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As the Apollo 10 crew walks along a corridor on the way to Launch Complex 39B, mission commander Thomas P. Stafford pats the nose of Snoopy, the mission's mascot, held by Jamye Flowers, astronaut Gordon Coopers' secretary. (NASA)

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing dress rehearsal flight Apollo 10. Astronauts Tom Stafford, John Young and Ge ...

Air Date: May 17, 2019

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Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity rocket plane flown into the atmosphere before launching Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, in Mojave, Calif. (Matt Hartman/AP Photo)

Lifestyle

Space-tourism dream edges toward reality in New Mexico

British billionaire Richard Branson and his space-tourism company Virgin Galactic announced new steps Friday toward offering thrill rides into the low reaches of space.

2 weeks ago

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Extraterrestrials On Earth?

Two researchers suggest a small amount of Earth’s heaviest elements were created in the collision of two neutron stars 4.6 billion ...

Air Date: May 11, 2019

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This image made from a composite of September 2003 - January 2004 photos captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows nearly 10,000 galaxies in the deepest visible-light image of the cosmos, cutting across billions of light-years. In research released on Friday, April 26, 2019, Nobel winning astronomer Adam Riess calculates the cosmos is between 12.5 and 13.0 billion years old - about 1 billion years younger than previous estimates. (NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), HUDF Team via AP)

Science

New study says universe expanding faster and is younger than we thought

The universe is expanding faster than it used to, meaning it's about a billion years younger than we thought, a new study by a Nobel Prize winner says.

4 weeks ago

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Philadelphia Science Festival

The Philadelphia Science Festival encompasses nine days of more than 80 extraordinary, mostly free science events all around the city fro ...

Air Date: April 27, 2019

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NASA astronaut and Expedition 59 Flight Engineer Christina Koch works on U.S. spacesuits inside the Quest airlock.

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Double Duty

NASA Astronaut Christina Koch’s maiden voyage in space will extend for almost double the scheduled duration. She is now set to stay ...

Air Date: April 20, 2019

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Down the Shore

Community

Fireball streaks across southern Jersey Shore sky

Commenters on the Cool Cape May Facebook page reported seeing the vivid fireball and feeling shaking.

1 month ago

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Explorer of the Year

Next week, (Wednesday evening at the Union League in Philadelphia) the Geographical Society of Philadelphia will bestow its 128th Explo ...

Air Date: April 15, 2019

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This image released Wednesday, April 10, 2019, by Event Horizon Telescope shows a black hole. Scientists revealed the first image ever made of a black hole after assembling data gathered by a network of radio telescopes around the world. (Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration/Maunakea Observatories via AP)

Science

Picture was clear, but black hole’s name a little fuzzy

The newly pictured supermassive black hole is a beast with no name, at least not an official one. And what happens next could be cosmically confusing.

1 month ago

The first-ever image of a black hole was released Wednesday by a consortium of researchers, showing the

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A black hole is photographed for first time by massive telescope project

"Getting a direct view of a black hole is the ultimate dream for a lot of physicists," as astrophysicist Adam Frank wrote for NPR.

1 month ago

Image: NASA, ESA, and D. Coe, J. Anderson, and R. van der Marel (STScI)

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Imaging The Unimaginable

The Event Horizon Telescope team may reveal an image of a black hole event horizon on Wednesday. An array of eight radio telescopes aroun ...

Air Date: April 6, 2019

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An image of Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space Telescope

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Jupiter Ch-Ch-Changes

Jupiter has seen quite a dramatic change since formation 4.5 billion years ago. Now the largest planet in the solar system, with a mass g ...

Air Date: March 30, 2019

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While she was working last week, U.S. astronaut Anne McClain realized that she needed a medium-size suit for spacewalking. (Dmitri Lovetsky/AP)

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NASA scraps first all-female spacewalk for want of a medium-size spacesuit

History was supposed to be made Friday when, for the first time, two female astronauts were scheduled to do a spacewalk together outside the International Space Station.

2 months ago