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During its secretive mission, the X-37B will test new laser communications gear and a "quantum" navigation sensor.

A strange signal in the background hum created by a merger between two black holes could be the first ever detection of a system of three stellar-mass black holes locked in a gravitational waltz ...

In December, the Parker Solar Probe made history when it made the closest-ever approach to the sun by a spacecraft. As it whizzed by, a camera recorded incredibly detailed images, which show the sun’s ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to poet Raymond Antrobus about his new memoir, The Quiet Ear, and how he has navigated between ...

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Now and then, of course, Jupiter's astronomers, in searching for sun spots, may detect a little black dot moving across the solar disk, and which will turn out to be a “transit of the earth ...