WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has awarded contracts to five companies to develop satellite communications concepts for a new geostationary constellation, the service announced July 28. To continue reading
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has awarded contracts to five companies to develop satellite communications concepts for a new geostationary constellation, the service announced July 28. To continue reading
Happy 30th Birthday to “Apollo 13!” Director Ron Howard’s harrowing true tale of the unlucky Apollo 13 mission to the moon in 1970 still stands as one of the finest
Planet M–R and mass–density distributions of literature and TGLC-fitted values. (a) M–R distribution of small TESS planets. (b) Mass–density distribution of small TESS planets. Both panels include the high-precision planet
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The next four people to launch to the International Space Station have arrived at their launch site. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, together with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration
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Starship will fly again before the summer is over, if all goes according to plan. SpaceX aims to launch the 10th test flight of Starship, the biggest and most powerful
Since the discovery of planetary nebulae in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that these expanding shells of glowing gas expelled by low-intermediate mass stars late in their lives can






