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What Is China's Xuntian Space Telescope? Science

What Is China's Xuntian Space Telescope?

China's Xuntian telescope — a 2.5-billion-pixel cosmic surveyor set to launch in late 2026 — promises to map 40% of the sky and reshape our understand...

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Japan's HTV-X1 Departs ISS After Delivering 5.5 Tons Science

Japan's HTV-X1 Departs ISS After Delivering 5.5 Tons

JAXA's next-generation HTV-X1 cargo spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station on March 6, 2026, after delivering roughly 5,470 kilogram...

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Blood Moon Tonight: Last Total Lunar Eclipse Until 2028 Science

Blood Moon Tonight: Last Total Lunar Eclipse Until 2028

Tonight's total lunar eclipse — visible to over 3.3 billion people across the Pacific, Americas, and Asia — will turn the Moon a deep reddish-orange f...

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Blood Moon on March 3: Last Total Lunar Eclipse Until 2029 Science

Blood Moon on March 3: Last Total Lunar Eclipse Until 2029

A total lunar eclipse – a 'blood moon' – will occur on the night of March 2-3, 2026, visible from Asia, Australia, and the Americas. The total phase w...

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Blood Moon on March 3, 2026: Last Total Lunar Eclipse Until 2028 Science

Blood Moon on March 3, 2026: Last Total Lunar Eclipse Until 2028

In the early hours of March 3, 2026, the Moon will turn a deep red for 59 minutes during a total eclipse visible from the Americas, East Asia, and the...

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Blood Moon March 3: Last Total Lunar Eclipse Until 2029 Science

Blood Moon March 3: Last Total Lunar Eclipse Until 2029

A total lunar eclipse will paint the Moon deep red on March 3, 2026 — the last blood moon visible from Earth until New Year's Eve 2028. Skywatchers ac...

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Blood Moon Rising: Last Total Lunar Eclipse Until 2029 Science

Blood Moon Rising: Last Total Lunar Eclipse Until 2029

On March 3, 2026, the Moon will turn a deep crimson red in the last total lunar eclipse visible from Earth for nearly three years — a celestial event...

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How a Cosmic Crash Built Titan and Saturn's Rings Science

How a Cosmic Crash Built Titan and Saturn's Rings

New research from the SETI Institute proposes that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was forged in a violent collision between two ancient moons hundreds...

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NASA Overhauls Artemis: Moon Landing Pushed to 2028 Science

NASA Overhauls Artemis: Moon Landing Pushed to 2028

NASA has radically restructured its Artemis lunar program, redesignating Artemis III as an Earth-orbit practice run and pushing the first actual crewe...

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NASA Delays Artemis II to April After Helium Fault Science

NASA Delays Artemis II to April After Helium Fault

NASA has rolled the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft back to the Vehicle Assembly Building after a helium flow fault blocked a March la...

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Webb Detects Hydrogen Sulfide on Exoplanets First Time Science

Webb Detects Hydrogen Sulfide on Exoplanets First Time

For the first time in history, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified hydrogen sulfide in the atmospheres of giant exoplanet...

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Moon Still Shrinking: 1,000 New Tectonic Ridges Found Science

Moon Still Shrinking: 1,000 New Tectonic Ridges Found

Smithsonian scientists have mapped more than 1,000 previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon's dark plains, confirming our nearest neighbour...

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