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2023 Perseid meteor shower seen from California NASA/Preston Deitches Space dust may have brought elements essential for life to early Earth. Our planet is relatively poor…
Google and the Environmental Defense Fund on Wednesday announced a partnership to uncover the sources of climate-warming emissions from oil and gas operations that will be…
Mysterious new weapon could threaten satellites in Earth orbitKey Fame/Shutterstock According to a series of reports, the US government has privately warned lawmakers and European allies…
Despite its recent emergence, these technologies and concepts are not new. The United States and the Soviet Union developed and tested anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) during the…
A small surgical robot aboard the International Space Station was tested in orbit for the first time, performing a simulated surgery in space while being remotely…
MAPLE power experimentAlex Ayling et al. The first experiment to transmit electricity from space to Earth could lead to space-based solar power plants within a decade,…
space politics The UK has managed to catch up with the US in terms of backing politicians who speak out knowing the vast and almost empty…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a surprising new perspective of spiral galaxy UGC 3912. This Hubble image shows UGC 3912, a small…
Astronaut Christina Koch looks at the greenhouse on the International Space Station NASA The following is an excerpt from the monthly Launchpad newsletter, where resident space…
The Hubble team has released beautiful images of two small interacting galaxies: NGC 5410 (the larger galaxy) and LEDA 49896. This Hubble image shows the NGC…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an excellent image of the interacting spiral lens galaxy pair Arp 140. Lenticular galaxy NGC 274 can be seen…
astronomer using NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope They captured a striking photo of NGC 5427, which is part of the interacting galaxy pair Arp 271. This Hubble…
The Hubble team has released a stunning photo of the face-on spiral galaxy ESO 420-13 taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This Hubble image shows…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken new photos of the relatively small galaxy UGC 5189A in the constellation Leo. This Hubble image shows UGC 5189A,…
The moon mission, although a private effort, is sponsored by NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program, which is a vital part of NASA’s initiatives to return…
In 1957, the first man-made object was successfully launched into space and into orbit around the Earth. This was Sputnik 1, a beautifully simple Soviet spherical…
Humans in the future may choose to live extraterrestrial lives on the Moon, Mars, or even Venus. However, the question arises of how they will continue…
In the relatively short period of space exploration history, the moon has experienced significant changes as a result of human activity. From the historical significance of…
How will our species evolve in space? If humans were suddenly forced to board a fleet of space arks and abandon Earth, evolution by natural selection…
allen telescope array Seth Szostak/SETI Institute Short, powerful bursts of radio waves from space are becoming increasingly bizarre. Astronomers discovered 35 of these bursts from a…
Wolf Rayet star WR 124 glimpsed by JWST NASA, ESA, CSA, STSCI, ERO production team The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) helped make 2023 the year…
Saturn, a gas giant, is known for its iconic ring system. But its B ring may have spots or streaks of denser or brighter material known…
Researchers re-evaluated extremely red objects (EROs) in the JWST data and found similarities with BluDOGs previously identified from Subaru Telescope data. This discovery contributes to a…
Video of cat Taters chasing laser light sent from space NASA NASA has broken its own record by transmitting ultra-high-definition video from deep space to a…
Nearly one year after astronaut Frank Rubio accidentally lost sight of tomatoes while harvesting them for the XROOTS experiment, two rogue tomatoes have been recovered. This…
The SpaceX Dragon Cargo Mission The SpaceX Dragon cargo ship approaches the International Space Station while orbiting 461 miles above Indonesia’s sub-sea coastline on the company’s…
Innovative “cooling glass” developed by researchers at the University of Maryland provides a groundbreaking, non-electrical solution for reducing indoor heat and carbon emissions, and significantly advances…
New high-definition images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) reveal intricate details of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A), which is…
NASA’s ILLUMA-T payload was successfully installed on the International Space Station to demonstrate higher data rates in NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration on December 16, 2023.…
when apex space The company, which came out of stealth last October, had the provocative goal of eliminating “new bottlenecks” plaguing the space industry by building…
This photo from the International Space Station orbiting 462 miles above cloudy Central Asia shows the jagged Moon waning just above Earth’s horizon. Credit: NASA The…
On November 11, 2023, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft’s thrusters fire automatically as it orchestrates a slow, methodical approach to the International Space Station for docking…
true anomaly has closed $100 million in new funding, a strong signal that the appetite for startups operating at the intersection of space and defense is…
helicity space has raised $5 million in seed funding to accelerate the development of technology that will ultimately enable fast and efficient travel in deep space.…
SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded during its first launch attempt in April 2023 space x The following is an excerpt from the monthly Launchpad newsletter, where resident…
Interactive 3D space builder Interactive 3D space builder Known as a cozy game, an interior decoration app, an introduction to learning to code, or something in…
Space propulsion developer Morpheus Space today announced its first software product, a mission simulation and design platform called Journey. Morpheus product manager Jim Gianakopoulos said in…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Pad 39A at Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on…