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A huge Delta IV Heavy rocket will launch a new US spy satellite overnight. Here's how to watch.


CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — United Launch Alliance (ULA) is gearing up to launch its mightiest candle in the fleet of rockets: the Delta IV Heavy.

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Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2020: Hurricane Laura looks fearsome in the Gulf of Mexico from orbit in this view from the International Space Station by NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy.

Astronomers discover the fastest-spinning white dwarf yet — and it's a vampire


The leftover cores from sunlike stars, white dwarfs live for trillions of years through the support of exotic quantum physics.

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