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Happy Thanksgiving from space! NASA astronauts beam home Turkey Day message (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) The four NASA astronauts currently living on the International Space Station (ISS) just wished all of us all a happy Thanksgiving. Nick Hague, Don Pettit, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have beamed home a Turkey Day message […]
China to launch next-generation Beidou satellites in 2027 (Image Credit: Space News) Join our newsletter to get the latest military space newsevery Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. HELSINKI — China has announced a strategic roadmap for advancing its Beidou positioning and navigation system by 2035, in a move which could […]
Japan’s priceless asteroid Ryugu sample got ‘rapidly colonized’ by Earth bacteria (Image Credit: Space.com) Scientists have discovered that a sample of the asteroid Ryugu was overrun with Earth-based life forms after being delivered to our planet. The research shows how successful terrestrial micro-organisms are at colonization, even on extraterrestrial materials. The samples […]
NASA’s Europa Clipper probe deploys 1st science instruments en route to Jupiter (Image Credit: Space.com) NASA’s Europa Clipper mission has successfully deployed two of its science instruments as it makes its way to the Jupiter system. Launched on Oct. 14, the Europa Clipper spacecraft is currently en route to study Jupiter’s icy […]
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on 400th successful Falcon 9 flight (video, photos) (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX just notched a big spaceflight milestone. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 of the company’s Starlink satellites lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday (Nov. 26) at 11:41 p.m. EST (0441 GMT […]
5 galaxies in perfect alignment challenge our best model of the universe (Image Credit: Space.com) Astronomers have discovered a group of dwarf galaxies that are unusually aligned in a near-straight line, with most of them rotating in the same direction. These peculiar features challenge predictions made by the prevailing cold dark matter […]
Near Space Labs launches fleet of AI-powered balloon robots to track Earth climate risks (Image Credit: Space.com) Near Space Labs, a New York-based startup, has deployed a network of high-altitude balloons equipped with advanced robotic cameras to capture high-resolution images of disaster-prone neighborhoods across the United States. With this enhanced imagery, the […]
Goodnight moon! Astronomers snap photo of Earth’s departing mini-moon (Image Credit: Space.com) A temporary mini-moon snared by Earth’s gravity for nearly two months before departing back into the solar system can be seen in a new image from the Two-Meter Twin Telescope in Spain. The near-Earth asteroid (NEO) 2024 PT5 was snared […]
China’s Tianzhou 7 spacecraft burns up in Earth’s atmosphere to end cargo mission (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) China has deorbited a cargo spacecraft that earlier this year delivered supplies to the country’s space station. That freighter, called Tianzhou 7, launched on a Long March 7 rocket from the Wenchang spaceport on Jan. […]
Astronaut catches Dextre space robot ‘busting a move’ outside ISS — for science (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) A space robot was just caught in action during a science experiment, high above Earth. NASA astronaut Don Pettit took a short video of a Canadian handy-robot on the International Space Station (ISS). The long-running […]
