxy called Messier 82, or M82.

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Watch China launch 3 astronauts to Tiangong space station today

China plans to launch the three-astronaut Shenzhou 18 mission to its Tiangong space station today (April 25), and you can watch the action live.

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Buried in the Cat's Paw Nebula lies one of the largest space molecules ever seen

Scientists have discovered one of the largest molecules ever seen in space in the Cat's Paw nebula. The discovery hints at how chemical complexity emerges as stars form.

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Hubble telescope celebrates 34th anniversary with an iridescent Dumbbell Nebula (image)

Take a fresh look at the iconic Dumbbell Nebula on occasion of the Hubble Space Telescope's 34 years in space.

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The mystery of how strange cosmic objects called 'JuMBOs' went rogue

Scientists may have discovered how JuMBOs, strangle binary objects found in Orion, may have gone rogue while staying gravitationally bound. The discovery may shake up theories of planet formation.

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China's Tiangong space station damaged by debris strike: report

Two spacewalks this winter fixed the power supply of China's Tiangong space station, which was damaged by a space debris strike, state media reported.

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Japan's SLIM moon lander defies death to survive 3rd frigid lunar night (image)

Japan's SLIM lunar lander has now survived three week-long nights on the moon, braving temperatures as low as minus 274 degrees Fahrenheit, despite not being designed to last one!

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April full moon has us tickled pink in these gorgeous photos

The Full Pink Moon rose on April 23, 2024, putting a damper on chances of catching any Lyrid meteors but providing a gorgeous target for cameras around the globe.

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China reveals Shenzhou 18 astronauts ahead of April 25 launch to Tiangong space station (video)

China has unveiled the three-person crew for its Shenzhou 18 mission, which is set to launch toward the Tiangong space station on Thursday (April 25).

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Citizen scientists spot more than 1,000 new asteroids in old Hubble Telescope photos

Citizen scientists poring over old Hubble Telescope photos discovered a thousand previously unknown asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.

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Giant gamma-ray flare from 'recently deceased' magnetar lights up Cigar Galaxy

Astronomers have discovered a flare erupting from a highly magnetic "dead star" outside the solar system for the first time. The magnetar flare lit up the entire Cigar Galaxy in gamma rays.

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NASA officially headed to Saturn moon

Visiting this mysterious ocean world could revolutionize what we know about alien life on other planets

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China’s Space Station Will ‘Definitely’ Welcome Foreign Astronauts in Near Future

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NASA ends CloudSat Earth-observing mission after 18 years

NASA's pioneering CloudSat weather and climate mission has come to an end after nearly 18 productive years in Earth orbit.

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Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater

Scientists turned into cosmic crime scene investigators to reconstruct the impact that sent Earth's "quasi-moon" Kamo'oalewa rocketing from the lunar surface millions of years ago.

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Building rockets and looking for life on Venus: Q&A with Rocket Lab's Peter Beck

Space.com caught up with Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck recently to talk about the company's ambitious plans for the future, which include a private life-hunting mission to Venus.

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Slovenia signs NASA's Artemis Accords for cooperative space exploration

Slovenia signed NASA's Artemis Accords on April 19, becoming the 39th country to affirm their cooperation in future space endeavors to the moon and beyond.

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ESA graduates the 'Hoppers': Europeans, Australian pass astronaut basic training

The "Hoppers" — five European astronauts and the first astronaut from the Australian Space Agency — are now ready to "hop" into their first flight assignments, having completed basic training.

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Watch the Full Pink Moon 2024 bloom in the night sky tonight

The Full Pink Moon of April 2024 steals the show tonight as it crosses the nighttime sky from dusk until dawn.

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Rocket Lab launches new NASA solar sail tech to orbit (video, photos)

Rocket Lab launched a South Korean Earth-observation satellite and new NASA solar-sailing tech this evening (April 23).

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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites, aces 300th rocket landing (photos, video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent 23 more of the company's Starlink internet satellites skyward today (April 23).

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