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Artist's concept of a supermassive black hole and its surrounding disk of gas.

Colliding black holes could explode in epic light flares

New research suggests when two black holes collide, not only do these epic collisions give off gravitational waves, but they may also explode with light.
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Moons In this artist's concept, a SPARROW robot uses steam propulsion to hop away from its lander home base to explore an icy moon's surface.

NASA wants to build a steam-powered hopping robot to explore icy worlds

NASA's new robot concept would be the size of a soccer ball, with instruments held in the center of a metal cage, and it would use steam-powered thrusters.
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How to watch the 24-hour Global Pride event live on Saturday

A group of Pride organizers have come together to create and host a 24-hour streamed Global Pride event in celebration of the LGBTI+ community online.
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Microsoft is closing all of its physical Microsoft Stores

Technology giant Microsoft has announced it is closing all of its physical Microsoft Stores and will be selling its products online only in the future.
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Small delay to launch of Mars rover due to ‘contamination concern’

The launch of NASA's Perseverance rover has been pushed back by two days to July 22, due to an issue related to contamination of ground support equipment.
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Engineers completed almost 200 tests on the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket by breaking the liquid oxygen tank test article.

Watch NASA destroy part of its newest rocket in structural test

NASA is making progress in the development of its troubled Space Launch System (SLS), completing its structural testing with a liquid oxygen tank test.
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Virgin Galactic completes second suborbital test flight from Spaceport America

Virgin Galactic has performed a second test flight of its SpaceShipTwo spacecraft from Spaceport America, from where it will offer suborbital tourist trips.
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This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft flying through plumes on Enceladus in October 2015.

Our galaxy may be full of ocean worlds, some of which could support life

Planets with liquid oceans may be common in our galaxy, according to new research, enlarging the pool of potentially habitable exoplanets for us to explore.
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View from Space on Virgin Galactic's First Spaceflight

Virgin Galactic will carry private astronauts and space tourists to the ISS

Space tourism company Virgin Galactic could soon be offering private flights to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a partnership with NASA.
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CERN wants to build an even larger super-collider to research particle physics

CERN wants to build an enormous new super collider to smash atoms together at tremendous speeds to learn more about the mysteries of particle physics.
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Artist's concept of the Sample Fetch Rover approaching sample tubes

NASA is making ‘fetch’ happen with its Mars sample collection rover

NASA and the European Space Agency are planning to send another rover in Perseverance's footsteps to collect up the samples from Mars and bring them to Earth.
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NGC 6302, the Butterfly Nebula

Feast your eyes on Hubble’s latest entrancing images of two planetary nebulae

New images from the Hubble Space Telescope show two beautiful and unusually dusty planetary nebulae, known as the Butterfly Nebula and the Jewel Bug Nebula.
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The energetic universe

See how beautiful the universe looks in the X-ray wavelength

Using the new eROSITA X-ray telescope, scientists have created a beautiful image showing the deepest ever view of the sky as seen in the X-ray wavelength.
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Scientists have discovered more than 4,000 planets outside our solar system

Searching for evidence of alien life using ‘technosignatures’

A NASA grant enables researchers to develop a new approach to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence by searching for evidence of technological activity.
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In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, engineers observed the first driving test for NASA's Mars 2020 rover on Dec. 17, 2019.

Final month of preparations before the launch of NASA’s Perseverance rover

There's just one month to go until the launch of NASA's Perseverance rover, which will land on Mars to search for evidence of ancient life on the planet.
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This global color mosaic of Neptune's moon Triton was taken in 1989 by Voyager 2 during its flyby of the Neptune system.

NASA wants to send a spacecraft to Neptune’s strange moon Triton

NASA has proposed sending a spacecraft to Neptune's moon Triton, to learn more about this body which hasn't been visited since Voyager 2 flew by 30 years ago.
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Amazon CEO Bezos agrees to testify to House committee

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is willing to testify to the House Judiciary Committee on the subject of Amazon's competitive practices, the company confirmed Monday.
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Artist's impression of ESA's Solar Orbiter

Europe’s Solar Orbiter makes its first close approach to the sun

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has made its first close approach to the sun, coming within 77 million kilometers of its surface.
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An illustration of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) on the lunar surface.

Space robotics company Astrobotic to transport NASA’s rover to the moon in 2022

NASA has announced that space robotics company Astrobotic has been awarded a $199.5 million contract to transport the agency's newest lunar rover to the moon.
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SpaceX's first Starlink satellite rideshare launch

SpaceX successfully completes its first Starlink satellite rideshare launch

SpaceX has successfully launched its latest batch of satellites for its Starlink program, as well as three satellites from Earth imaging company Planet Labs.
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Curiosity rover

NASA wants your help in navigating its rovers around Mars

NASA wants the public's help with mapping out the terrain on the surface of Mars, to assist in driving rovers like the Curiosity rover around the red planet.
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A user on a Zoom call with four other participants.

Zoom admits it complied with Chinese government to suspend activist users

Video conferencing software company Zoom has admitted that it suspended accounts of users in the U.S. and Hong Kong at the request of the Chinese government.
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Connie Miller with Varjo headset

Astronauts are using VR to train for the Boeing Starliner capsule

Boeing has a new tool for training astronauts on its upcoming Starliner crew capsule: Using virtual reality to recreate the spacecraft interior.
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Scientists spot cyclical pattern in mysterious cosmic radio bursts

A new study paints an unexpected picture of strange, high energy cosmic bursts called fast radio bursts, finding one that repeats in a 157-day pattern.
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Exoplanets

Astronomers spot an Earth-like planet orbiting a sun-like star

Astronomers from Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research have located a planet and star more similar to Earth and our sun than any pair found before.
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Scientists from top institutions call on Facebook to tackle misinformation

A group of 143 scientists from top U.S. research institutions has called on Facebook to prevent misinformation and hatred from spreading on its platform.
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The super-Earth exoplanet 55 Cancri e, depicted with its star in this artist's concept, likely has an atmosphere thicker than Earth's but with ingredients that could be similar to those of Earth's atmosphere.

Tiny briefcase-sized satellite spots an exoplanet and sets a new record

NASA's ASTERIA satellite wasn't originally intended to do science but it still managed to spot the exoplanet 55 Cancri e, roughly twice the size of Earth.
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Artist's concept of the Gateway power and propulsion and Habitation and Logistics Outpost, or HALO, in orbit around the Moon.

NASA awards contract to Northrop Grumman to design lunar Gateway station

NASA has announced it is awarding an $187 million contract to Northrop Grumman to design the habitation and logistics outpost (HALO) for the Gateway station.
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The European Space Agency is building its own reusable rocket

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that it's developing its own reusable rocket engine, the Prometheus, to fit European rockets like the Ariane 6.
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Engineers and technicians working on the Mars 2020 Perseverance team

Here’s how NASA’s Perseverance rover will collect samples from martian surface

If you've ever wondered how a robot would go about collecting a sample from another planet, NASA has shared more information about how the process works.
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NASA astronauts (from left) Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley

The science that the Crew Dragon astronauts are working on aboard the ISS

NASA's Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley made history last week in their test flight, and they're already being put to work on the ISS's science experiments.
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NASA’s InSight lander finally manages to bury its ‘mole’ in martian soil

NASA's InSight lander has struggled to breach the Martian surface with its self-hammering heat probe, or mole, for over a year. But now progress has been made.
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Rendering showing a planetary ring system over Mars.

Mars once had rings of its own, new research suggests

Saturn may be the planet most famous for its beautiful rings, but new research suggests that millions of years ago, Mars could have also had rings of its own.
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Facebook employees are rebelling against Zuckerberg’s inaction over Trump

Facebook employees typically shy away from criticizing the company publicly, but this week tensions around the site's responsibilities reached boiling point.
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