After completing a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts will discuss their science mission during a postflight news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Monday, March 31, from the agency’s Johnson…
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50 Years Ago: Final Saturn Rocket Rolls Out to Launch Pad 39
On March 24, 1975, the last in a long line of super successful Saturn rockets rolled out from the vehicle assembly building to Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Saturn IB rocket for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was…
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Balancing national security and international cooperation in the competitive era of commercial space
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, and I share a few commonalities: we were born a few blocks from each other in Manhattan, we both attended Columbia University, we both call Oyster Bay, N.Y. our hometown, and we both…
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MaiaSpace signs first commercial launch contract
WASHINGTON — MaiaSpace, a small launch vehicle developer spun out of ArianeGroup, has signed its first commercial launch contract for missions launching as soon as 2027.
MaiaSpace said March 20 it signed a contract with Exotrail, a…
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Hubble Caught a Cosmic Illusion – And a Supernova Just in Time
A picturesque galaxy 40 million light-years away, NGC 5530 dazzles with its patchy spiral arms in the constellation Lupus. Today’s Hubble Space Telescope image features the striking spiral galaxy NGC 5530, located about 40 million light-years…
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Shenzhou-19 astronauts complete third spacewalk, install final debris shielding on Tiangong
HELSINKI — A pair of Chinese astronauts embarked on an extravehicular activity outside the Tiangong space station Friday, as the crew approaches the end of their six-month-long stay in orbit.
Astronauts Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong…
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The European Union’s push for next generation space electronics and critical technologies
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A Hidden Shift in Dark Energy Could Rewrite the Laws of Physics
The latest findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) challenge long-held beliefs about dark energy. By analyzing three years of cosmic data, scientists are seeing strong hints that dark energy, previously thought to be a…
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No magmatic driving force for Europan sea-floor volcanism
Hand K. P. et al. In Europa (eds Pappalardo, R. T. et al.) 589–629 (Univ. of Arizona Press, 2009).
Vance, S. D. et al. Investigating Europa’s habitability with the Europa Clipper. Space Sci. Rev. 219, 81 (2023).
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Winds on an ultrahot planet challenge climate models
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The ultrahot exoplanet WASP‑121 b has strong winds…
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