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Flashback to 1977. Jimmy Carter was U.S. president, Star Wars was a box office hit, and the two Voyager spacecraft departed on an historic Grand Tour of the solar system. Now, teams at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are working to keep the missions active, as they push the boun
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A new ultraviolet space telescope will fill a gap in the spectrum, bearing witness to cosmic cataclysms and probing the evolution of the early universe.
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NASA’s Swift mission will soon meet a fiery end, after more than two decades of ground-breaking science.
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Time and time-keeping is a hot topic once again, as many of us ‘fall back’ to Standard Time this coming weekend. Another time-related dilemma was also addressed this month, when a key conference did away with the leap second and the alignment of Universal Time (UT1) with Universa
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Where have all the planets gone? Late October 2026 sees a decided dearth of planets in the dusk sky, with only bashful Mercury receding from view, and Saturn fresh off of opposition. Venus, the former lucida of the evening sky is now lost from view, taking the plunge sunward. But
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NASA announced three new scientific payloads that will head to the Moon to better understand lunar hazards and resources.
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An ambitious mission will explore the moons of Mars, and bring back the first ever sample from Phobos.
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When it comes to understanding Earth and our changing environment, space is the place. Not only does it give us an overall holistic view of the planet below, but satellite-based imagery can transcend national boundaries and give us an understanding of key changes that often go un
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There’s nothing like a random celestial coincidence, turned good internet meme. In this case, the chance event is this weekend’s Full Moon, which also happens to be the second Full Moon of May, and is also the most distant and visually smallest Full Moon of the year.
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An innovative new mission will probe the mystery of how the Earth’s magnetosphere interacts with the solar wind.