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Category: 2. Space
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Spectroscopic study inspects blue straggler stars in NGC 3201
Spatial locations of the BSSs in different regions of NGC 3201. The BSSs are marked with red circles and labeled with their IDs in all the images. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI:… Continue Reading
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Chinese launch startup conducts vertical takeoff and splashdown test
HELSINKI — Chinese rocket maker Sepoch has carried out a first vertical liftoff and splashdown landing ahead of a potential orbital launch attempt later this year.
The Yuanxingzhe-1 (YXZ-1) verification rocket lifted off from an elevated…
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The hunt for mysterious ‘Planet Nine’ offers up a surprise
Does our solar system have a mysterious ninth planet? The discovery of a new dwarf world suggests not.
It’s an evocative idea that has long bedeviled…
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NASA switches to backup propellant line on Psyche spacecraft
AMSTERDAM — NASA has decided to switch to a backup propellant line on its Psyche asteroid mission to allow the spacecraft to resume use of its electric propulsion system.
The thrusters on the Psyche spacecraft, on its way to an asteroid…
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Space One and Space BD to launch satellite for Japanese military
AMSTERDAM — The Japanese military has selected companies Space One and Space BD to launch a small satellite.
The companies announced May 28 that they won a contract from the Japan Ministry of Defense for the launch of an optical imaging…
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The Squid Galaxy’s Black Hole Just Unleashed a Neutrino Storm Without the Light
A mysterious stream of neutrinos detected by a massive Antarctic observatory is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about how these elusive particles are formed in distant galaxies. The galaxy NGC 1068, instead of emitting strong gamma…
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This Mysterious “Star” Pulses Every 44 Minutes – And No One Knows Why
ASKAP J1832 is part of a rare group of space objects that pulse in radio waves every few dozen minutes. What makes it stand out is that it also pulses in X-rays, as detected by NASA’s powerful Chandra X-ray Observatory. This marks the first…
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