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Virgin Orbit is buying 2 more rocket-launching planes

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has rolled into a patch of ground that could shed considerable light on the Red Planet's climate history.

Hubble Space Telescope studies peculiar 'ultra-diffuse galaxy' (photo)

If skies are clear this weekend, we’ll see the full Moon. And not just any old full Moon, but the Blue Moon — the “true” Blue Moon.

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NASA visitor complex to open immersive 'Gateway' to deep space in 2022

If skies are clear this weekend, you'll see the full Moon. And not just any old full Moon, but the Blue Moon . . . the "true" Blue Moon!

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SpaceX's Crew-3 astronaut launch for NASA delayed by 'minor medical issue'

Four concepts are competing to be NASA’s next flagship mission. From exo-Earths to X-rays, what will the future hold?

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Gaia Finds Ancient Satellite Galaxy Pontus Embedded in Milky Way

The Mercury-bound BepiColombo spacecraft recorded the sound of the solar wind at Venus as it flew just 340 miles above the planet during a maneuver designed to adjust its path.

Here’s Perseverance, Seen From Space

On Aug. 9, Maxar Technologies' WorldView-3 satellite snapped a great shot of SpaceX's "Starbase" facility, where the company is building and testing its Starship deep-space transportation system.

Russia will launch a film crew to the International Space Station Tuesday and you can watch it live

NASA and Star Trek are teaming up to celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry today in a webcast event.

It’ll Soon be Possible to Make Satellite Phone Calls With Your Regular Phone

The solar system's largest planet reaches opposition today (Aug. 19).

NASA awards $415 million for private space stations amid ISS transition questions

Arianespace will launch dozens of internet satellites for the communications company OneWeb today (Aug. 19), and you can watch the liftoff live.

Greenhouses Probably won’t Work on Mars Because of Cosmic Radiation. Even the Plants Will Have to Live Underground

Mars is a lifeless wasteland for more than one reason.  Not only are the temperatures and lack of water difficult for life to deal with, the lack of a magnetic field means radiation constantly pummels the surface.  If humans ever plan to spend prolonged periods of time on the red planet, they’ll need to support an additional type of life – crops.  However, it appears that even greenhouses on the surface won’t do enough to protect their plants from the deadly radiation of the Martian surface, at least according to a new paper published by researchers at Wageningen University and the Delft University of Technology.

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Maxar satellite images show thousands of people at Kabul airport

Maxar’s WorldView 3 satellite captured this view of Hamid Karzai International Airport on Monday, Aug. 16. The view shows crowds gathered around parked aircraft. Credit: Satellite image ©2021 Maxar Technologies

Maxar’s WorldView 3 commercial imaging satellite captured overhead views of the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, earlier this week as thousands of people converged on the runway and gathered near aircraft after the Taliban militants took control of the capital city.

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Musk Says That Refueling Starship for Lunar Landings Will Take 8 Launches (Maybe 4)

The fight over who gets to take the Artemis astronauts back to the Moon continues! It all began when NASA announced that they had awarded the contract for its Human Landing System (HLS), the reusable lunar lander that would ferry the Artemis III astronauts to the lunar surface. This decision did not sit well with the other two finalists, Blue Origin and Dynetics, who appealed the decision because NASA was showing “favoritism.”

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin targeting Aug. 25 for next spaceflight

Blue Origin is targeting Aug. 25 for the next flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle, company representatives announced today (Aug. 18).

Lego Education unveils Spike Essentials to teach kids STEAM subjects

Lego Education has unveiled Spike Essentials as part of its Lego learning system to help teachers and encourage students in STEAM subjects.

Siberian wildfires double greenhouse gas emission record: This is how they look from space.

Wildfires in Siberia have produced 800 megatons of carbon dioxide since the beginning of June, nearly doubling last year's record, according to estimates.

What is the speed of light?

The speed of light puts a speed limit on matter, lets us peer back into the history of our universe, and has deep implications for physics and space travel.

You can Tell how big a Black Hole is by how it Eats

Black holes don’t emit light, which makes them difficult to study. Fortunately, many black holes are loud eaters. As they consume nearby matter, surrounding material is superheated. As a result, the material can glow intensely, or be thrown away from the black hole as relativistic jets. By studying the light from this material we can study black holes. And as a recent study shows, we can even determine their size.

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SpaceX Starlink satellites responsible for over half of close encounters in orbit, scientist says

SpaceX's Starlink satellites are involved in about 1,600 close encounters between two spacecraft in low Earth orbit every week, according to available data. That’s about 50% of all such incidents.

Ingenuity Sees Perseverance From Above

Where’s Waldo (or Where’s Wally) is a very popular book series for all ages.  One way to make it potentially more interesting is to adapt it to interplanetary exploration by searching for a Martian rover in a picture taken from a Martian helicopter.  Ingenuity took a picture on its eleventh flight that would be a worthy addition to any interplanetary search game – in this image, the goal is to find Perseverance.  

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