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The head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, seeking to assure astronomers concerned about the next administration, said that the transition process has gone as he expected. SpaceNews.com

Astrophotographer Jeffrey O. Johnson took this image of Barnard 343 from his backyard in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

When Galina Balashova designed her first space habitation module for Soviet cosmonauts, she drew a landscape on its interior wall, something that could remind them of home.

"For the past 10,000 years, astronomers have been studying the light side of the universe," said Avery Broderick, Associate Faculty member at Canada's prestigious Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. "We have now...

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