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Citizen scientists spot more than 1,000 new asteroids in old Hubble Telescope photos

Citizen scientists poring over old Hubble Telescope photos discovered a thousand previously unknown asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.

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Citizen scientists spot more than 1,000 new asteroids in old Hubble Telescope photos

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Giant gamma-ray flare from 'recently deceased' magnetar lights up Cigar Galaxy

Astronomers have discovered a flare erupting from a highly magnetic "dead star" outside the solar system for the first time. The magnetar flare lit up the entire Cigar Galaxy in gamma rays.

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Giant gamma-ray flare from 'recently deceased' magnetar lights up Cigar Galaxy

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Earth got hammered by cosmic rays 41,000 years ago due to a weak magnetic field

Earth's magnetic shield weakened around 41,000 years ago, resulting in increased bombardment of our atmosphere by energetic charged particles called cosmic rays.

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Earth got hammered by cosmic rays 41,000 years ago due to a weak magnetic field

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Mirrors in space could boost solar power production on Earth. Here's how.

Reflect Orbital plans to launch a constellation of orbiting mirrors to beam sunlight to solar power plants on Earth after dark.

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Mirrors in space could boost solar power production on Earth. Here's how.

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NASA ends CloudSat Earth-observing mission after 18 years

NASA's pioneering CloudSat weather and climate mission has come to an end after nearly 18 productive years in Earth orbit.

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NASA ends CloudSat Earth-observing mission after 18 years

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Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater

Scientists turned into cosmic crime scene investigators to reconstruct the impact that sent Earth's "quasi-moon" Kamo'oalewa rocketing from the lunar surface millions of years ago.

18 hours ago

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Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater

NASA Space Station

Crew Packs Dragon, Works Neuroscience, and Preps for Spacewalk

Payload operations are underway aboard the International Space Station as a U.S. cargo craft prepares for its return to Earth at the end of the week. Meanwhile, the Expedition 71 crew continued researching neuroscience and getting ready for the year’s first spacewalk. The four NASA astronauts in the ...

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Crew Packs Dragon, Works Neuroscience, and Preps for Spacewalk

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NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Astronauts Enter Quarantine for Mission

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who are set to launch to the International Space Station on Monday, May 6, entered pre-flight quarantine in preparation for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test mission. Flight crew health stabilization is a standard process ahead of any human spaceflight ...

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NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Astronauts Enter Quarantine for Mission