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Space.com @space.com · 36m

Our #spacephoto of #today looks at NASA's lunar #electric #rover as it goes for a test drive in #arizona.

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Space.com @space.com · 1d

On #october 1, near #earth #asteroid 2025 TF whizzed by #antarctica at a similar altitude as the International Space Station.

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Space.com @space.com · 2d

We travel to the Large Magellanic #cloud for our #space #photooftheday as this image was taken by the #hubble #telescope.

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Cosmic clouds caught by Hubble Telescope | Space photo of the day for Oct. 7, 2025

The cluster can offer fresh insights into how stars of all sizes form and evolve.

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Space.com @space.com · 2d

Read all about #science #icon Bill Nye teaming up with the @planetarysociety.bsky.social in a recent #protest against the #nasa budget cuts.

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PC: @planetarysociety.bsky.social

#billnye #billnyethescienceguy #savenasascience #savenasa #space #spacescience

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Space.com @space.com · 2d

Our #space #photooftheday shows how delicate the process is to repair a #telescope, as even the tiniest dust particle can affect its readings.

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Space.com @space.com · 3d

"We don't talk about Juno" or at least, NASA isn't right now.
The #juno #spacecraft studying #jupiter was supposed to end its #mission the same day the #governmentshutdown occurred. So what happened to Juno?

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#nasa #radiosilence #mysteries #spacemysteries

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Space.com @space.com · 3d

#onthisday in #space: In 1992 the #US and #Russia sign the #human #spaceflight Agreement.

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Space.com @space.com · 5d

Our #space #photooftheday shows #NASA #pilot Kirt Stallings waiting to take off as part of the GEMx #mission which will scan the Earth.

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Space.com @space.com · 5d

Taylor: “Did you #girlboss too close to the sun?”
NASA: Challenge accepted

#lifeofashowgirl #taylorswift #swiftie #newalbum #nasa #challengeaccepted #space #spacecraft

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Space.com @space.com · 6d

#otd in #space: The first successful #test #launch of the German A4 #rocket or the V2 rocket happened.

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Space.com @space.com · 6d

A look at binary #star system Eta Carinae from the #soar #telescope in #chile shows its various #color spectrum.

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Space.com @space.com · 6d

#onthisday in #space: In 2015, the United Launch Alliance celebrated their 100th #rocket #launch!

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Space.com @space.com · 8d

As the #government #shutdown begins, #nasa furloughs 15,000 #employees.

Our staff #writer @joshdinner.bsky.social dives into the details on our #website

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#spaceagency #administration #governmentshutdown

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Space.com @space.com · 8d

#onthisday in #space: In 1958 #nasa was created! Happy #birthday NASA!

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Space.com @space.com · 8d

Our #space #photooftheday comes from #chile as we look at the #telescopes atop Cerro Tololo in the Atacama Desert.

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Space.com @space.com · 9d

#onthisday in #space: In 2016 the #rosetta #spacecraft crashed into a #comet!

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Space.com @space.com · 9d

With a possible #government #shutdown on the #horizon, our staff #writer @joshdinner.bsky.social dives into how this may affect #nasa.

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#nasabudget #governmentshutdown

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Space.com @space.com · 9d

Is it a spiral or an elliptical #galaxy? NGC2775 seems to be maybe a bit of both in our #space #photooftheday captured by the #hubble space #telescope.

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 10d

Count down the top 10 breakthroughs in the 10 years since our first detection with @space.com. Do you agree with their picks?

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#GW10Years 🔭 ⚛️ 🧪

Screenshot: 1. Proving Einstein right! The first gravitational wave detection.

On Sept. 14, 2015, ripples in space-time washed over Earth that were generated by the merger of two black holes, each with a mass of around 30 times that of the sun. This signal, which would come to be known as GW150914 (GW for "gravitational wave" and the following numbers for the date of measurement), had been traveling to our planet for 1.4 billion years.

GW150914's arrival and detection confirmed a theory that was first proposed a century earlier by arguably history's most famous physicist, Albert Einstein, in his 1915 theory of gravity, general relativity.

Screenshot: 10. Proving Einstein ... wrong!?!

The LIGO project operates two detector sites: one near Hanford in eastern Washington, and another near Livingston, Louisiana (shown here). The observatory has four kilometre arms, long concrete tubes surrounded by the greenery of Louisiana. The central building shines white in the middle of the picture. There is LIGO's Science Education Center there is you would like to visit.

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Space.com @space.com · 10d

#onthisday in #space: In 1977, the #russian space #agency Roscosmos launched the Salyut 6 space station into orbit!

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Space.com @space.com · 12d

Our #space #photooftheday looks at the #dust and gas in the #mars #atmosphere in a photo taken by the ESA

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ESA spacecraft sees a kaleidoscope of color in Mars' atmosphere | Space photo of the day for Sept. 26, 2025

This delicately layered atmosphere is considered a "mille-feuille" by experts at the European Space Agency.

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Space.com @space.com · 13d

#onthisday in 1983, a #soyuz #rocket exploded on the #launchpad, with the #crew narrowly escaping beforehand.

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Space.com @space.com · 13d

Our #space #photooftheday is of the #cigar #galaxy, taken by the #hubble #spacetelescope

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Space.com @space.com · 14d

#onthisday in #space: In 2008, #china launched its 3rd #human #spaceflight mission, the Shenzhou 7!

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Space.com @space.com · 14d

NASA's IMAP #mission is being launched today via #spacex Falcon 9 #rocket.The spacecraft will be looking at #spaceweather in our #solarsystem.

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