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James Leidner spent three nights in a high-tech sleeping bag that unloads pressure in the brain by suctioning fluids into the lower body. NASA hopes the sack can be used by astronauts in space to alleviate the vision problems they commonly endure during longer missions.

Space

High-tech space sleeping bag could stop vision problems in astronauts

Long spells in microgravity can alter eyeball shape, but a sleeping bag that applies suction to the lower body could prevent such problems

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The IXPE mission

Space

NASA is launching X-ray telescope to study the science of black holes

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3 of the most exciting space telescopes planned for launch by 2034

Space

3 of the most exciting space telescopes planned for launch by 2034

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How the James Webb telescope will rewrite the story of the universe

Space

How the James Webb telescope will rewrite the story of the universe

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Newborn stars, hidden behind thick dust, are revealed in this image of a section of the so-called Christmas Tree Cluster from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The newly revealed infant stars appear as pink and red specks toward the center and appear to have formed in regularly spaced intervals along linear structures in a configuration that resembles the spokes of a wheel or the pattern of a snowflake. Hence, astronomers have nicknamed this the

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Sun-like stars may go through brighter phases as they grow up

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Planet Earth and Sun. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.

Space

Mysterious origin of Earth's water may be explained by solar wind

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WHY does time only move forward?

Physics

Why does time only move forwards? Possibly just because we’re ignorant

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Albert Einstein

Space

Lost in Space-Time newsletter: Will a twisted universe save cosmology?

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Artist's impression of `Oumuamua

Space

Earth may have grown around a rock from an alien star system

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Tardigrade

Space

Tardigrades could survive interstellar travel in extreme hibernation

The microscopic organisms have previously survived exposure to the vacuum of space and are able to hibernate using just 0.01 per cent of their normal energy

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Space

Can Blue Origin help replace the International Space Station?

Analysis

Space

Satellites and junk are littering space and ruining our night skies

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Space

Steve Chien interview: Why NASA is inventing curious AI for deep space

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Space

How the Hubble Telescope opened a new window on the cosmos

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