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Blue Origin Cuts 10% of Its Employees
In an email to employees, the company’s chief executive said the company had become bloated during its growth in recent years.
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‘Ultrahigh Energy’ Neutrino Found With a Telescope Under the Sea
It’s the most energetic particle of its kind ever discovered, and scientists have no idea where it came from.
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Why the Odds of an Asteroid Striking Earth in 2032 Keep Going Up (and Down)
NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.
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NASA’s VIPER Gave Up a Ride to the Moon. This Startup’s Rover Took It.
After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to the lunar surface.
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Grand Canyons on the Moon Were Made in a Matter of Minutes
Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which are each about the size of Earth’s Grand Canyon.
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NASA Astronaut Recruitment Faces Trump’s Moves Against D.E.I.
The government space agency has vocally promoted diversity and inclusion for decades, even during the first Trump administration.
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Overlooked No More: Annie Easley, Who Helped Take Spaceflight to New Heights
She broke barriers at NASA and contributed to its earliest space missions as a rocket scientist, mathematician and computer programmer.
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Life’s Building Blocks Lurked Inside NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Samples
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.
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Trump Orders ‘Iron Dome’ for U.S., but Freezes Funds for Nuclear Protection
The United States is estimated to have spent more than $400 billion on the kinds of antimissile goals that the president now says will provide “for the common defense.”
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SpaceX Starship Rocket Is Lost During 7th Test Launch, Causing Debris to Fall
While Elon Musk’s spaceflight company repeated a spectacular catch of its powerful booster stage, the upper stage experienced a catastrophic malfunction.
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How the Northern Lights and Digital Photography Have Boosted Astrotourism
As astrotourism booms, the northern lights get a boost from digital photography.
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Sync Your Calendar With the Solar System
Never miss a rocket launch, meteor shower, eclipse or other event that’s out of this world.
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Dennis Overbye on Retiring from The New York Times: A Solstice of the Soul
For his next trick, your cosmic correspondent for the past quarter-century will (try to) retire.
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Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off.
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William R. Lucas, Official Blamed in Challenger Tragedy, Dies at 102
The strong-willed director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, he failed to pass on warnings from engineers that the space shuttle launch was at risk.
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Will That Asteroid Strike Earth? Risk Level Rises to Highest Ever Recorded.
The threat from space rock 2024 YR4 has surpassed that of Apophis, an asteroid feared by scientists 20 years ago. The danger remains low, but experts are estimating the damage that could be done.
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As Trump Slashes Federal Jobs, Alabama’s ‘Rocket City’ Braces for Impact
In Huntsville, a city fueled by defense and aerospace, there is anxiety but also cautious optimism that federal investment may still come its way.
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 Could Strike Earth, Researchers Say, But the Odds are Small
Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December 2032.
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Elon Musk Suggests SpaceX Will Accelerate Return of NASA Astronauts
The founder of SpaceX said President Trump had asked his company to return two astronauts aboard the space station to Earth “as soon as possible.” NASA said it would do that “as soon as practical.”
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Earth’s Mini-Moon Was Probably a Piece of Its Real Moon
Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.
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