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California-based aerospace startup Relativity Space will celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8) and Women’s History Month with a new video highlighting an all-woman analog astronaut crew.

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Here’s a run-through of the trailblazing women who achieved major firsts in space.

A furnace began rotating Friday (March 5) at the University of Arizona, kicking off the casting process for the sixth of seven segments that will make up the Giant Magellan Telescope’s primary mirror.

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For decades, the words “Arecibo Observatory” was shorthand for the facility’s massive radio telescope, one of those rare instruments that reached icon status beyond its core science community.

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Black holes may not be black or holes, a new theory proposes.

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New research suggests a way to move heat around “tidally locked” alien planets: ocean currents whipping around the worlds faster than they rotate.

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