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How China's Chang'e 6 minirover snapped its epic photo on the moon's far side

China has revealed details about a miniature rover tucked away on the country's pioneering Chang'e 6 lunar far side sample-return mission.

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Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi spotted at ISS (satellite photo)

Maxar's WorldView-3 satellite captured a striking image of Boeing's Starliner capsule docked to the ISS on June 7, a day after the vehicle arrived at the orbiting complex.

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China's Chang'e 6 spacecraft finds long-sought particles on far side of the moon

A European experiment aboard China's Chang'e 6 mission has recorded certain charged particles previously undetected on the moon's surface.

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The sun's magnetic field is about to flip. Here's what to expect.

As we approach solar maximum, something strange is happening to the sun's magnetic field. We explore this flip in polarity in more detail and look at the effects it could have on Earth.

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Former SpaceX employees sue company, Elon Musk for retaliation, sexual harassment

Eight former SpaceX employees are suing the company and its founder and CEO, Elon Musk, alleging sexual harassment and wrongful termination.

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NASA telescope spots 'cosmic fireworks' and faint echos from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole

NASA's NuSTAR telescope found evidence of cosmic fireworks and X-ray echoes coming from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*.

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Billion-dollar disasters have been sweeping across the US this year

There have been nearly a dozen billion-dollar disasters so far this year, with two powerful severe weather events adding to the list in May.

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'The spacecraft really reacted great:' NASA astronauts praise Boeing Starliner’s performance (video)

The first astronauts to fly Boeing's new Starliner vehicle have spoken of the spacecraft in glowing terms.

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Bark! Meow! Cluck! NASA uses lasers to beam pictures of pet dogs, cats and chickens to the ISS

NASA is testing how infrared light can transfer far more information than radio frequency communications.

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NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope captures closest super star cluster to Earth (image)

NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope has imaged Westerlund 1, the largest and closest super star cluster to Earth, in stunning detail.

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Mars meteorites reveal clues about what lies within the Red Planet

Volcanic meteorites from Mars give scientists a glimpse into the planet's structure.

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Scientists find a surprise ingredient in exoplanet cake mix — sulfur dioxide

The presence of sulfur dioxide around a hot Neptune exoplanet with an evaporating atmosphere could help us understand how it formed.

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Hubble Telescope maps high-speed 'burps' from nearby feeding supermassive black hole for 1st time

Hubble has mapped the outflow "burps" of a nearby feeding supermassive black hole-powered quasar for the first time, measuring speeds of 6.5 million mph, around 8,500 times the speed of sound.

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NASA calls off spacewalk at International Space Station due to 'spacesuit discomfort'

NASA has postponed a scheduled EVA today (June 13), as the two astronauts slated for the spacewalk were already putting on their suits.

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Cosmic 'koi fish' swims through starry sea in stunning telescope photo

The Gum 3 nebula, which resembles a swimming koi fish, is captured in a stunning new photo from the European Southern Observatory's VLT Survey Telescope.

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Radiation will be a real challenge for Mars colonists, powerful solar storm shows

A powerful solar storm in May 2024 created auroras on Mars and provided scientists with crucial information that could aid future crewed missions to the Red Planet.

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'No emergency situation' on International Space Station, NASA says after astronaut medical drill audio causes stir

It sounded like a nightmare scenario: An astronaut commander on the International Space Station in distress and a flight surgeon on Earth stuck in traffic. But it was all a simulation.

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Doctor Who 'Rogue': Who is the eponymous Rogue?

Who's the man who turns the Doctor's head in Regency England in "Doctor Who" episode 6 "Rogue"?

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Watch NASA astronauts collect microbe samples during ISS spacewalk today (livestream video)

Two NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station today (June 24), and you can watch the action live.

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This action-packed 'Borderlands' sneak peek is a chaotic blizzard of bullets (video)

Watch a new clip from director Eli Roth's upcoming live-action video game adaptation, "Borderlands."

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'Star Wars: The Acolyte' episode 3: How do the Brendok witches use the Force?

The third episode of "The Acolyte" is a long flashback that adds more layers to both the story being told and the Star Wars universe as a whole.

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Private Odysseus moon lander reveals which Earth 'technosignatures' aliens might see

By looking at Earth as an exoplanet, astronomers hope to search for similar fingerprints coming from planets around other stars, which would be a potential sign of intelligent life.

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SpaceX to launch 22 new Starlink satellites from Florida soon after weather delays

SpaceX is scheduled to launch 22 more of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast on Friday (June 14).

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Stoke Space test-fires engine for upcoming fully reusable rocket (photos)

Stoke Space has announced the first successful hot-fire engine test for its Nova launch vehicle, which the company calls the "most robust, fully and rapidly reusable medium-lift rocket in the world."

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Hubble Telescope shares stunning galactic view despite recent hardware malfunction (photo)

A gorgeous new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope, which is down to two functioning gyroscopes, captures the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3059.

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