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Long-sought measurement of exotic beta decay in thallium helps extract the timescale of the sun’s birth (Image Credit: Phys.org) Artistic depiction of an AGB star mixing with the early solar system. Credit: Danielle Adams for TRIUMF Have you ever wondered how long it took our sun to form in its stellar nursery? […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX kept the launch machine rolling with another Starlink mission from the Space Coast on Thursday morning. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 of the company’s internet satellites lifted off at 8:21 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40. The first-stage booster for the mission made its […]
The final supermoon of 2024 rises tonight as November’s Full Beaver Moon (Image Credit: Space.com) The last of four consecutive supermoons in 2024 rises this week. November’s Full Beaver Moon will rise on Friday (Nov. 15), just in time for those willing to stay up late for some weekend skywatching. The moment […]
Rock once forgotten in a drawer plays key part in dating water on Mars (Image Credit: Mashable) It’s a tale as old as time: Scientist finds a random rock in a drawer; a century later, it helps humanity figure out when liquid water was on Mars. Sarcasm aside, the strange history of […]
Boeing delivers advanced O3b mPOWER satellites to SES (Image Credit: Sat News) Boeing [NYSE: BA] teams have successfully delivered the 7th and 8th O3b mPOWER satellites to SES. These satellites, featuring Boeing’s advanced software-defined communications payload, are being transported to Cape Canaveral for a planned launch in December. O3b mPOWER satellite at […]
The European Space Agency has signed six contracts that will help position Greece as a key player in the field of Earth Observation (EO). The contracts fall under Greece’s National Satellite Space Project, which is a new initiative. In fact, the Ministry of Digital Governance in Greece only announced the implementation path for the […]
Asteroid pieces brought to Earth help reveal how our solar system’s planets and moons grew (Image Credit: Space.com) Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets and moons grow in our solar system. Analysis of three grains returned to Earth by […]
FAA creating new committee to update launch regulations (Image Credit: Space.com) U.S. launch regulations could soon get an overhaul. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced today (Nov. 14) that it’s creating a new committee to review and update its “Part 450” launch and reentry licensing rule. “The FAA is seeking to […]
NASA rockets seed artificial clouds below glowing auroras in Norway (photo) (Image Credit: Space.com) It’s not every day you get to watch a rocket launch into a sky glowing with colorful auroras — and it’s even rarer to see that rocket leave swirling clouds in its wake as part of a NASA […]
SpaceX rolls Starship Flight 6 Super Heavy rocket to pad ahead of Nov. 18 launch (photos) (Image Credit: Space.com) Both pieces of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket have made it to the launch pad ahead of their expected test flight on Monday (Nov. 18). SpaceX rolled Starship‘s huge first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, […]
