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Scientists discover gigantic ‘structure’ under the surface of the moon
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The Moon has been a subject of awe and fascination for millennia, with its shape-shifting powers and enigmatic dark side. And though ...
Webb observations hint at giant asteroid collision in a nearby planetary system
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“The James Webb Telescope: Are We Alone?” on The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper offers an inside look at the most powerful ...
Ed Stone, who led NASA’s iconic Voyager project for 50 years, dies at 88
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Humanity has lost an interstellar pioneer. Ed Stone, who served as the project scientist for NASA’s groundbreaking Voyager mission from 1972 to ...
China’s lunar probe could return with answer to origins of solar system
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By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe looks set to begin its historic journey back to Earth from the ...
Asteroid’s puzzling moon likely formed after a sun-driven quake, study finds
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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers were in ...
Massive new NASA exoplanet catalog unveils 126 extreme and exotic worlds
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A new catalog of 126 worlds beyond the solar system contains a cornucopia of newly discovered planets — some have extreme and ...
Asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft fires up ion thrusters, starts cruising through space
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NASA’s mission to the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche has fired up its ion engines and is now cruising across the solar system ...
Why we’re one step closer to understanding how Earth got its oceans (op-ed)
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Space enthusiasts will know — it’s easy to get caught up in a wealth of fascinating developments, from missions to the lunar ...
Sun shoots out biggest solar flare in almost 2 decades
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US News By Associated Press Published May 15, 2024, 9:23 a.m. ET CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The sun produced its biggest flare ...
‘God of Destruction’ asteroid Apophis will come to Earth in 2029 — and it could meet some tiny spacecraft
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In just under half a decade, a 1,000-foot-wide (305-meter-wide) asteroid named after the Egyptian god of chaos and destruction, Apophis, will pass ...
