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Rocket returned, lightly used: Why Blue Origin's landed New Glenn booster is so clean

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket remained strikingly clean and white after two trips through Earth's atmosphere last week. Here's why the booster stayed largely char-free.

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Rocket returned, lightly used: Why Blue Origin's landed New Glenn booster is so clean

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James Webb Space Telescope spots rapidly feeding supermassive black hole in the infant universe: 'This discovery is truly ...

"This challenges our understanding of black hole and galaxy formation in the early universe."

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James Webb Space Telescope spots rapidly feeding supermassive black hole in the infant universe: 'This discovery is truly ...

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will build a 'super heavy' version of its powerful New Glenn rocket

Blue Origin plans to build an even more powerful version of its partially reusable New Glenn rocket, which aced its second-ever launch just last week.

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will build a 'super heavy' version of its powerful New Glenn rocket

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Earth and Theia smashed to birth the moon, but did they first start out as close neighbors?

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system. Earth and Theia are likely to have been neighbors."

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Earth and Theia smashed to birth the moon, but did they first start out as close neighbors?

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AI helps build the most detailed Milky Way simulation ever, mapping 100 billion stars

A record-breaking number of stars has been mapped by a new model that speeds up processing time while allowing smaller scale events, such as supernova explosions, to be incorporated into the simulation alongside larger-scale galactic processes.

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AI helps build the most detailed Milky Way simulation ever, mapping 100 billion stars

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Spot Uranus shining at its brightest this year — here's what to expect on Nov. 21

Uranus will appear opposite the sun in Earth's sky on Nov. 21.

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Spot Uranus shining at its brightest this year — here's what to expect on Nov. 21

NASA

Europa Clipper Captures Uranus With Star Tracker Camera

Description NASA’s Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield — and the planet Uranus — on Nov. 5, 2025, while experimenting with one of its two stellar reference units. These star-tracking cameras are used for maintaining spacecraft orientation. Within the camera’s field of view — representing ...

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Europa Clipper Captures Uranus With Star Tracker Camera

NASA

NASA Celebrates Five Years of Artemis Accords, Welcomes 3 New Nations

October marked the fifth anniversary of NASA and the original founders signing the Artemis Accords, as well as the recognition of Hungary, Malaysia and the Philippines joining the expanding coalition dedicated to the peaceful exploration of space. The number of countries involved now totals 59. “NASA ...

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NASA Celebrates Five Years of Artemis Accords, Welcomes 3 New Nations

NASA

NASA Sets Coverage for Crew Launch to Join Station Expedition

NASA astronaut Chris Williams will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Thursday, Nov. 27, accompanied by cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, where they will join the Expedition 73 crew advancing scientific research. Williams, Kud-Sverchkov, ...

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NASA Sets Coverage for Crew Launch to Join Station Expedition

NASA

NASA Fuels Discovery from Earth to Sky: One Crayon at a Time

A collaboration between the NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative (NESEC) and Earth to Sky (ETS) – an exciting, growing partnership between NASA, the National Park Service, and other federal, state, and local organizations – is facilitating the implementation of a simple, yet incredibly effective ...

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NASA Fuels Discovery from Earth to Sky: One Crayon at a Time

NASA

NASA Progresses Toward Artemis II Moon Mission

As 2026 nears, NASA continues moving forward to launching and flying Artemis II, the first crewed mission under the Artemis campaign, no later than April next year. NASA's Orion spacecraft, complete with its launch abort system escape tower, is now integrated with the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket ...

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NASA Progresses Toward Artemis II Moon Mission

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NASA, Aerospace Corporation Study Sharpens Focus on Ammonia Emissions

The pungent gas contributes to fine airborne particulate pollution, which endangers human health when inhaled and absorbed in the bloodstream. A recent study led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and the nonprofit Aerospace Corporation shows how high-resolution ...

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NASA, Aerospace Corporation Study Sharpens Focus on Ammonia Emissions

NASA Space Station

Crew Works on Stem Cells, CubeSats; Prepares for Soyuz and Commercial Crew Launches

Stem cells and CubeSat installations were the main research focus aboard the International Space Station on Thursday. The Expedition 73 crew also collected microbe samples for analysis, configured Earth observation gear, and replaced hoses on a treadmill.

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NASA Space Station

Crew Works on Stem Cells, CubeSats; Prepares for Soyuz and Commercial Crew Launches

NASA Space Station

Station Orbiting Higher as Exercise Research and Maintenance Continue

The International Space Station is orbiting higher today after the Progress 93 cargo spacecraft, docked to the Zvezda service module’s aft port, fired its engines for over 14 minutes, 7 seconds at 8:04 a.m. EST on Wednesday. Back on the orbital outpost, the Expedition 73 crew focused its science activities ...

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NASA Space Station

Station Orbiting Higher as Exercise Research and Maintenance Continue

NASA Space Station

Heart Health, Stem Cells, and Physics Keep Crew Busy on Tuesday

Life science and physics topped the research schedule aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday as the Expedition 73 crew studied heart health, stem cells, fluid physics, and spacecraft fire safety. The orbital residents also completed work on a spacesuit and inspected ventilation and electrical ...

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NASA Space Station

Heart Health, Stem Cells, and Physics Keep Crew Busy on Tuesday

New York Times Space

The Moon Was an Inside Job

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun.

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New York Times Space

The Moon Was an Inside Job

New York Times Space

NASA Releases Images of Comet 3I/ATLAS Passing by Mars

With the government reopened, the space agency at last released pictures captured by a fleet of government spacecraft of an object that came from beyond our solar system.

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NASA Releases Images of Comet 3I/ATLAS Passing by Mars