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Pluto: More Than Expected
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
New images beamed down from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show a stunning variety of complicated surface features on Pluto. [Read the whole story.
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Across the Universe
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
An outstanding new image shows the International Space Station crossing the sun’s face. [Read the whole story.
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Newborns’ nursery
Credit: Alma Observatory
A newfound hourglass structure reveals the presence of at least two, if not more, high-mass stars in a cloud of gas and dust. [Read the whole story.
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Moon over medieval castle
An epic moon hangs over the medieval village Monsaraz, in Portugal, in a new twilight photograph. [Read the whole story.
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Dazzling auroras
Credit: Scott Kelly (via Twitter as @StationCDRKelly)
As a Labor Day gift, Scott Kelly released beautiful photos and video of the effects of a solar storm yesterday on Earth. [Read the whole story.
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A massive tornado
Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA
A giant, swirling plume of superheated plasma churned above the surface of the sun for 40 hours last week while a NASA spacecraft looked on. [Read the whole story.
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Successfully launched
Credit: Firefly Space Systems
A company that aims to launch small satellites to orbit has successfully tested its first rocket engine. [Read the whole story.
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Water on Mars
Credit: American Geophysical Union
A giant slab of ice as big as California and Texas combined lurks just beneath the surface of Mars between its equator and north pole, researchers say. [Read the whole story.
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Changes visualized
Credit: Guinness World Records
A new image from the Guinnes World Records publishers presents the evolution of spaceships to the world. [Read the whole story.
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With great powers…
Credit: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert/CBS
Elon Musk appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” to talk about dropping nuclear bombs on Mars, the future of rocket travel, and a creepy, snakelike…Read More » robot for electric-car owners. [Read the whole story.
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