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As the world's largest radio/radar telescope when it was commissioned in 1963, the Arecibo Observatory saw countless firsts, from revealing the ...
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The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure ...
The same historic facilities that some 50 years ago prepared NASA's twin Voyager probes for their ongoing interstellar ...
After less than a year in orbit, the Southwest Research Institute-built PUNCH spacecraft have made major accomplishments, ...
Scientists themselves might benefit from reading Scientific American! In the July/August 2025 issue, there are two Advances ...
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