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Twin NASA Mars probes will fly on 2nd-ever launch of Blue Origin’s huge New Glenn rocket

Submit on Saturday, July 19th, 2025 19:11

Blue Origin’s powerful New Glenn rocket now has a payload for its second-ever flight —NASA’s ESCAPADE Mars mission.

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2 new NASA satellites will track space weather to help keep us safe from solar storms

Submit on Saturday, July 19th, 2025 17:11

The new TRACERS mission will track magnetic reconnection that drives particles down into Earth’s atmosphere when space weather turns bad.

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Friday night light: SpaceX launch from California sends two dozen new Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit

Submit on Saturday, July 19th, 2025 11:11

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Friday, July 18, 2025.

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Astronomers discover strange solar system body dancing in sync with Neptune: ‘Like finding a hidden rhythm in a song’

Submit on Saturday, July 19th, 2025 04:11

Astronomers have discovered an object at the edge of the solar system that is locked in a strange rhythmic dance with the ice giant Neptune.

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Newly discovered ‘cosmic unicorn’ is a spinning dead star that defies physics: ‘We have a real mystery on our hands’

Submit on Saturday, July 19th, 2025 03:11

Two teams of astronomers have simultaneously discovered a strange, spinning dead star that seems to defy our current understanding of both neutron stars and white dwarfs.

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The 2025 Southern Delta Aquariid meteor shower is upon us! Here’s what you need to know

Submit on Saturday, July 19th, 2025 02:11

The Southern Delta Aquariids are active alongside the trusty Perseid meteor shower.

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Record-breaking high-altitude shot of sun’s surface captured from one of Europe’s tallest mountains (photo)

Submit on Saturday, July 19th, 2025 01:11

“The mountaineer defies gravity; the astronomer looks up. Both seek to reach the unreachable.”

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’: Jess Bush and Martin Quinn talk feeling comfortable in their characters for Season 3 (exclusive)

Submit on Saturday, July 19th, 2025 01:11

‘I’m trying to make it as realistic as possible, so that a modern day Scottish person could see themselves in space one day.’

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