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SCIENCE Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago And would have lasted longer if some code hadn't trampled on places it shouldn't It has been half a century since NASA landed on Mars with the Viking 1 lander. Viking 1, one…
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For the first time, astronomers have reconstructed the magnetic field of an entire cluster of galaxies, from its central nucleus to its outer limits. The record-breaking achievement is the product of the deepest-ever…
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This image provided by the European Southern Observatory shows the Beta Pictoris region on March 6, 2014. \| Photo Credit: ESO/AP Astronomers have discovered a faint, elusive planet orbiting a young star after more than…
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ST. PETERSBURG, July 21. /TASS/. Artificial Intelligence is already being used at the International Space Station in the test mode helping cosmonauts make daily reports and optimize work processes, Deputy CEO of the…
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Sun news for July 21, 2026. These four panels show the fiery debut of new active region AR4493. From left to right and top to bottom: the M2.5 flare at 14:36 UTC, the M1.1 flare at 19:20 UTC, and the M3.4 flare at 22:25…
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MOSCOW, July 21. /TASS/. Indonesia is in talks with Russia to build a spaceport, Russian Ambassador to Indonesia Sergey Tolchenov told TASS in an interview. "About two to three months ago, the Indonesian president…
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Many people have reported moments when the sense of being a distinct self ‘loosens’. Among astronauts, it is called the overview effect while deep-sea explorers report a similar shift sometimes called the underview…
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MOSCOW, July 21. /TASS/. Roscosmos has successfully tested a new satellite internet modem - the AT Gonets, the Russian state corporation reported. The device operated without glitches or data loss, it said. "The…
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TAMPA, Fla. — Japan’s IHI is considering adding next-generation hyperspectral satellites from Finnish startup Kuva Space to its planned 100-strong, multi-sensor sovereign Earth observation constellation. The companies…
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QUICK FACTS Where is it? Lake Skadar, Montenegro and Albania [42.201087364, 19.303135741] What's in the photo? A giant, milky-green swirl on the lake's surface Who took the photo? An unnamed astronaut on board the…
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This photograph taken on July 7, 2026 shows a Vikram-S rocket model at Skyroot Aerospace facility on the outskirts of Hyderabad. \| Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: The Vikram-1 rocket, built by the Hyderabad firm…
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WASHINGTON — Italian startup ORiS has raised 5 million euros ($5.7 million) to help it develop wireless power-beaming technology for satellites using lasers. The company, based in Turin, Italy, announced July 21 that it…
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ISRO's PSLV-C62 carrying the EOS-N1 lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. Photo: PTI \| Photo Credit: R SENTHILKUMAR Launch Vehicle A launch vehicle, commonly known as a rocket,…
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India ’s first privately developed orbital rocket has given the country’s fledgling commercial space industry a long-sought proof point, but analysts say Skyroot Aerospace must now show it can launch regularly, cheaply…
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“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. U.S. President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961…
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It's the First Quarter phase of the lunar cycle tonight, which means the Moon is halfway between the New Moon and Full Moon phases. Keep reading to see what you can spot on the Moon's surface tonight. What is today’s…
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NEW DELHI: The defence ministry has invited domestic aerospace firms to design and develop Airship-based High Altitude Pseudo Satellites (AS-HAPS) under a Rs 15,000-crore program for the Indian Air Force to provide…
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Bernard's Star, a relatively low-mass M-type (red dwarf) star located less than 6 light-years from Earth, is the Solar System's closest neighbor after Alpha Centauri. This system has proven to be a treasure trove for…
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV developer King Art Games has released the CGI cinematic trailer for the Necron faction, and it’s got aura written all over it. This latest trailer shows off the powerful Necron…
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Astronomers have found four new white dwarfs in our solar neighbourhood. Each of them were hiding behind their binary partners, larger and brighter red dwarfs. This made them appear as single stars. There have been…
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Mark August 12, 2026, in your calendar because there is not one, but two major astronomical events to look forward to. The first is a solar eclipse, which will appear total from Russia and parts of Europe, and partial…
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NATO wants eight allies to share satellite power without surrendering national control HALO aims to connect military satellites for faster communications and missile tracking NATO says isolated satellite fleets remain…
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SpaceX has pushed the next launch of its Starship megarocket back a few more days. Elon Musk's company is now targeting Thursday (July 23) for Flight 13 of Starship, the giant, fully reusable vehicle it's developing to…
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It seems as though $5.6 billion wasn’t enough. That was the news from the US Space Force on Friday, when military officials announced they were tripling the maximum value of one of the service’s National Security Space…
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NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation mission to the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Monday, Aug. 3, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Mission…
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Separated by billions of miles and shaped by very different environments, Saturn's smoggy moon Titan and the dwarf planet Pluto have, on paper, little in common. Titan is a geologically active world cloaked in an…
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Dreams of finding a sort of Earth 2.0 motivates a lot of the thinking around the search for exoplanets. But there's more to exoplanet science than searching for potentially habitable worlds. Scientists need a deeper…
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Half a century after first putting hardware down on Mars, NASA is looking to explore the Red Planet's skies. On July 20, 1976, the Viking 1 lander touched down in the western reaches of Chryse Planitia (the "Golden…
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Although general relativity is an elegant theory of gravity, we don't often need to use it. For most gravitational interactions, Newton's theory of universal gravity works just fine. Newton's model is good enough to…