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NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped ...

A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape. "This caught our attention," Charles Black, the founder of the Earth and ...

More recently, they studied new data from Hubble (2021–2022) along with readings from the Gaia space probe. They found the object is about seven times the mass of the sun—too heavy to be a ...

Study of flames spread in space under microgravity Prepare the astronauts in space to deal with emergencies The study focuses on structural design and safety codes in ...

For Poilievre, who had once been seen as the next prime minister, this “Trump effect” has turned toxic. In February, Pierre Poilievre looked unstoppable. His populist tone, fierce criticism of “woke” ...

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On April 14, Katy Perry and Gayle King formed part of an all-female crew that blasted off into space for an 11-minute flight on board a rocket from Jeff Bezos' company, Blue Origin. After the six ...

Katy Perry and her all-female crew shot “across the sky” like a firework and blasted off into space on a Blue Origin rocket. Former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research ...