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NASA Launches Mission to Study Earth’s Magnetic Shield
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
2 Earth weather satellites accidentally spy on Venus
In a serendipitous turn of events, scientists have discovered that Japan’s Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 weather satellites, designed to monitor storms and climate patterns here on Earth, have also been quietly
NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Earth-Tracking NISAR Satellite
A collaboration between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation, NISAR will use synthetic aperture radar to monitor nearly all the planet’s land- and ice-covered surfaces twice every 12 days.
New Neil Armstrong Prize to honor achievements in space
A new international award named for the first person to step foot on the moon will honor excellence in “space discovery” as established by the school known as “the cradle
NASA Scientist Finds Predicted Companion Star to Betelgeuse
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An image of Betelgeuse, the yellow-red star, and the signature of its close companion, the faint blue object. Data:
Ocean Planet Genomics: Deep-sea DNA Study Reveals Global Connectivity Of Earth’s Marine Life
Genomics Interrelatedness — Nature A world-first study led by Museums Victoria Research Institute has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurised world of the deep sea, marine life is far
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This rendering shows what the Maxar-built SXM-9 will look like once on orbit. Image: Maxar With a Thursday late morning liftoff, SpaceX sent the latest satellite in the radio broadcast
Scientists have just reported they’ve found more evidence the universe is vibrating in the form of a gravitational wave background. Image via Carl Knox/ OzGrav/ Swinburne University of Technology and
File: A Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch a Starlink mission. Image: SpaceX SpaceX aims notched another milestone in spaceflight reusability Wednesday night when it not only launched a
Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur with two commercial spaceflights to his credit and strong ties to Elon Musk and SpaceX, has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as
Artist’s view of Proba-3 on an ISRO PSLV-XL launch vehicle. Graphic: P. Carril/ESA Update 5:46 a.m. EST (1046 UTC): The launch was delayed a day due to a “technical issue
A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin a record-breaking 24th mission for booster B1067. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight
Venus and a young crescent Moon close together on the early-evening of 26 April 2020. A young moon lies close to Venus on soon after sunset on 5 November, Bonfire
Image: ESO/VPHAS+ Team. This eerie, dark silhouette is a cometary globule designated GN 16.43.7.01. Despite their name, cometary globules have nothing to do with comets, beyond having a similar shape
A Hubble Space Telescope false-colour view (left) of a 100-billion-mile-wide disc of dust around the star Vega. The James Webb Space Telescope (right) resolves the glow of warm dust in
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