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SpaceX just launched the 1st-ever nuclear-powered commercial satellite
A satellite aboard SpaceX's Transporter-17 rideshare mission is the first commercially designed and operated spacecraft to harness nuclear energy in orbit.
The sun's atmosphere is way hotter than its surface. Scientists may finally know why
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has found charged grains of dust being carried on magnetic plasma waves in the Sun's outer atmosphere, providing a new clue to the mystery of the Sun's corona is so hot.
SpaceX launches 81 satellites to orbit from California, lands rocket on ship at sea
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 81 payloads to orbit from California early Tuesday morning (July 7), then landed on a ship at sea.
Even astronauts in space saw America 250 fireworks on the Fourth of July. See their ISS view of Los Angeles (video)
The U.S. just celebrated its 250th birthday, and the Americans living off the planet had a great view of some of the parties down below.
More clues surface about the origins of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
Observations of the fast-moving interstellar comet with the Very Large Telescope in Chile support similar observations made by the JWST.
NASA just found a planet 'hiding' in TESS spacecraft data, all thanks to Einstein
NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the solar system, and it is thanks to Einstein.
Black holes buried in mysterious 'little red dot' galaxies could blast cosmic ghosts at Earth
Mysterious "little red dots" discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope could harbor buried black holes that fire high-energy neutrinos through the cosmos.
Unidentified metal spheres found on Australian beach are 'debris from a foreign rocket body', space agency says
The Australian Space Agency is warning residents of Queensland to be on the lookout after metallic-looking spheres, possibly space debris, appeared on a beach.
'Acceleration without fuel:' Revolutionary superconducting thruster harnesses Earth's magnetic field in 1st orbital test
A novel space thruster using superconducting magnets completed its first orbital tests. The technology could in the future propel spacecraft using just the power of the sun.
