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September 11, 2019
Given their name, black holes aren’t the kind of places you’d expect to see much light. But sometimes flashes of light are seen as the black holes snack on gas and dust. Earlier this year though the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy flared up in an unprecedented light show, and astronomers don’t really know why.
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A key component of NASA’s Insight Mars lander may soon be back in full swing, with a creative maneuver to free the vehicle’s heat probe after it became lodged in the soil now appearing to bear some fruit. -
By training a pair of instruments on a nearby black hole, a team of astronomers have now produced a high-frame rate visualization of violent flares at its center in the kind of detail never seen before.
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NASA has previewed the new spacesuit that will protect American astronauts on their return to the Moon as part of the Artemis missions.
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In a mission that could have important implications for global communications, NASA has launched a spacecraft to study the ionosphere and the effects of the lower atmosphere upon it.
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A British start-up has revealed plans to land a rover on the Moon that is not only the first to use legs instead of wheels, but the smallest lunar rover ever launched.
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Alexy Leonov, the world's first spacewalker, has died at age 85. He was the first person to leave a spacecraft in orbit on March 18, 1965.
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Virgin Orbit has revealed plans for the first commercial satellite mission to Mars, where a new breed of tiny probes could help study the Red Planet.
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The latest imagery relayed by India's Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter have revealed the surface in unparalleled detail.
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Virgin Galactic got a fiscal boost today as Boeing announced that it is investing US$20 million in the spaceflight company.
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NASA has released a series of VR tours exploring the push to bring crewed launch capabilities back to American soil.
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The discovery of 20 new moons around Saturn brings its total to 82 – three more than Jupiter, which was previously thought to hold the record.
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An experiment on the International Space Station reveals the potential for generating consistent supplies of meat for future deep space missions.
