NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 7:05 a.m. EDT Sunday, Oct. 13, for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to undock from the International Space Station. Pending weather conditions, the earliest splashdown time is targeted for 3:38 p.m....

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Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was about 44 million miles away from Earth in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 272 miles above the South Pacific Ocean southeast of New Zealand just before sunrise on Sept....

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Prioritizing health is important on Earth, and it’s even more important in space. Exploring beyond the Earth’s surface exposes humans to conditions that can impact blood pressure, bone density, immune health, and much more. With this in mind, two...

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A valve designed for NASA rover landings enables effective stage separations for commercial spaceflight

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Terrifying images captured by a NASA satellite reveal the terrifying plumes of greenhouse gases swirling above our heads.

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Terrifying images captured by a NASA satellite reveal the terrifying plumes of greenhouse gases swirling above our heads.

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“My mom had to leave school after 9th grade to support her family, but she always emphasized the importance of education. And with a lot of sacrifices, got us an encyclopedia in Spanish, ‘Enciclopedia de Las Ciencias’. By getting...

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Week in images: 07-11 October 2024 Discover our week through the lens

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Perhaps you’re a propulsion engineer making lunar landers as part of NASA’s CLPS program. Perhaps you’re a lawyer specializing in the OST. Or you are a chemist cracking the codes […] The post Planning our lunar return? Get a...

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The sparkling scene depicted in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is of the spiral galaxy NGC 5248, located 42 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Boötes. It is also known as Caldwell 45. The Caldwell catalog holds...

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HELSINKI — China’s first retrievable and reusable satellite returned to Earth late Thursday following two weeks of experiments in low Earth orbit. The Shijian-19 satellite touched down at 10:39 p.m. […] The post Shijian-19 reusable satellite lands after 2...

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James Webb Space Telescope scientists have detected an exoplanet with a water-rich atmosphere, making it the first confirmed "steam world."

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SpaceX plans to launch a new-age space station, called Haven-1, for the company Vast in 2025. Here's what the futuristic capsule looks like.

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Image: Resembling a Martian-like surface, this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows part of the Hardap region in south-central Namibia on the western edge of the Kalahari Desert.

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SpaceX announced a new capability for the Dragon spacecraft on Sept. 27 in the unlikely… The post Dragon receives long-planned propulsive landing upgrade after years of development appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.

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The United Arab Emirates will launch a mission to visit several asteroids later this decade on a Japanese H3 rocket. The post Japan’s H3 to launch Emirati asteroid mission appeared first on SpaceNews.

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Washington, D.C – The Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) announced the addition of its newest Associate Member, Aetherflux, a new aerospace company focused on building a commercial space-based solar power business. Aetherflux is […] The post Aetherflux joins Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF)...

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NASA invites the public to virtually sail along with the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System‘s space journey using NASA’s “Eyes on the Solar System” visualization tool, a digital model of the solar system. This simulation shows the real-time positions of the planets,...

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A CNN panel acknowledged where the Democrats messed up their relationship with Elon Musk and admitted they should have celebrated him.

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