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.
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.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.— Lockheed Martin is developing concepts for deploying missile interceptors in space as part of Golden Dome for America, the Trump administration’s ambitious program to create a comprehensive missile
Schematic view of the optical design and layout of the NIRPS spectrograph and its components. — astro-ph.IM The Near-InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) is a high-resolution, high-stability near-infrared (NIR) spectrograph equipped
If you have any doubts about the objectives of the program, just check out their logo: a stylized crescent moon with two footprints in the middle.
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida early this morning (Aug. 4). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape
If you’ve ever dreamed of traveling through space as an explorer, you know there’ll be some serious “downside dangers”. One of them is cosmic rays. These high-speed particles slam through
WASHINGTON — Three European companies that have proposed combining their space businesses say they are still in discussions after missing a July deadline for a “go/no-go” decision on the merger.
We should rethink how to send humans to Mars — a goal now getting much discussion. With proposed budgets and current technical difficulties in human spaceflight development making such a
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