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First image from the world’s largest solar telescope captures the sun in unheard-of detail
A newly released image of the sun captured by the world's largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in ...
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6 Space Missions to Watch in May: Starlink, Axiom, China and Rocket Lab
May 11: SpaceX launches NASA’s TRACERS mission. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry twin synchronized spacecraft to orbit as ...
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The U.S. set the global order after WWII. Trump has other plans
From the ashes of World War II, President Harry Truman helped create global institutions that have defined international ...
The Universe’s Gold May Come From a Totally Unexpected Kind of Star
You might owe that gold necklace around your neck to a moody, long-dead star from the universe’s ancient past. According to a ...
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20-Year-Old "Forgotten" NASA Data May Solve Mystery Of Where The Universe's Gold Came From
It’s a pretty fundamental question in terms of the origin of complex matter in the universe,” Anirudh Patel said in a NASA ...
ESA’s new biomass satellite could revolutionize how we study Earth’s forests — Here’s how it works
The ESA launched Biomass aboard a Vega-C rocket earlier this week. The launch vehicle blasted off from Kourou in French ...
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James Webb Space Telescope captures thousands of galaxies in a cosmic 'feast' (image)
Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.
European Space Agency launched Biomass satellite to monitor forests and climatic studies
Earth's forests, vital for climate regulation, face threats from deforestation and degradation. To address this, ESA launched ...
The Magnetar That Forged a Planet’s Worth of Gold in Half a Second
A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just been revealed as a major ...
Webb Telescope Uncovers Star Birth Struggles in a Magnetic Maze at the Milky Way’s Core
Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...
'It's answering one of the questions of the century': Scientists may finally know where the oldest gold in the universe came from
Dead stars may have started churning out vast amounts of gold much earlier in the universe than previously thought, a new ...
James Webb captures another stunning image of thousands of distant galaxies
One of the most famous and beautiful cosmic sights shows its colors in this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The Veil Nebula is the remnant of a massive star which exploded in a supernova 10 ...