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NASA rover climbs daunting slope, views its remarkable Mars adventure (Image Credit: Mashable) NASA’s car-sized Perseverance rover is making a hard slog. The space agency’s robot is fighting both steep and slippery terrain as it ascends the wall of Mars’ Jezero Crater, the site of once vigorously flowing water. The Mars rover is headed to […]
A NASA telescope reveals a giant black hole jet like never before (Image Credit: Mashable) Particles blasting from a supermassive black hole jet appear to be traveling at nearly the speed of light — much faster than scientists had previously clocked them, according to new research. While most observations of black holes in space are […]
NRO shows continued interest in orbital transfer vehicles and spacecraft multimanifesting (Image Credit: Space News) Join our newsletter to get the latest military space newsevery Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The National Reconnaissance Office is continuing to explore use of orbital transfer vehicles and improved multimanifesting approaches as it continues […]
Lockheed Martin completes acquisition of smallsat manufacturer Terran Orbital (Image Credit: Space News) Join our newsletter to get the latest military space newsevery Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin Corp announced Oct. 30 it has completed the acquisition of small satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital. The approximately $450 million acquisition deal […]
7 hidden gem horror films for Halloween — and their cosmic counterparts (Image Credit: Space.com) Halloween is approaching quickly, meaning many of us have turned our minds to the more ghoulish and macabre elements of life. So, settle in. It’s time to revel in tales of horror and suspense — both on Earth, and beyond. […]
NASA faces tough decisions on Orion capsule’s heat shield for Artemis moon missions (Image Credit: Space.com) NASA remains in an ongoing test mode to determine what’s behind the ablative thermal protective material that chipped away unexpectedly from the Artemis 1 Orion heat shield during its reentry into Earth’s atmosphere back on Dec. 11, 2022. The […]
China launches 3 astronauts to Tiangong space station on Shenzhou 19 mission (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) China’s next human spaceflight mission is on its way into orbit. A Long March 2F rocket topped with the Shenzhou 19 crew spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center today (Oct. 19) at 4:27 p.m. EDT (2027 […]
NASA’s Perseverance rover gets stunning view of big Mars crater from slippery slope (video, photos) (Image Credit: Space.com) NASA’s Perseverance rover took a break from its Mars mountaineering expedition recently to survey its old stomping grounds. The car-sized Perseverance landed on the floor of the 28-mile-wide (45-kilometer-wide) Jezero Crater in February 2021 to hunt for […]
Chinese Startup Offers Trips to Edge of Space for an Absolute Bargain, Sells Out in Minutes (Image Credit: futurism-com) Traveling to space could soon get a lot cheaper. Bargain Spacement Chinese space startup Deep Blue Aerospace recently took to social media to announce the sale of tickets for a 12-minute journey to the edge of […]
Breakthrough Image of Milky Way Black Hole Is Flawed, New Analysis Suggests (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) A team of researchers from Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory (NAOJ) is claiming that the groundbreaking image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is not accurate. The original image of Sagittarius A* was constructed from data […]
