WASHINGTON — An Ariane 6 rocket placed two satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation system into orbit Dec. 17. An Ariane 62 lifted off from the European spaceport in Kourou, French
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An artist’s concept of the Moon (right) and Mars (center) against the starry expanse of space. A sliver of the Earth’s horizon can be seen in the foreground. Credit: NASA
WASHINGTON — Despite flat budgets for the Federal Aviation Administration office that oversees commercial spaceflight, industry has mixed opinions of a provision in the budget reconciliation bill that would raise
One of the brightest and most colorful stars in the sky and the most brilliant planet are on stage in the early morning dawn sky this weekend and will be
Plenty of groups have been theorizing about Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) recently. That is in part because of their candidacy as a potential source of dark matter. But, if they
NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission launched at 2:13 p.m. EDT atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force
As the Sun approaches the most active part of its eleven-year magnetic cycle this summer, NASA volunteers have been watching it closely. Now they’ve spotted a new trend in solar
Rich with detail, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 1309 is about 100 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.
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The latest advancements in the ExoMars mission have led to a remarkable achievement in aerospace engineering—successfully testing the most complex parachute system ever devised for use on Mars. This ambitious
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