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Scientists Share Results From NASA's Twins Study

5:38am April 12, 2019

During astronaut Scott Kelly's nearly year-long space flight on the International Space Station, NASA scientists measured physiological changes in him and his earthbound twin, Mark Kelly.

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People in the Israeli city of Netanya watching images taken by the camera of the Israel Beresheet spacecraft of the moon surface before it crashed.

Israeli Robotic Moon Landing Fails In Final Descent

5:53pm April 11, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

Israeli scientists are studying what caused an engine failure in the closing minutes of what they hoped would be a historic lunar landing.

Scientists Have Taken The First Photo Of Something That's Invisible — A Black Hole

4:26pm April 10, 2019

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

The swirling mass around a black hole is called an "event horizon," the point of no return beyond which not even light can escape. Scientists unveiled the first image of this on Wednesday.

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The first-ever image of a black hole was released Wednesday by a consortium of researchers, showing the "black hole at the center of galaxy M87, outlined by emission from hot gas swirling around it under the influence of strong gravity near its event hori

Earth Sees First Image Of A Black Hole

3:49pm April 10, 2019

by Bill Chappell

Every image you've ever seen of a black hole has been a simulation. Until now. "We have seen what we thought was unseeable," said Event Horizon Telescope Director Shep Doeleman.

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Juno Flies By Jupiter

9:41am April 07, 2019

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks NASA scientist Steven Levin about the spacecraft Juno's latest Jupiter fly-by, occurring this weekend.

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Japan's Hayabusa2, seen in this illustration, has been probing the asteroid Ryugu since 2018. The spacecraft is collecting samples that will be returned to Earth.

Japan (Very Carefully) Drops Plastic Explosives Onto An Asteroid

5:31pm April 05, 2019

by Geoff Brumfiel

The device was detonated as part of a mission to better understand the origins of planets.

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India launched a ballistic missile defense interceptor last week — and NASA says it created dangerous debris in orbit. "We have identified 400 pieces of orbital debris from that one event," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said.

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NASA: Debris From India's Anti-Satellite Test Raised Threat To Space Station

1:25pm April 02, 2019

by Bill Chappell

"That is a terrible, terrible thing to create an event that sends debris in an apogee that goes above the International Space Station," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said.

This illustration made available by NASA shows the Kepler space telescope, the planet-hunting spacecraft that launched in 2009.

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Young Astronomer Uses Artificial Intelligence To Discover 2 Exoplanets

1:15pm April 01, 2019

by Joe Palca

A team led by an undergraduate student at the University of Texas, Austin has found two new planets by using artificial intelligence to sift through data from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope.

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Scientist Corey Gray and his mother, Sharon Yellowfly, are pictured at one of the two massive detectors that make up the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. One facility, where Gray works, is in Washington state, and the other is in Louis

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How A Cosmic Collision Sparked A Native American Translator's Labor Of Love

5:19pm March 31, 2019

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

On April 1, astronomers will start two huge machines and continue hunting for ripples in space-time. One scientist gets his mom to translate news of each discovery into her native language, Blackfoot.

Experts believe the target of Wednesday's anti-satellite test was India's Microsat-R, which is shown here launching in January.

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India Claims Successful Test Of Anti-Satellite Weapon

4:23pm March 27, 2019

by Geoff Brumfiel

New Delhi says it destroyed one of its own satellites in orbit, making India only the fourth country to test such a weapon.

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