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Butterfly Shaped Hole On The Sun Appears: What Is It, How Much Bigger Than The Earth Is It, And How Will It Affect Us?

A huge butterfly-shaped hole on the Sun may cause geomagnetic storms and auroras as solar wind heads directly for Earth.

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SpaceX launches Northrop Grumman's biggest-ever cargo spacecraft on its 1st mission to the ISS (video)

SpaceX launched Northrop Grumman's new "Cygnus XL" cargo ship on its debut mission to the International Space Station on Sunday (Sept. 14).

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Russian Progress spacecraft arrives at the ISS with 2.8 tons of cargo

Russia's Progress 93 freighter arrived at the International Space Station today (Sept. 13), two days after launching atop a Soyuz rocket.

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 177 — Life on Mars?

On Episode 177 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Michael Tice to talk about a possible detection of ancient life on Mars.

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British woman among crew training for Mars simulation mission

Laura Marie is one of six research volunteers preparing to spend 378 days inside Nasa’s Mars Dune Alpha in Houston

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Astronaut preps purple kefir for a vitamin boost | On the International Space Station Sept. 8-12, 2025

As their research activities continued, the Expedition 73 crew had a busy week on the International Space Station with the departure of a cargo vehicle and preparations for the arrival of two more.

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Astronomers discover rogue black hole speeding through distant dwarf galaxy

Astronomers have discovered a rogue intermediate mass black hole blasting out jets over 3,000 light-years from the heart of its home galaxy, where it would usually lurk.

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US Air Force selects Blue Origin and Anduril for rocket cargo delivery project: report

Blue Origin and Anduril each received AFRL contracts to deliver rocket-flown cargo to any point in the world within one hour, according to a media report.

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Mars shines red next to blue Spica at sunset on Sept. 13

Red Mars meets bright Spica in the sunset sky this week.

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NASA workers plan 3rd protest at D.C. headquarters on Sept. 15 to decry Trump's science funding cuts

Workers at NASA are planning a third "Save NASA" protest at agency headquarters in D.C. on Sept. 15, as job cuts, Trump's union-busting order and FY26 budget proposals fuel fears of lasting damage.

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Is there life on Saturn's moon Enceladus? New study complicates the search

"Although this doesn't rule out the possibility that Enceladus' ocean may be habitable, it does mean we need to be cautious in making that assumption just because of the composition of the plumes."

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Don't miss the moon shine close to the Pleiades star cluster on Sept. 12

The Pleiades will appear close to the moon before midnight on Sept. 12.

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'I'll be damned if that's the story we write': Acting NASA Administrator Duffy vows not to lose moon race to China

NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy pushed back against recent claims that the agency is losing ground to China in the race back to the moon, promising the Artemis program will get astronauts there first, in a closed NASA town hall.

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SpaceX launches powerful satellite to orbit for Indonesian telecom company (video)

SpaceX launched a mission for an Indonesian telecom company tonight (Sept. 11), sending the Nusantara Lima satellite to orbit from Florida's Space Coast.

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Chance for hillwalkers to find meteorite fragments in Scotland – here's how

Hillwalkers have a “very exciting” opportunity to find meteorite fragments which scattered over Scotland this summer, researchers have said ...

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Astronomers finally find elusive, dust-shrouded supermassive black holes at ‘Cosmic Dawn’

Using the James Webb Space Telescope and the Subaru Telescope in powerful tandem, scientists have discovered the first shrouded supermassive black holes at Cosmic Dawn.

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108 million degrees! Solar flares are far hotter than thought, study suggests

New research shows that solar flares are six times hotter than thought and calls for updated sun models that could improve space weather forecasting.

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ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 winners unveiled — and the photos are truly exquisite

These breathtaking photographs are the winning entries of the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards.

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James Webb Space Telescope studies a 'failed star' named 'The Accident' to solve an old mystery of Jupiter and Saturn

A study of the "failed star" brown dwarf known as "The Accident," conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope, may reveal a solution to an old mystery of Jupiter and Saturn.

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Sun dogs, rainbows and glories are celestial wonders – and they may appear in alien skies too

These celestial wonders can tell us a lot about the state of the atmosphere at home on Earth as well as on other planets.

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Russian Soyuz rocket launches robotic Progress cargo ship with 2.8 tons of supplies toward the ISS

Russian Progress 93 freighter launched toward the International Space Station on the MS-32 mission today (Sept. 11), loaded with 2.8 tons of cargo for the station's astronaut crew.

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Infrared instruments could spot exotic ice on other worlds

Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new laboratory experiments.

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James Webb Space Telescope images enormous star shooting out twin jets 8 light-years long

The James Webb Space Telescope caught the birth of an enormous star with particle beams cutting across a stretch of interstellar space.

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SpaceX Starlink satellite photobombs orbital view of secret Chinese air base (photo)

One of SpaceX's broadband-beaming Starlink satellites has been captured overflying a top-secret airbase in China that was photographed by a private American Earth-observation satellite.

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Did NASA's Perseverance rover actually find evidence of life on Mars? We need to haul its samples home to find out, scientists say

We'll likely need to get Perseverance's samples to Earth to determine if they do indeed harbor evidence of Mars life —but the prospects of such a mission are cloudy at best.

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