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Mercury is shrinking faster than we thought. What’s going on inside of it?
Wrinkles on the surface of Mercury have revealed that the closest planet to the sun is shrinking faster than scientists thought.New research suggests that Mercury is shrinking between 10% and 30% faster than had been previously estimated. The team...
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NASA Adds Relativity Space’s Terran R to Launch Services Contract – NASA
A NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract has been awarded by the agency to Relativity Space Inc., and its Terran R launch service in accordance with the contract’s on-ramp provision. The Terran R launch service will be available to...
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Japan’s Hayabusa2 Achieves First-Ever Laser Ranging Experiment with an Asteroid
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft hit another milestone this summer, which was also a first-ever for space agencies. On Sunday, July 5th, the probe conducted the first successful...
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Anak Krakatau eruption by Sentinel-3
This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on Saturday, 5 September, shows a plume from the eruption of Anak Krakatau. The small volcanic island, in the Indonesian archipelago situated between Sumatra and Java, began spewing ash and lava...
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On this day in space! Sept. 7, 1995: NASA launches its 100th astronaut flight on space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-69 mission
On Sept. 7, 1995, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on mission STS-69. This was the 100th successful crew spaceflight mission for NASA.Endeavour lifted off from NASA's historic Pad 39A launch site at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During...
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Could life exist on Venus? Peptides survive harsh acid.
The planet Venus is arguably the most mischievous planetary body in the solar system. This is because like Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, Venus is shrouded in a thick atmosphere that can’t...
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NASA Hosts Virtual Artemis Webinar for Blind, Low-Vision Community – NASA
NASA will host a virtual webinar at 2 p.m. EDT on Friday, Oct. 2, titled “The RS-25 Engine and the Future of Artemis Missions: An Accessible Webinar for the Blind and Low-Vision Community.” This webinar is open to the public, however...
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Hubble Telescope sees spectacular ‘superbubble’ | Space photo of the day for Sept. 4, 2026
About 160,000 light-years away lies one of our Milky Way's little galactic neighbors: The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). And thanks to a new observing program, the Hubble Space Telescope has provided us with an intricate image of a...
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Week in images: 31 Aug – 04 Sep 2026
Week in images: 31 Aug - 04 Sep 2026
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NASA to Cover Progress 96 Spacecraft Launch, Docking – NASA
NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station.
The unpiloted Progress 96 resupply spacecraft is scheduled...
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OpenAI investigating ‘dozens’ of instances of agents acting improperly
OpenAI said Friday it had alerted "dozens" of global institutions that their websites may have been impacted by its...
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