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HALO Space unveils capsule design for stratospheric space 'glamping'
Spanish start-up HALO Space has unveiled its capsule design for stratospheric space tourism.
One of the universe's most 'extreme' dead stars just sprang back to life unexpectedly
The closest extreme magnetic dead star or magnetar to Earth suddenly burst back to life to give astronomers a sight of unexpected and unexplained phenomena that are unlike anything seen before.
Scientists identify origin of the 'BOAT' — the brightest cosmic blast of all time
Astronomers have discovered that the BOAT, the most powerful gamma-ray burst ever detected, came from the supernova death of a massive star 2.4 million light-years away.
Achoo! Baby star 'sneezes' tell astronomers a lot about their development
Achoo! Baby stars "sneeze" to rid themselves of excess energy during their formation process, astronomers using the ALMA telescope array have found.
A NASA spacecraft spotted something weird orbiting the moon. It was just a lunar neighbor (photos)
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) snapped a perfectly timed photo as it crossed paths with another spacecraft orbiting the moon.
Monster star gains magnetic personality following stellar merger
A rare massive star possessing a magnetic field could have produced its dynamo after merging with another star.
Car-size asteroid gives Earth a super-close shave with flyby closer than some satellites
A newly discovered space rock will harmlessly pass by Earth today. Still, at less than a tenth the distance to the moon, asteroid 2024 GJ2 will miss the planet by the skin of its teeth.
Gravitational waves reveal 1st-of-its-kind merger between neutron star and mystery object
The mystery object, which falls right within the mass-gap range, sheds light on a long-sought, murky realm.
Trains, planes and a total solar eclipse! Watching the moon block the sun was a transportation adventure (exclusive)
My family has been in transportation for generations, in planes and trains. I finally got my two ancestral lines to meet, eclipse-style, at a Canadian rail station near an airport.
