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The International Space Station will fall to Earth in 2030. Can a private space station really fill its gap?

November 4, 2025
When the International Space Station plunges to its fiery doom in 2030, its loss to science will be incalculable, even if it remains an open question as to whether its successes matched humanity’s ambitions for it. By the time that the International Space Station (ISS) is safely and deliberately de-orbited over the Pacific Ocean, the station will have been permanently crewed for 30 years —…
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Explore the Milky Way like never before in this stunning new color map (image)

November 3, 2025
Astronomers have unveiled the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever created, offering a sprawling cosmic panorama that reveals supernova remnants, stellar nurseries, pulsars and the intricate glow of gas and dust weaving through our galaxy’s heart. Built from data collected by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope in Western Australia, the image combines…
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China reveals crew for Shenzhou 21 mission to Tiangong Space Station, including nation's youngest astronaut (video)

October 31, 2025
China has named the three astronauts set to fly to the Tiangong space station at a pre-launch press conference one day ahead of the Oct. 31 flight of the Shenzhou 21 mission. Astronauts Zhang Lu, Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang will be aboard the Shenzhou 21 spacecraft, currently scheduled to launch on a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 11:44 a.m. EDT…
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Enormous black hole unexpectedly found in tiny galaxy

October 30, 2025
An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way’s tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about how small galaxies hold themselves together. Segue 1 is an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy located about 75,000 light-years from Earth, making it a very close neighbor of the Milky Way. Advanced modeling technologies revealed that the galaxy appears to…
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