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Installing the Museum's Lockheed U-2C spy plane. The building’s layout presented some special challenges leading to one of the most complicated installations to date.
Astronomers have officially identified more than 6,000 planets outside our solar system. Could one of them have the conditions to support life?
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Smithsonian curator Carolyn Russo’s new book The Ascent of Rauschenberg explores the artist’s fascination with flight
Learn how Vera Rubin pushed through gender barriers in the 1950s to discover dark matter.
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The mission’s goals have changed, and Artemis 4 will be the first lunar landing attempt. Four missions are tentatively scheduled within the next three years
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The orb will take on the spooky hue for about an hour on March 3 because of sunlight filtering through Earth’s atmosphere
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The researchers found the galaxy thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope
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A crash involving the planet’s largest moon, Titan, and a hypothetical moon may have triggered a curious sequence of events