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Fly along with Virgin Galactic's 1st private astronauts on landmark mission (video)

A recently released video gives us an astronaut's-eye view of Virgin Galactic's second-ever commercial spaceflight, which the company aced last week.

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NASA Rover Discovers Strange Hexagonal Patterns on Mars That Could Suggest Past Life

NASA's Curiosity rover found peculiar polygonal shapes that suggests Mars' ancient environment could have sprouted life's building blocks.

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How ordinary spacecraft sensors could improve our understanding of space weather

"It's why we never throw anything away – you don't know what secrets are being stored in the data beamed down from space."

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Space mining company developing nuclear reactor and more for moon projects

NASA astronaut Drew Feustel just joined a Canadian space mining company to map out strategy. It's the richest time we've seen in decades for space projects, he says.

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Astronomers Are Tracking A "Failed Star" Before It Disappears Behind Its Dead Sun

Astronomers aren't sure if it's a huge planet or a tiny star, but WD 0032-317b could reveal the secrets of more familiar giant planets.

Inverse

What 1st Canadian astronaut on moon mission is learning from his crewmates (exclusive)

Canada's Jeremy Hansen is gearing up for his first spaceflight — the Artemis 2 moon mission. Here's what he's learning from his three veteran NASA crewmates.

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Here’s Why Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Has Fallen Behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Blue Origin, the space firm founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is developing far more slowly than SpaceX.

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Thiruvananthapuram Observatory staff uses mobile phone to capture the Perseid meteor shower

Meteor showers occur when the Earth passes through the debris field of a comet or of an asteroid as these objects orbit the sun, flaking fragments along their path.

The Hindu

August's Mercury Retrograde is about to seriously shake things up with its own unique planetary power, but what does that mean for you?

August 2023's Mercury in retrograde comes to teach us that getting organized is not the catch-all cure, because chaos can be useful too...

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Chandrayaan-3 vs. Luna-25: Are India and Russia racing to the moon's south pole?

On one hand, this so-called race has no discernable prize — but on the other, it could set the stage for a rich future of lunar exploration.

Space

100-year 'megastorms' on Saturn shower the ringed planet in ammonia rain

Megastorms that rage across Saturn and last for centuries, shaking up the gas giant's deep atmosphere and driving ammonia rains that enrich lower layers.

Space

The Aftermath of Saturn's Giant Storms Lasts for Centuries

Saturn’s giant storms carry ammonia vapor deep into the planet’s atmosphere, where it can linger for centuries, like a footprint to mark the storm’s passage.

Inverse

Russia launches Luna-25 in a bid to return to the moon

What is Russia’s luna-25 mission? How will it impact space exploration?

The Hindu

The August new moon is ideal for spotting stunning deep sky objects tonight

The new moon on Aug. 15 will offer dark skies perfect for skywatchers to hunt out stunning Messier objects like the globular cluster M2, the Butterfly Cluster and the Wild Duck Cluster.

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Supersonic tsunamis 3 times as tall as our sun are breaking on a distant 'heartbreak star'

The enormous waves are the result of gravitational tides dragging around stellar material.

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First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don't learn from history

How humanity responds to the first contact with intelligent alien life could determine the very fate of our species. Here's what we can learn from history.

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7 Photos That Perfectly Capture the Splendor of the Perseid Meteor Shower

Skygazers around the world are getting a special treat as the Perseid meteor shower displays its "shooting stars."

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Russia's Luna-25 moon lander snaps 1st pictures from space (photos)

Luna-25, Russia's first moon lander since 1976, beamed back images of Earth and the moon on Aug. 13 while heading toward lunar orbit.

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Our Milky Way galaxy was not always a spiral. Here's how it changed shape

A century-old mystery of how galaxies shift shapes has been solved by considering "survival of the fittest" collisions between cosmic titans also revealing the Milky Way was not always a spiral.

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Soviet-Era Space Race Rekindled? Russia Aims To Reach Moon With Luna-25 Before US, India Missions

Russian Space Agency launches the uncrewed Luna-25 spacecraft to the Moon as NASA continues to work on its Artemis moon mission

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Greenland and Faroe Islands issue stamp for Danish astronaut's ISS mission

Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen's upcoming 'Huginn' mission to the International Space Station has gotten the stamp of approval from the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

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Here are the big stories from Karnataka today

Karnataka Today newsletter: Shooting for the Sun ISRO to launch India’s first solar mission, and more

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Meet the SpaceX Crew-7 astronauts launching to the ISS on Aug. 25

Four astronauts are flying to the International Space Station on Aug. 25 from NASA, Japan, Europe and Russia. Here's some info about this new crew.

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China makes Chang'e 5 moon samples open to international researchers

China is making lunar material collected by its Chang'e 5 moon mission available to research proposals by international scientists for the first time.

The Hindu

India’s first mission to study the Sun getting ready for launch: ISRO

Named Aditya-L1, it is the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun.

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