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The third-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea exposes an ancient piece of the ocean floor and hosts a clowder of cats.

November 5, 2026 at 05:30AM
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On Wednesday, NASA unveiled its newest experimental aircraft, the X-70 Fractal, during the UP.Summit at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This high-performance, highly adaptable research platform is designed to accelerate the development and testing of advanced aviation technologies.  The crewed X-70 features advanced, rapidly reconfigurable flight-control technology that will allow NASA to explore […]

November 5, 2026 at 05:30AM
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In an update on Oct. 23, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and other agency leaders shared the agency’s path to returning Americans to the lunar surface in 2028. Agency leadership provided updates on the previously announced acceleration plans for the Artemis program, advancing toward the agency’s Artemis III test flight in 2027 and Artemis IV Moon […]

November 4, 2026 at 05:30AM
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NASA selected three companies on Wednesday to perform work to develop Ka-band space relay capability concepts that are compatible with current missions in space, ensuring service continuity for existing spacecraft without requiring modifications to their onboard systems. Through this work, NASA will aim to acquire end-to-end solutions that include space, ground, launch, operations, and integration […]

November 4, 2026 at 05:30AM
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Weather provided ideal conditions for enhanced ozone depletion

November 4, 2026 at 05:30AM
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Nearly 5 decades after its launch, NASA's Voyager 1 is approaching a historic one-light-day milestone, putting it more than 16 billion miles from Earth. As the spacecraft moves deeper into space, engineers are battling declining power, ageing equipment and unexpected communication disruptions.

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With hardly a cloud in sight, astronauts had a sweeping view of nighttime lights in the U.S. Midwest.

November 4, 2026 at 05:30AM
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