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Watch NASA's Artemis 1 SLS megarocket moon launch for free with these live webcasts

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Launch of NASA's epic Artemis 1 moon mission just 1 week away

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Artemis 1, the first mission in NASA's Artemis program of lunar exploration, is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 29 at 8:33 a.m. EDT (1233 GMT).

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Watch NASA's Artemis 1 SLS megarocket moon launch for free with these live webcasts

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NASA's huge Artemis 1 rocket is counting down to a planned Aug. 29 launch to the moon and when it does, you'll be able to watch the historic mission live online for free.

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Hubble Space Telescope photo shows star-studded globular cluster near Milky Way's core

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A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a star-studded cluster in the constellation Sagittarius. This stellar grouping, known as globular cluster NGC 6540, shines brightly with tens of thousands to millions of stars tightly bound together by gravity.

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Science & Astronomy

Comet 67P has the building blocks of life - smells like mothballs and almonds

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The Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is much richer in complex organic molecules than scientists expected, and until now, some of those molecules had never been seen around a comet.

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A month on 'Mars': Flags and footprints of the moon and Arctic

(Courtesy of Rod Pyle)

The Apollo lunar landing missions have often been referred to as "flags and footprints" sorties. We too are planting flags and leaving footprints, but in a very different way.

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China is building a huge ring of telescopes to study eruptions on the sun

(Liu Zhongjun/China News Service via Getty Images)

The Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope (DSRT) is under construction on a plateau in Sichuan province, southwest China. When completed, it will consist of 313 dishes, each with a diameter of 19.7 feet (6 meters), forming a circle with a circumference of 1.95 miles (3.14 kilometers).

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SpaceX

SpaceX Dragon cargo ship returns to Earth from space station

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A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship returned to Earth with an ocean splashdown on Saturday (Aug. 20) carrying tons of science gear from the International Space Station.

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Spaceflight

Voyager turns 45: What the iconic mission taught us and what's next

(NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Can the first probe to visit Neptune and Uranus make it to its 50th anniversary?

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Technology

Scientists blast atoms with Fibonacci laser to make an 'extra' dimension of time

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By firing a Fibonacci laser pulse at atoms inside a quantum computer, physicists have created a completely new, strange phase of matter that behaves as if it has two dimensions of time.

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