Space Exploration

SpaceX Launch

60 More Starlink Satellites SpaceX is fresh of its historic crewed launch that sent astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station (ISS), but it’s not taking any time off to celebrate. The company has just launched yet another batch of Starlink internet satellites, and it did …

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New Evidence On Mars

Researchers Find New Evidence that Mars Once Had Massive Ring Mars had a massive ring system several billion years ago, according to new research from the SETI Institute and Purdue University. An artist’s impression of a ringed Mars. Image credit: Tushar Mittal. Mars has two small satellites, Phobos and Deimos, …

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Earth Like Planet Near?

Astronomers Confirm Earth-Like Planet Orbiting Nearest Star Scientists used to wonder if planets were common throughout the universe, and now we know: they are. Observations with ground-based and space telescopes like Kepler and TESS have proven planets are extremely common. There’s even a small, Earth-like planet right next door orbiting …

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A Hydrogen Iceberg

Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua Might Be a Hydrogen Iceberg Astronomers discovered our first confirmed interstellar visitor in 2017, naming it ‘Oumuamua, the word for “scout” in the Hawaiian language. Determining what ‘Oumuamua actually was proved a more daunting task. Eventually, astronomers decided ‘Oumuamua was probably a very old comet, but a …

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Ring of Fire Galaxy

Astronomers Spot Ancient ‘Ring of Fire’ Galaxy Galaxies come in all shapes and sizes, but few are ring galaxies. Astronomers studying one of these objects on the other side of the universe have noted some startling properties. As with other ring galaxies, this one is not a result of internal …

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Historic Crewed Launch

NASA, SpaceX Gear Up for Historic Crewed Launch Today NASA and SpaceX are just hours away from making history. After years of development and testing, SpaceX is set to become the first private spaceflight firm to carry American astronauts into space as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. This is …

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Birth Of A New Planet?

This Yellow Swirl Could Be the Birth of a New Planet Scientists have identified thousands of exoplanets thanks to instruments like the Kepler Space Telescope. With each new world we examine, we learn more about how planets develop across the universe. Studying planets as they form would be the holy …

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Ancient Ice Covered Lake

Curiosity Finds Evidence of Mars’ Ancient Ice-Covered Lakes Using data from the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument on NASA’s rover Curiosity, researchers have found that certain minerals in rocks at Gale Crater, the 150-km-wide ancient basin that Curiosity is exploring, may have formed in an ice-covered lake during a …

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Juno Sees Jupiter

Northern High-Altitude Hazes NASA’s Juno orbiter captured a beautiful image during its 25th close flyby of Jupiter in February 2020. This image of Jupiter was taken on February 17, 2020 as Juno performed its 25th close flyby of the gas giant. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft …

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Rocket Falls to Earth

Huge Chinese Rocket Stage Falls to Earth in Uncontrolled Reentry China celebrated success last week when its prototype crewed spacecraft returned to Earth after several days in orbit. It got there with the aid of a new, more powerful rocket called the Long March 5B. The core stage remained in …

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