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To fix the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA may have to rely on a computer that hasn't turned on since 2009
Hubble engineers thought the issue was an old memory module. But that was just a symptom of the rea…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA may attempt a 'risky' maneuver to fix its broken Hubble Space Telescope this week
Engineers have been troubleshooting NASA's Hubble Telescope since it went offline in mid-June. Now,…
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…
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NASA is about to switch its Hubble Space Telescope to backup hardware - a 'risky' maneuver to save its life
Engineers have been troubleshooting NASA's Hubble Telescope since it went offline a month ago. They…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aylin W…
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Astronomers are urging NASA to build a huge space telescope to see Earth-like worlds outside our solar system
NASA is just about to launch a groundbreaking space telescope. But a once-a-decade report asks the …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA will share an 'exciting new discovery' about the moon on Monday. Listen to the announcement live.
NASA says the discovery could support deep-space exploration efforts. It will share the findings in…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Susie N…
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The Hubble Space Telescope has been offline for more than a week, and NASA isn't sure why
NASA's iconic Earth-orbiting observatory is getting old. After Hubble's last glitch over the summer…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Even the Hubble Space Telescope's backup computer is glitching now - raising new questions about what's gone wrong
Hubble has been offline for 12 days. NASA's Hubble team is starting to think this may not be an err…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China secretly tests 'reusable' spacecraft amid border tensions with India
Beijing claimed that the "successful flight marked the country's important breakthrough in reu…
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Read the 40-word letter astronaut Sally Ride wrote to NASA that led to her becoming the 1st American woman in space
She became an expert in NASA's robotic arm system, and was appointed into the commission investigat…
Sinéad Baker,Sinéad Baker,Sin…
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Elon Musk's Tesla and its 'Starman' driver just flew past Mars for the first time, 2 years after SpaceX launched the car into the void
From Musk's old Roadster — a "hood ornament" on a Falcon Heavy rocket stage — Mars would look about…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A new exoplanet is the most promising candidate for a second Earth — where a year lasts 19.5 days
NASA was looking at old Kepler data from 2018 when they realised one of the planets, Kepler 1649c, …
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NASA congratulates Indian scientists for discovering one of the farthest galaxies in the universe
The UVIT was the last of the satellite’s six payloads to come alive on 30 November 2015.…
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There are very solid engineering reasons why Jeff Bezos' rocket looks exactly like, you know, that
The billionaire and Blue Origin founder went to space in a very phallic rocket. Experts said the de…
Aylin Woodward
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SpaceX is dominating orbit with its Starlink satellites, making the risk of space traffic collision a serious hazard, industry experts say
Elon Musk's company is heightening the risk of collisions between space objects by putting more sat…
Kate Duffy
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Queen guitarist Brian May released a new song celebrating NASA's historic visit to the farthest object ever explored - take a listen
NASA's New Horizons probe, which launched toward Pluto in 2006, successfully flew past MU69 on…
Peter Kotecki,Peter Kotecki
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A planet made of melted metal could be the key for finding the next Earth
A planet that’s gassy like Jupiter with melted metals in its atmosphere, and placed right next to t…
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In a fiery swirl of orange gas, a new planet is born — witnessed by astronomers for the very first time
The pictures captured by the SPHERE instrument on the VLT are the deepest images of the AB Aur…
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Virgin Orbit successfully dropped a rocket from a jumbo jet and ignited it, but its launch failed due to an 'anomaly'
Virgin Orbit's first rocket launch failed due to an unexplained problem after it had a "clean relea…
Rachel E. Greenspan
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Habitable earth-sized planet discovered but its Sun doesn't set for over two weeks
The Earth isn’t going to last forever. Scientists continue to debate over what poses the greater …
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SpaceX has darkened its Starlink internet satellites with visors to avoid disrupting the night sky - but they can still ruin astronomers' data
There was a chance the Starlink satellite fleet would litter the night sky with hundreds of moving …