A Harvard professor is risking his reputation to search for aliens. Tech tycoons are bankrolling his quest.

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A stylised picture shows Avi Loeb.

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NASA Figured Out Why Its Voyager 1 Probe Has Been Glitching for Months

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After months of sending unusable data to mission control, there’s finally hope for the Voyager 1 spacecraft. NASA engineers pinpointed the cause behind the mission’s odd anomaly, and think they can help the interstellar probe make sense again.

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The Moon Is Getting Its Own Time Zone

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NASA and its international partners have big plans when it comes to the Moon—plans that will require the careful synching of Earth-based clocks with those on the Moon. The White House wants NASA to develop a solution to support the Artemis program, but to also maintain the United States’ leading position in the global…

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NASA’s First Moon Buggy Since Apollo: Here’s What We Know So Far

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A trio of commercial space ventures has been tasked with designing a lunar terrain vehicle for the upcoming Artemis missions to the Moon, helping astronauts explore the south polar region as part of humanity’s return to the dusty satellite.

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Why NASA says the total solar eclipse on Monday will be way cooler than any before it

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The 2017 total solar eclipsefrom atop Carroll Rim Trail at Painted Hills, a unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, near Mitchell, Oregon.

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A rare 'Devil Comet' will appear during the 2024 total solar eclipse. Here's how to see the Mt. Everest-sized space rock.

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Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks glows green as it streaks through space with bright star Hamal shining in the background. You might be able to spot this comet during the total solar eclipse.

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The 10 biggest cities where you can view Monday's total solar eclipse, from Texas to Indiana, Ohio, and New York

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Depending on your location this April, the moon will completely eclipse the sun — what's called "duration of totality" — for over 4 minutes.

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Scientists built a 3-ton camera with a 5-foot-wide lens to discover hazardous asteroids that NASA can't see

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Travis Lange, the deputy project manager of the LSST, shone a flashlight into the LSST Camera, which has a 5-foot-wide lens.

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NASA is making a new clock that ticks faster than any on Earth to help its astronauts keep time on the moon

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Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan stands next to a flag and a rover on the moon..

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A NASA probe flew straight through an explosion from the sun, and found a key clue to how solar storms form

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The sun blows out a coronal mass ejection, February 24, 2015.

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