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Watch Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket return to flight today after 10-month grounding

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket will return to flight today (March 1) after a 10-month-long grounding, and you can watch the action live.

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Watch Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket return to flight today after 10-month grounding

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Snowball Earth's liquid seas dipped way below freezing

Iron isotopes show that salty seawater pockets beneath the ice were as cold as −15°C.

3 hours ago

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Snowball Earth's liquid seas dipped way below freezing

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Moons of the solar system: A space-themed word search

Hunt for the names of the many moons surrounding our solar system's eight planets.

4 hours ago

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Moons of the solar system: A space-themed word search

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What time is the blood moon total lunar eclipse on March 3?

A total lunar eclipse will turn the moon blood red for billions across North America, Australia and East Asia.

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What time is the blood moon total lunar eclipse on March 3?

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Best AI games… as in games about AI, not slop made by AI

As AI invades everyday life, we’ve gone back and revisited the best video games with memorable AI characters, evil or otherwise.

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Best AI games… as in games about AI, not slop made by AI

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Watch the 'blood moon' total lunar eclipse on March 3 with these free livestreams

It'll be the last blood moon until New Year's Eve 2028.

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Watch the 'blood moon' total lunar eclipse on March 3 with these free livestreams

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Harnessing the Sun to Extract Oxygen on the Moon

Light shines onto a solar concentrator being tested in this Aug. 7, 2025, photo. The concentrator is part of the Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) project, which aims to produce oxygen from simulated lunar regolith for use at the Moon’s south pole. For this test, the team integrated the solar ...

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Harnessing the Sun to Extract Oxygen on the Moon

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NASA Adds Mission to Artemis Lunar Program, Updates Architecture

As part of a Golden Age of exploration and discovery, NASA announced Friday the agency is increasing its cadence of missions under the Artemis program to achieve the national objective of returning American astronauts to the Moon and establishing an enduring presence. This includes standardizing ...

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NASA Adds Mission to Artemis Lunar Program, Updates Architecture

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Chesapeake Bay Locked in Ice

Nearly 50 years ago, the first Landsat satellite captured the rare sight of Mid-Atlantic waterways frozen over.

2 days ago

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Chesapeake Bay Locked in Ice

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JPL 3D-Printed Part Springs Forward

Description With a simple motion, a jack-in-the-box-like spring designed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed the potential of additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, to cut costs and complexity for futuristic space antennas. Called JPL Additive Compliant Canister (JACC), the spring ...

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JPL 3D-Printed Part Springs Forward