NATO backs UK startup building ultralight materials for rockets, fighter jets — and F1 cars

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Russian experts were guiding North Korea's space program ahead of Pyongyang blowing up its latest satellite: South Korean report

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People walk past a television showing file footage during a news report at a train station in Seoul on May 28, 2024, after North Korea said late Monday that the rocket carrying its
People walk past a television showing file footage during a news report at a train station in Seoul on May 28, 2024, after North Korea said late Monday that the rocket carrying its "Malligyon

Airbus to build satellite that will predict the northern lights

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NASA's Webb Space Telescope discovered 3 rare galaxies that can help astronomers study the cosmic dark ages

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Artist's concept of a galaxy in formation.
An illustration of a galaxy forming a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

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Watch: Space telescope captures solar megastorm behind epic northern lights

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Astronomers say we may live at the center of a cosmic void 2 billion light-years wide that defies the laws of cosmology

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The KBC void
New research suggests the KBC void is a 2 billion light-year-wide expanse of relatively empty space, and our galaxy sits right near the center of it.

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A 'severe' geomagnetic storm is forecast for Earth for the first time in years — here's what to know about these storms

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Satellite image of the sun's corona
NOAA's GOES-16 satellite captured this image of activity in the sun's corona on May 10.

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The first severe solar storm in 20 years could spark aurora across the US

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Aurora
Aurora are usually contained to the uppermost art of the Northern Hemisphere. But US states as far south as Michigan may be able to see them this Friday.

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China's hype video for its lunar base showed what looked like a NASA Space Shuttle lifting off, which it then realized and tried to fix

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What appears to be a NASA Space Shuttle seen in CNSA's video of the lunar base.
What appears to be a NASA Space Shuttle seen in CNSA's video of the lunar base.

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China is building a huge network of satellites that could be used against US troops: intel chief

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A worker walks past buildings behind propaganda flags at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert in northwest China, a day before the launch of the Shenzhou-18 spacecraft to China's Tiangong
The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert in northwest China.

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