What went wrong at Virgin Orbit? 4 red flags signaled trouble for Richard Branson's satellite launch firm.

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Richard Branson, next to Virgin Orbit's Cosmic Girl
Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit has filed for bankruptcy protection.

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An asteroid nearly the size of a skyscraper will whiz between the Earth and the moon on Saturday in a once-in-a-decade event

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(7-19 Dec. 1972) --- The crescent Earth rises above the lunar horizon in this spectacular photograph taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in lunar orbit during the final lunar landing mission in the Apollo program.
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NASA video shows a giant churning tornado on the sun as tall as 14 Earths, hurling plasma into space

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A video taken on March 17, 2023 shows a solar tornado spinning above the sun's surface.
A video taken on March 17, 2023 shows a solar tornado spinning above the sun's surface.

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When, where, and how to see the rare alignment of 5 planets in the night sky this month

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Mars, Uranus, Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury on a sky background
Top to bottom: Mars, Uranus, Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury will align like this in late March. This image is not to scale. Images of the planets have been overlaid on the sky to show their order.

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Relativity Space made history by launching the first 3D printed rocket into space. Here's how the company aims to beat Elon Musk to Mars by 2024.

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A photomontage shows Terran 1 ready to launch on its launchpad next to a picture of the rocket's trajectory after launch.
Terran 1 launched on March 22, 2023, but failed to reach orbit.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is so powerful it discovered sand storms on a planet 235 trillion miles away

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An illustration of the exoplanet known as VHS 1256 b.

NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)

The Northern Lights could dazzle the skies from Washington to New York on Friday, blown by winds from a giant 'hole' on the sun

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The aurora borealis could be seen above skies in the northern United States on Friday thanks to winds from a giant
The aurora borealis may be seen above skies in the northern United States on Friday thanks to winds from a giant "hole" in the sun.

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A 'hole' 30 times Earth's size has spread across the sun, blasting solar winds that'll hit our planet by end of this week

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A video from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the massive hole in the sun's atmosphere.
A video from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the massive hole in the sun's atmosphere.

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The 2023 spring equinox is here — here's what it is and how it works

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nasa apollo 11 earth africa 1969 AS11 36 5352HR
Earth is a like 7,917-mile-wide rotisserie chicken.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spots a rare star preparing to explode and die in a supernova

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A pre-supernova star, called a Wolf-Rayet star, in near-infrared and mid-infrared via the James Webb Space Telescope.

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