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Astronaut Ken Mattingly, who launched to the moon on Apollo 16, dies at 87

For the record, Ken Mattingly never did get the German measles. The former NASA astronaut, who in 1970 was pulled from the Apollo 13 crew, died on Tuesday (Oct. 31) at the age of 87.

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Surprise! Asteroid 'Dinky' is actually a double space rock, NASA's Lucy probe reveals (photo)

NASA's Lucy spacecraft just flew by its first asteroid — and discovered that the space rock has a companion.

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NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Found Something Unexpected During Its Flyby

The team behind NASA's asteroid-tracking Lucy mission got a special treat this week.

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Swirling gas helps scientists nail down Milky Way's supermassive black hole mass

An independent mass measurement of Sagittarius A* suggests we have been right all along about how utterly massive this black hole is.

Space

Supermassive Black Holes Posses A Strange Mechanism That Prevents Overeating

A supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy violently shoves away 97 percent of nearby matter, disrupting star formation in the process.

Inverse

China's Shenzhou 16 astronauts apparently landed with a ripped parachute (photo)

China's Shenzhou 16 astronauts landed safely on Earth this week despite an apparent hole appearing in their return capsule's parachute.

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The James Webb Space Telescope's tech breakthroughs are already impacting science. Here's how

The JWST demanded software improvements that will help future telescopes and spacecraft.

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Intuitive Machines private moon lander launch set for January 2024

Intuitive Machines' lunar landing mission is again delayed two months to January 2024, but its Nova-C moon lander is ready to go.

Space

Watch China launch pair of Earth-mapping satellites on its 50th launch of 2023 (video)

A Long March 6A rocket lifted off carrying two Tianhui-5 Earth-mapping satellites on Nov. 1, marking China's 50th launch of the year.

Space

Virgin Galactic launches researchers to suborbital space on 5th commercial flight (video)

Virgin Galactic's reusable space plane VSS Unity aced its fifth commercial mission today (Nov. 2), continuing the one-flight-per-month tempo the company began this spring.

Space

Uranus Will Be Bright in the Sky This Month — Here’s How to See It

Jupiter will be there too, but that ruins the joke.

Inverse

Hot Jupiters Orbit Young Stars Because Old Ones Already Ate Them

A common type of planet (that our Solar System is surprisingly lacking), hot Jupiters don’t last long in their close-in orbits.

Inverse

Billionaire Investor Ron Baron Sees SpaceX Overtaking Tesla By 2030s

Baron predicts SpaceX's rocket reusability will drive its valuation to $500-600B, making it bigger than Tesla.

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See the world's largest telescope dwarfed by the Full Hunter's Moon (photo)

The steel skeleton of the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope is illuminated by the rising full moon in a gorgeous new photo from the European Southern Observatory.

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Many of the Universe's Remaining Mysteries Exist In This Icy, Doughnut-Shaped Region

Kuiper Belt objects are some of the last remaining unexplored objects in the universe. Finding them has proved incredibly difficult.

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NASA's Juno Spots Ingredients for Life on Jupiter’s Largest Moon

The seawater residue found on Ganymede contain types of salt and possibly organic compounds called aldehydes, a precursor to the building blocks of life.

Space

Bullying Jupiter-like planets may push 'alien Earths' away from life-friendly orbits

Planets like Earth shouldn't get too close to their bigger, bullying neighbors. Jupiter-size worlds can wreck life-friendly conditions on their smaller neighbors.

Zenger

Planet’s Remains Buried In Earth’s Interior, Shaping Its Geography, Study Shows

Remnants of ancient planet that formed Moon found buried deep inside Earth, reveals new study.

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NASA's Lucy spacecraft successfully completes 1st flyby of asteroid 'Dinky'

NASA's Lucy mission is set to visit several asteroids over 12 years, and the probe just successfully flew by target number one.

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Virgin Galactic set to launch Galactic 05 mission with research duo today (Nov. 2)

A pair of well-known scientists are flying on Virgin Galactic's fifth commercial mission, Galactic 05. The company's VSS Unity spaceplane and VMS Eve carrier aircraft are set to take off Thursday morning (Nov. 2).

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NASA's Lucy spacecraft swoops past first of 10 asteroids on long journey to Jupiter

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has encountered the first of 10 asteroids on its long journey out to Jupiter

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NASA astronauts complete 4th-ever all-female spacewalk outside International Space Station

NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara completed their first spacewalk together outside of the International Space Station, the fourth all-female EVA (extravehicular activity) in history.

Space

SpaceX, NASA delay CRS-29 cargo launch to International Space Station

NASA and SpaceX have delayed the next Dragon cargo spacecraft launch to the International Space Station by two days, to Nov. 7 for extra preparations.

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A chunk of the 'protoplanet' that made the moon may be stuck near Earth's core

The newborn Earth was struck by a Mars-size rock that helped create the moon, and the impact may have left behind continent-size remnants of the rock near Earth's core, a new study finds.

Inverse

Crash That Formed the Moon Left Bits Of An Alien Planet Inside Earth

The ancient almost-planet Theia struck Earth and formed the Moon. A new study suggests it also left two blobs deep inside our planet.

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