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NASA pauses $16 billion Hubble space telescope that pinned down age of the universe due to ‘glitch’

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Dr. Sarah Adams

One of Hubble’s gyroscopes is acting up, so the telescope went into safe mode Scientists are figuring out what to do, but ...

Satellites spot clusters of ‘spiders’ sprawled across Mars’ Inca City (photo)

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Seasonal, spider-like features have been spotted sprouting through cracks in Mars’ surface. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter captured new images ...

Christina Koch holds home state dear; hopes to inspire future explorers

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Dr. Sarah Adams

RALEIGH, N.C. — Before she set a record in space and before she even became an astronaut, Christina Koch was raised in ...

Watch 2 gorgeous supernova remnants evolve over 20 years (timelapse video)

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Dr. Sarah Adams

When we picture what’s in deep space, we often think of static images — colorful composites of distant objects like nebulas and ...

Ozone hole: Why Antarctic wildlife is being ‘sunburnt’

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Dr. Sarah Adams

By Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News 5 hours ago Image source, Getty Images Image caption, A hole appears in the ozone ...

Laser on NASA’s Psyche asteroid probe beams data from 140 million miles away

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Late last year, NASA scientists pressed start on a highly anticipated space mission. Basically, they launched a spacecraft toward an asteroid that ...

NASA still doesn’t understand root cause of Orion heat shield issue

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Enlarge / NASA’s Orion spacecraft descends toward the Pacific Ocean on December 11, 2021, at the end of the Artemis I mission. ...

Wow! Private space-junk probe snaps historic photo of discarded rocket in orbit

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Space junk just got an epic close-up. The ADRAS-J satellite, operated by the Japanese company Astroscale, successfully maneuvered to within a few ...

Mars probe spots “spider” shapes in Martian Inca City

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Dr. Sarah Adams

The European Space Agency reported a surprising finding in a region of Mars known as Inca City, in which dark shapes resembling ...

Inside NASA’s 5-month fight to save the Voyager 1 mission in interstellar space

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Dr. Sarah Adams

After working for five months to re-establish communication with the farthest-flung human-made object in existence, NASA announced this week that the Voyager ...