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Astronomers have discovered the farthest and oldest star ever seen, named Earendel. It shone about 900 million years after the Big Bang, and is estimated to be at least 50 times the mass of the Sun. Icarus, another blue supergiant star discovered by Hubble, held the previous record.

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A batch of dome-shaped ice volcanoes that look unlike anything else known in our solar system and may still be active have been identified on Pluto using data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, showing that this remote frigid world is more dynamic than previously known.

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US Artist Jeff Koons will be sending sculptures from his latest project "Moon Phases" to the lunar surface later this year on a spacecraft blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, his gallery said Tuesday.

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Astrophotographer Sebastian Voltmer has managed to capture photos of astronauts Raja Chari and Matthias Maurer’s during their spacewalk on the ISS, from his hometown in Germany. Here's what the images captured by the astrphotographer look like.

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Scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have discovered that V Hydrae, a dying star emitted a series of expanding smoke rings that are blown every few hundred years. The exact mechanism in which these intriguing “smoke rings” develop is still unknown.

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A US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts left the International Space Station (ISS) together on a Soyuz capsule as they headed back to Earth on Wednesday, despite heightened US-Russian antagonism over the war in Ukraine.

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NASA’s Perseverance rover is working on the Jezero Crater as scientists believe it harboured a lake and a river delta billions of years ago

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Israeli startup Brain. Space that studies data on brain activity, is set to put its gear to test on astronauts in space next week during a SpaceX shuttle flight to the International Space Station (ISS).

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Mars is four degrees north of the Moon at 3 UTC on March 28. Saturn, too, is at four degrees north of the Moon but this takes place at 12 UTC on March 28. Venus is seven degrees north of the Moon at 10 UTC on March 28.

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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon astronaut capsules have reached end of production, a company executive told Reuters, as Elon Musk's space transportation company heaps resources on its next-generation spaceship program.

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SPHEREx will focus on the background heat of the deep universe. It will try to look for water and complex organic molecules hidden within the gas and dust clouds surrounding planets and stars.

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NASA will run a live broadcast of the return to Earth of American astronaut Mark Vande Hei after a record-breaking 355-day mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Along with Vande Hei, two Russian cosmonauts — Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov — will also touch down in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz MS-19 capsule on March 30.

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Researchers have detected a mysterious set of waves coming out of the Sun that, inexplicably, appears to travel three times faster than earlier predicted. Studying these waves is important to know what is going on inside the interior regions of the sun.

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NASA plans to use multiple private spacecraft to land astronauts on the Moon under the Artemis project. The US space agency will release a draft solicitation in the coming weeks to bring a second contender into the market for the development of a lunar lander alongside SpaceX.

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Some studies say astronauts could lose about 1 percent of the mass of some bones every month in space

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NASA said a gigantic asteroid is set to make a close approach to Earth this week. Scientists have determined the size of the space rock — called 2013 BO76 — to be around 200-450 metres wide, and it will be travelling at a staggering speed of 50,000kmph.

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NASA's Juno mission made its 39th close flyby of Jupiter recently and captured an incredible image of the planet's southern hemisphere. However, a closer look at the image also revealed two more heavenly bodies nearby — Jupiter's moons Io and Europa.

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NASA has said that these exoplanets include small, rocky worlds like Earth and “super Earths” which are larger than our own. There are also gas giants several larger than Jupiter and “mini-Neptunes.” Some of these planets orbit two stars at once and others stubbornly revolve around the collapsed remnants of dead stars.

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Weeks after Moscow forced the 11th-hour cancellation of a rocket launch for British satellite venture OneWeb from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the company said it has contracted with Elon Musk's SpaceX to send its satellites into orbit.

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Blue Origin engineer Gary Lai will replace Saturday Night Live comic Pete Davidson in the space tourism company's latest flight.

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NASA has shared a stunning image of a “cosmic flower in bloom” on Instagram. The photograph showed a heavenly entity resembling a flower in the Ring Nebula, which is located about 2,000 light-years away from us, in the constellation Lyra.

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The mysterious radio signal is located roughly 4,000 light-years away from Earth

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Most rocky planets and satellites, including our Earth and the Moon, are formed or shaped by massive collisions among celestial bodies early in the solar system. When these objects smash together, they could either accumulate more material and increase their size or they can break apart into multiple smaller bodies.

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SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket for a record-breaking 12th time on Saturday (March 19), and then returned to Earth for yet another successful touchdown.

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Russia will start work on its own Mars mission given that the European Space Agency (ESA) has suspended a joint project in the wake of the Ukraine invasion.

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Three Russian cosmonauts blasted off to the International Space Station, as Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine brought the Kremlin's relations with the West to their lowest point since the Soviet era.

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space tourism service has postponed until March 29 a flight initially set for next week, while Saturday Night Live comic Pete Davidson will not be a passenger on the launch, the company said.

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NASA's massive new rocket began its first journey to a launchpad ahead of a battery of tests that will clear it to blast off to the Moon this summer.

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Eugene Parker, a pioneering American astrophysicist, has died aged 94, NASA said on Wednesday. His mathematical prediction that charged particles streamed from stars in a solar wind was met with disbelief before he was ultimately vindicated.

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NASA's next-generation moon rocket is all set to make a highly anticipated public debut — a slow-motion journey from an assembly plant to its launch pad in Florida for a final round of tests in the coming weeks that will determine how soon the spacecraft can fly.

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NASA has released the first image unified image of a star captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope was launched into space on Christmas last year and, engineers will now proceed through the remaining steps of alignment over the next six weeks, according to NASA.

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NASA on Monday said that tensions linked to the Russian invasion of Ukraine had no impact on International Space Station operations or the planned return of an American astronaut aboard a Russian capsule later this month.

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Earth could be slammed by a series of small geomagnetic storms today (March 15), as per US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the British Met Office. Based on NOAA's five-level solar storm scale (G5 being the most extreme), the storm was classified as a G1 on Tuesday (March 15). The aurora borealis — a beautiful light show in the sky se...

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According to Chari's biography on the NASA website, he graduated from Columbus High School in Waterloo, Iowa. From the US Air Force Academy in Colorado, he received a bachelor's degree in Astronautical Engineering. He was awarded a master's degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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NASA is building the rocket for its Artemis mission, which will land astronauts on the moon after half a decade – and for taking humans to Mars and beyond.

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Earth could be slammed by a series of small geomagnetic storms today (March 15), as per US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the British Met Office. Based on NOAA's five-level solar storm scale (G5 being the most extreme), the storm was classified as a G1 on Tuesday (March 15). The aurora borealis — a beautiful light show in the sky se...

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NASA on Monday said that tensions linked to the Russian invasion of Ukraine had no impact on International Space Station operations or the planned return of an American astronaut aboard a Russian capsule later this month.

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A three-meter wide astroid entered Earth's atmosphere north of Iceland just two hours after bring discovered. Most of it was vaporised before reaching the surface.

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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has captured an explosion occurring at the Cartwheel galaxy. The supernova, dubbed as SN2021afdx, has been identified as a Type II supernova.

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Elon Musk indicated in a recent tweet that the raging Ukraine-Russia war is putting his companies Tesla and SpaceX at significant inflation risks.

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A team of physicists may have solved the mystery surrounding the matter that is swallowed by black holes. These physicists considered wormholes — theoretical tunnels with two ends at separate points in spacetime — to explain the long-held mystery. Black holes are regions in space through which no matter can pass.

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A team of physicists may have solved the mystery surrounding the matter that is swallowed by black holes. These physicists considered wormholes — theoretical tunnels with two ends at separate points in spacetime — to explain the long-held mystery. Black holes are regions in space through which no matter can pass.

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North Korea's latest satellite launches can be used both for spy satellites and in a massive intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of launching multiple nuclear warheads, analysts have said.

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An asteroid which was believed to be on a collision course with Earth does not post a threat to the planet, according to the ESA. The 2022 AE1 asteroid is expected to pass by Earth at a safe distance of 10 million kilometres, more than 20 times Earth-moon distance.

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Using its Hubble Space Telescope, NASA found the galaxy that looks like a distant cousin of the Milky Way.

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A California-based startup on Thursday unveiled its full-scale, working prototype for a next-generation lunar rover that is said to do much more than NASA’s old ‘moon buggy’.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been quoted by state media as saying that the country will launch a number of reconnaissance satellites in coming years to provide its forced with real-time information on military actions by the US and its allies.

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More than 70 original NASA photographs including a celebrated image of Buzz Aldrin's moon walk taken by Neil Armstrong were sold at auction in Copenhagen for more than EUR 155,000 (roughly Rs. 1.3 crore).

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SpaceX will delay the maiden flight of Starship, the spaceship designed to transport humans to Moon and Mars, as it is switching priorities to cyber defence and overcoming signal jamming, CEO Elon Musk said.

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Elon Musk-owned SpaceX has launched another 48 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida, US, on March 9 and helped place the small satellites a little later. The rocket's first stage then returned to Earth for a smooth touchdown on a SpaceX drone ship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

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A 57-year-old man with terminal heart disease who made history as the first person to receive a genetically modified pig's heart died on Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), the hospital said.

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NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured the phenomenon during its 20th flyby in May 2019

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Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has declared that it will suspend the country's “observer” status at its facilities and freeze new agreements with Russian scientific institutes.

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The first NASA photographs taken on the Moon, including the first shot of an "Earthrise" and Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface, will be auctioned off in Copenhagen.

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SRO said it had made an interesting discovery. The Indian space agency said its Chandrayaan-2 orbiter found an important gas in the Moon's upper atmosphere, beyond the region this gas was known to exist.

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Made-in-India Petascale Supercomputer Param Ganga has been installed at IIT Roorkee.

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Hubble Space Telescope never lets us down when it comes to taking striking images of distant stars, full-fledged galaxies, and other stellar objects. Stunning us once again, the telescope has shared an image of a picturesque phenomenon occurring on a young star.

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A strange video shared by a Russian state-controlled news agency shows an artist rendering of the International Space Station breaking apart. Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin had previously suggested that the ISS could fall to the earth. The video was shared by space news blog NASA Watch on Twitter. the clip also features classical singing.

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The state of a three-tonne discarded rocket part that should have crashed into the far side of the Moon by now is not known, say astronomers. Scientists had expected the rocket part to hit the lunar surface on Friday at a speed exceeding 8,800kmph, dig out a small crater, and create a plume of smoke. But there have been no such signs so far.

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OneWeb said it was suspending all launches from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan after Moscow's space agency demanded guarantees that its technology would not be used for military purposes.

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The Sun is a mysterious place. Its atmosphere gets much hotter the farther one goes from the Sun's blazing surface. In fact, the outermost part of the Sun (corona) burns at a temperature rising to one million degrees Celsius, while just 1,500 kilometres below, the surface simmers at 5,500 degrees Celsius.

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk warned there was a high chance the company's Starlink satellite broadband service could be "targeted" in Ukraine, which has been hit by Russian invasion.

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In 2020, a team of astronomers claimed to have identified the closest black hole to Earth. The findings were then challenged by other scientists.

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NASA is offering space enthusiasts a chance to fly their names around the Moon. The US space agency has set up a website where you can add your name on a flash drive that will travel aboard Artemis I, an unmanned mission to orbit the Moon and test the Space Launch System (SLS).

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NASA has granted three more missions — Crew-7, Crew-8, and Crew-9 — to SpaceX as part of its Commercial Human Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract for crew transportation services to the International Space Station (ISS).

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Iran likely suffered another failed launch of a satellite-carrying rocket in recent days attempting to reinvigorate a programme criticised by the West, even as Tehran faces last-minute negotiations with world powers to save its tattered nuclear deal in Vienna.

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A Russian-European mission to land a rover on Mars is "very unlikely" to launch this year due to sanctions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, the European Space Agency said.

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The GOES-T spacecraft is the third in the latest series of advanced geostationary satellites, credited with revolutionising real-time weather forecasting, environmental monitoring, and hazard detections from space.

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The US National Science Foundation's (NSF) Inouye Solar Telescope is helping astronomers in this effort. The world's largest telescope recently began its first science observations and NSF shared on Twitter what it saw: a striking new sunspot image.

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