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Large Hadron Collider gives scientists their best look yet at conditions right after the Big... The ALICE experiment at the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, has given scientists their best look yet at quark-gluon plasma, the primordial matter that filled the universe moments after the Big Bang.

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Twin NASA Control Rooms Support Artemis Safety, Success 3 Min Read
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Twin control rooms at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, are actively supporting real-time mission operations in lunar orbit as part of the agency’s Artemis II mission, helping ensure ...

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'The Expanse: Osiris Reborn' has lots of 'Mass Effect' DNA, but its developers are teasing... Owlcat Games' take on The Expanse is wearing its influences proudly, while also carving out its own hard sci-fi identity.

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The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. During lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts observed a solar ...

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'Audible screams of delight' from NASA scientists over micrometeorite impacts on the moon witnessed by... NASA scientists are thrilled with the Artemis 2 astronauts' moon flyby observations —especially the micrometeor impact flashes they saw.

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Artemis 2 astronauts spy the Milky Way | Space photo of the day for April... The image captures the glowing ribbon of the galactic plane, where the vast majority of the Milky Way's stars are concentrated.

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Artemis 2 moon astronauts capture space history — on their iPhones The Artemis 2 astronauts are capturing spectacular photos of the moon and Earth on their iPhones in space.

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Galaxy starves its supermassive black hole, loses 95% of its brightness "It is fascinating that an active galactic nucleus can change its brightness so dramatically over such a short period of time."

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Celestial Wonders in Leo 3 Min Read
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Showing a large portion of M66, this Hubble photo is a composite of images obtained at visible and infrared wavelengths. The images have been combined to represent the real colors of the galaxy.
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Walk in the footsteps of Artemis On 6 April 2026, NASA’s Artemis II Mission, powered by ESA’s European Service Module (ESM), brought humans further than ever before. But how do future astronauts train to live on the Moon, and what kind of lunar base could they create?That’s ...

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Graphene and lasers for space propulsion Lasers could one day steer solar sails and adjust a satellite’s position in outer space, thanks to graphene. An experiment on a gravity rollercoaster ride showed how this innovative material has the potential to revolutionise propulsion beyond Earth.

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Witness to history: Artemis II, lunar exploration and hope

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Witness to history: Artemis II, lunar exploration and hope NASA’s Space Launch System lifts off from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 1 April 2026, carrying the Artemis II crew (Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen) aboard the Orion spacecraft. The ...

Artificial Intelligence uncovers more than 100 new worlds in NASA data

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Artificial Intelligence uncovers more than 100 new worlds in NASA data An artist’s impression of a planet so close it to its star that it completes an orbit in 10.5 hours. Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Schaller (for STScI).
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XRISM solves gamma-Cas’s 50-year X-ray mystery

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XRISM solves gamma-Cas’s 50-year X-ray mystery Strange X-rays from the naked eye star gamma-Cas have been confirmed to come from matter falling onto a hidden white dwarf companion, resolving a fifty-year astronomical mystery.
Gamma-Cas, the central star in the familiar W-shape of Cassiopeia, has puzzled astronomers since ...

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ISS Daily Summary Report Discontinued Beginning Monday, July 29th, the IMC Daily Summary will be discontinued.
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