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This illustration imagines what the distant object nicknamed “Farfarout” might look like in the outer reaches of our Solar System.

Object ‘Farfarout’ confirmed as the most distant object in our solar system

Astronomers confirmed the orbit of the most distant object in our solar system, and have found that at times it is even further away than previously thought.
Space News
A thermoelectric wearable device worn as a ring.

This stretchy, recyclable device turns the human body into a battery

In a concept straight out of The Matrix, researchers have developed a wearable device which uses the human body as a battery.
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This illustration shows NASA's InSight spacecraft with its instruments deployed on the Martian surface.

NASA’s InSight lander is going into hibernation for the Martian winter

NASA's InSight lander on Mars will soon powering down some of its instruments to slumber through the Martian winter.
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An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover as it fires up its descent stage engines

7 minutes of terror: A breakdown of Perseverance’s insane Mars landing sequence

NASA's incredible multipart landing sequence for the Perseverance rover involves a parachute, a jetpack, and a contraption called a skycrane.
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Astronauts on the ISS will have an out of this world view of the Super Bowl

The astronauts on the International Space Station will have a unique view of the Super Bowl, as the station is due to fly over the stadium during the game.
Space News
The radio galaxy Hercules A has an active supermassive black hole at its centre. Here it is pictured emitting high energy particles in jets expanding out into radio lobes.

Misbehaving ‘baby’ black holes could cause strange brightening of radio galaxies

A new study has looked at baby' supermassive black holes, which lie at the heart of young galaxies, and found that they may be misbehaving in intriguing ways.
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Artist's impression of the Hope spacecraft in orbit around Mars

UAE’s Hope mission to be first of three to arrive at Mars this month

It's going to be a busy month for Mars, with three separate missions all due to arrive in February. The first to arrive will be the UAE's Hope mission.
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SpaceX will launch NASA’s SPHEREx astrophysics survey mission

NASA has announced it has selected SpaceX to launch the SPHEREx mission, which will of the sky to uncover clues about the beginning of the universe.
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NASA wants to send a robotic mission to search for ice on Mars

If we ever want to send humans to Mars, we'll need to find water there. Now international space agencies want to find a way to locate it on the red planet.
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An orange glow radiates from the center of NGC 1792, the heart of this stellar furnace. Captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, this intimate view of NGC 1792 gives us some insight into this galactic powerhouse. The vast swathes of tell-tale blue seen throughout the galaxy indicate areas that are full of young, hot stars, and it is in the shades of orange, seen nearer the center, that the older, cooler stars reside.

Hubble captures an image of a busy star factory, galaxy NGC 1792

NASA has shared another beautiful image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope of the starburst galaxy NGC 1792.
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A close-up of the Apple logo on a 2020 M1 Mac Mini, with MacOS Monterey reflecting onto its surface.

Apple talks with Hyundai and Kia about electric vehicle are reportedly ‘paused’

Apple has been in talks with Hyundai and Kia about potentially collaborating to produce an electric vehicle, but these talks are now reportedly paused.
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Artist's impression of PSR J2039−5617 and its companion. The binary system consists of a rapidly rotating neutron star (right) and a stellar companion about a sixth of the mass of our Sun (left). The star is deformed by the neutron star's strong tidal forces and it is heated by the neutron stars gamma radiation (magenta). The modelled surface temperature of the star is shown in brown (cooler) to yellow (hotter) color. The radiation from the neutron star slowly but surely evaporates the star and creates clouds of plasma in the binary system, which hamper observation at radio wavelengths.

Thousands of volunteers helped identify this strange gamma-ray source

The origin of a mysterious gamma-ray source has been identified thanks to the donated computer power of thousands of volunteers.
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A black-and-white picture of Mars taken by Tianwen 1, the first snapshot from the Chinese craft.

China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft snaps image of Mars from over 1 million miles away

China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft has captured its first image of Mars from over 1 million miles away.
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Super Bowl 2020 TVs.

Best Super Bowl TV deals 2021: Cheap 4K TVs, QLED TVs, and OLED TVs

Here, we've rounded up all the best Super Bowl TV deals you can shop today, including HDTVs, 4K TVs, and 8K TVs.
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This Hubble image shows ESO 455-10, a planetary nebula located in the constellation of Scorpius. The color image is composed of near-infrared and optical observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Four filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter.

Hubble spots beautiful planetary nebula interacting with the interstellar medium

This week, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured yet another beautiful image of space: This time, of planetary nebula ESO 455-10.
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NASA will build its lunar base camp on the moon’s south pole

NASA plans to set up a long-term base on the moon, and it has narrowed down the options for locations to focus on the moon's south pole.
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TESS previously revealed that Thuban, a former North Star, is also a eclipsing binary, as illustrated here. Three such pairs make up a newly discovered sextuple star system called TYC 7037-89-1.

This bizarre system has six stars orbiting each other in an elaborate dance

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has identified a system of six stars that orbit each other in an elaborate pattern.
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Say goodbye to Earth’s ‘second moon’, because it’ll be gone soon

Last year, researchers discovered a 'minimoon' which turned out to have a story all its own. But now it's about to leave our planet's orbit for good.
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Members of the SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station participated in training in Hawthorne, California, on Jan. 11, 2021. Pictured from left are ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.

NASA and SpaceX will send next batch of astronauts to ISS in April

NASA and SpaceX have announced the date for the next launch of astronauts to the ISS using the recently-developed Crew Dragon capsule.
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FAA is reportedly investigating SpaceX over its Starship tests

Reports suggest the FAA wasn't happy with SpaceX's recent high-altitude test of its Starship prototype which ended in a dramatic explosion.
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Landing and recovery teams from Boeing and NASA take part in a crew landing dress rehearsal at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico in preparation for missions returning with astronauts from the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

NASA practices emergency procedures for crewed Boeing Starliner flights

This week, NASA tested out the emergency procedures for Boeing's Starliner capsule by simulating an injured crew member during landing.
Space News
An artist's rendering of a five-planet system around TOI-1233 includes a super-Earth (foreground) that could help solve mysteries of planet formation. The four innermost planets were discovered by high schoolers Kartik Pinglé and Jasmine Wright alongside researcher Tansu Daylan. The fifth outermost planet pictured was recently discovered by a separate team of astronomers.

Four new exoplanets discovered by young astronomers still in high school

A pair of high schoolers involved in a mentorship program at Harvard have helped to discover four new exoplanets.
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An image of Venus compiled using data from the Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974

That indicator of life on Venus may just have been sulfur dioxide

A new study suggests the gas detected on Venus last year was not phosphine but sulfur dioxide, a much more common gas with no special relation to life.
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The core stage for the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket is seen in the B-2 Test Stand during a hot fire test Jan. 16, 2021, at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

NASA to perform second test of its massive SLS rocket core

NASA has announced it will be performing a second hot fire test of its mighty Space Launch System engines after an issue cut the first test short.
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NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy took this epic "space-selfie" during a spacewalk this at the International Space Station on July 21, 2020.

How to watch the two upcoming spacewalks from the International Space Station

Two of the astronauts on the International Space Station will perform two exciting spacewalks, and we've got the details on how you can watch both events live.
Space News
A depiction of the iodine thruster developed by ThrustMe being used to change the orbit of a small satellite.

This iodine satellite propulsion system could help reduce space debris

A new iodine propulsion system for small satellites was recently used for the first time to change the orbit of a satellite.
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An artistic rendering of Kraken Mare, the large liquid methane sea on Saturn’s moon Titan.

Titan’s sea of liquid methane is deep enough for a submarine to explore

Research into the largest sea on Titan, Kraken Mare, shows it is at least 1,000 feet deep, making it a prime target for a submarine to explore.
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An artist’s impression of WASP-107b.

This strange ‘super-puff’ planet is more atmosphere than core

Planet WASP-107b has a mass just one-tenth that of Jupiter, even though it is around the same size. But that's not the only strange thing about this planet.
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Microsoft says it ‘messed up’ on Xbox Live pricing, won’t raises rates

Microsoft has backtracked on an announcement that it would raise the price of Xbox Live Gold memberships after an outcry from gamers.
Gaming News
This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. The black region in the center represents the black hole’s event horizon, where no light can escape the massive object’s gravitational grip. The black hole’s powerful gravity distorts space around it like a funhouse mirror. Light from background stars is stretched and smeared as the stars skim by the black hole.

Stuff of nightmares: Black holes one hundred billion times the mass of the sun

If the idea of a black hole millions of times the mass of our sun makes you uncomfortable then we have bad news.
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SpaceX Starship prototype is almost ready for its big high-altitude test

SpaceX is almost ready for the next test of its Starship SN9 prototype: The high-altitude test, in which the rocket will fire its engines and rise into the air.
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How to watch SpaceX launch its Transporter-1 mission today

SpaceX is gearing up for a launch for its SmallSat Rideshare Program today, when it will deploy 133 spacecraft into orbit.
Space News
Deep Space Station 56, or DSS-56, is a powerful 34-meter-wide (112-foot-wide) antenna that was added to the Deep Space Network's Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex in Spain in early 2021.

NASA has a new dish for talking to spacecraft in the far reaches of space

NASA is upgrading the network it uses to communicate with craft in deep space, with a new 34-meter-wide dish in Spain which has just been added.
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Two to three weeks after treatment, the previously paralyzed mice began to walk.

Incredible treatment allows paralyzed mice to walk again

A new treatment is giving hope that paralysis from spinal cord damage could one day be reversible.
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