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On Monday evening, Jupiter and Saturn appeared closer to each other in the sky than they have for hundreds of years in what has become known as the Great Conjunction.
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From Texas Standard:A Midland-based company has a plan to launch more than 200 very large satellites into low-Earth orbit. But NASA has a problem with…
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From Texas Standard:As private space companies begin to send more astronauts to the International Space Station, it's easy to imagine how they could one…
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After spending two months at the International Space Station, astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley returned to Earth on Sunday afternoon.Millions…
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As an astronomer, the question I hear the most is why isn’t Pluto a planet anymore? More than 10 years ago, astronomers famously voted to change Pluto’s…
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Private space flight company Blue Origin launched its New Shepard rocket Wednesday.The company – owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos – nixed plans for a launch…
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From Texas Standard:The first lunar landing was almost 50 years ago, and NASA is making plans to return to the moon. This time around, NASA Administrator…
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A team led by an undergraduate student at UT Austin discovered two hidden planets more than 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. To put…
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Blue Origin will launch its New Shepard rocket in West Texas this morning.If all goes according to plan, it will be the 10th successful launch for the…