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NASA grants Voyager 2 another year of power with risky 'Big Bang' maneuverVoyager 1 is running low on power for science, but a successful energy-saving maneuver on Voyager 2 raises hope that the 50-year-old spacecraft can keep going.
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First moments of a supernova explosion captured in the most detailed observations of their kindA team of telescopes around the world, including the newly activated Vera C. Rubin Observatory, joined forces to observe the first shocking moments of a supernova explosion in unprecedented detail.
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'We are not giving up yet': Private mission to rescue NASA's Swift telescope is spinning out of controlKatalyst Space's LINK spacecraft is recovering from an unexpected spin in orbit, and will need a little more time to rescue NASA's falling Swift observatory.
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'Fireball' meteorite that smashed into New Jersey home contains ingredients of life from ancient proto-planetAmino acids and other "pre-biotic" molecules were spotted in a meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home in 2024.
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Sugar found in raspberries discovered near the center of the Milky WayErythrulose, a sugar found in raspberries, was spotted in a gas and dust cloud near the center of the Milky Way.
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NASA mission to rescue a space telescope plummeting to Earth launches into orbit
NASA's Swift Observatory is slated to enter Earth's atmosphere later this year, but the Katalyst Space spacecraft is finally on its way to boost it higher this summer
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60 million stars: Euclid space telescope snaps the most detailed photo of the Milky Way ever takenPlanet hunters and stargazers will both benefit from the Euclid space telescope's newest image, which was released after 26 hours of deep-space observations.
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An ancient piece of the moon found in Africa hints at a violent, long-ago collisionA meteorite shows evidence that an ancient crash on the moon 3.5 billion years ago was so powerful, it turned the surface molten.
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This 'crawling' robot rolled around the moon and took a historic photoA morphable moon robot operated for 100 minutes in 2024, allowing investigators to get images of an upside-down spacecraft on the lunar surface.
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James Webb telescope detects most distant dormant black hole ever, invisible in all wavelengths of lightJWST found a black hole hiding in a galaxy more than 10 billion light-years away from Earth, and used a cosmic magnifying glass to determine its mass.
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One of Neptune's 16 moons is not like the others, James Webb telescope findsNeptune has a complicated life story, and its moon Nereid might be the only one left standing from the planet’s multibillion-year history.
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'I heard gasps': Artemis II astronauts reveal inside story of their mind-bending solar eclipseIn their first visit to Canada since returning to Earth, the Artemis II astronauts opened up about the moments that blew their minds — and brought them to tears.
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NASA rover uncovers rock with 7 new organic molecules on Mars — the 'most diverse collection' ever seenNASA Curiosity rover uncovers rock with 7 new organic molecules on Mars
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NASA shuts off another Voyager 1 instrument ahead of risky 'Big Bang' maneuver to save power
After nearly 50 years in space, the two Voyager spacecraft are very low on nuclear power. Voyager 1 just shut off another instrument to save the mission.
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The moon is green and brown? Why scientists are already excited about Artemis II's historic lunar photosAs Earth reels at the beauty of Artemis II's historic lunar flyby photos, geologists working on the mission are excited for big insights about the moon.
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A 'mass migration' of stars from the Milky Way's center could explain why there's life in our solar systemThe Gaia telescope spotted more than 6,000 sunlike stars, all of which appear to have migrated from the galaxy's center more than 4 billion years ago.
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Rubin Observatory alerts scientists to 800,000 changes in the sky in one nightThe Vera C. Rubin Observatory sent scientists nearly 1 million astronomy alerts in one night, showing off changes in the sky. Eventually, the telescope is expected to reach 7 million alerts per night.
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Fresh look at Apollo moon rocks solves decades-old lunar mysteryThe lunar rocks collected by Apollo astronauts suggested the moon had a strong magnetic field. A new analysis shows the opposite.
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James Webb telescope spots giant auroras rolling through Uranus' atmosphereJWST observed Uranus for nearly a full rotation, charting the planet's upper atmosphere and magnetic environment for the first time.
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Radio signal discovered at the center of our galaxy could put Einstein's relativity to the testScientists hope to probe the nature of general relativity through a possible pulsar found in the center of the Milky Way, near a supermassive black hole.
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Star-killing black hole is one of the most energetic objects in the universeScientists say a jet from a previously studied supermassive black hole has grown brighter, becoming one of the most energetic events in the universe.
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Life-friendly molecules are leaking out of Jupiter's giant moon EuropaA new finding of ammonia on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa could have important implications for the search for extraterrestrial life.
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AI spots 'jellyfish,' 'hamburgers' and other unexplainable objects in Hubble telescope dataAI helped researchers probe the Hubble Space Telescope's archive to find strange celestial objects, including some indescribable by science.
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An ocean the size of the Arctic once covered half of Mars, new images hintMars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.
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