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Russian Progress cargo ship docks at space station after two-day journey The Progress MS-17 freighter linked up with the Poisk mini research module on the space-facing side of the station's Russian segment on Thursday (July 1). The automated docking occurred at 8:59 p.m. EDT (0059 GMT on July 2).
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Smallest, densest white dwarf ever discovered packs the sun's mass into a moon-size stellar corpse White dwarfs are usually about the size of Earth and are the cool, dim cores of dead stars that are left behind after average-size stars have exhausted their fuel and shed their outer layers. Our sun will one day become a white dwarf, as will about 97% of all stars.
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UAE's Hope Mars orbiter spots elusive aurora on Red Planet But the new finding is outside that main science purview and occurred even before the probe's formal science mission had begun, when scientists were testing the instruments on the spacecraft. In images from one of those instruments, ...
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Newly found mega comet may be the largest seen in recorded history First spotted in archival images from the Dark Energy Survey taken in 2014, Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is now located at the equivalent distance of Uranus, roughly 20 astronomical units (AU) from the sun. (One AU is the Earth-sun distance — about 93 ...
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Supermassive black holes could host giant, swirling gas 'tsunamis' In a new, NASA-funded study, astrophysicists used computer simulations to model the environment around supermassive black holes in deep space. They found that there could be massive, tsunami-like structures forming near these ...
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Many nearby Earth-size exoplanets could be hiding in plain sight The universe is populated with stars that live in pairs, and these systems could mean double trouble for scientists wanting to find Earth-like planets. A team led by Katie Lester, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Ames Research Center, recently used ...
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SpaceX rolls giant Super Heavy rocket to launch pad for testing (video) The 230-foot-tall (70 meters) Super Heavy is the first stage of SpaceX's fully reusable Starship transportation system, which the company is developing to help humanity colonize Mars, among other tasks. The ...
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Queen Elizabeth II reviews Spire's Earth-observing satellites in Glasgow (photos) Queen Elizabeth II got a first-hand look at the benefits of satellite data in the battle against climate change during a visit to the Glasgow home of the Earth imagery company Spire this week. The visit, which took place during a string of engagements in Scotland ...
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Space miners may use rockets to harvest the moon's water ice (video) The Masten-Lunar Outpost-Honeybee Robotics team has thrown its hat into the Challenge ring with its Rocket Mining System, which would employ a rocket engine attached to an 1,800-lb. (818 kilograms) rover.
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NASA preparing to switch glitchy Hubble Space Telescope to backup hardware if needed Technicians are still considering that the problem might lie with a couple of units on the telescope's Science Instrument Command and Data Handling (SI C&DH) unit, which includes the payload computer. In particular, NASA is ...
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