On a cloudless night in August, a lawn chair offered a simple vantage point for watching the sky. It was the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, when as many as 100
Sir Richard Branson has expressed his strong desire to launch Virgin Galactic spaceflights from UK soil, a move that has been met with enthusiasm by Spaceport Cornwall officials. Currently operating from New
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NASA has successfully launched its latest space-based telescope, the SPHEREx observatory, designed to create a groundbreaking 3D map of the cosmos and explore the fundamental questions of our universe’s origins. The Spectro-Photometer
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The article from Nature highlights the uncertain fate of the Athena lunar lander, which touched down on the Moon on 6 March in an unexpected orientation. Built by Intuitive Machines, Athena was
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SpaceX’s highly anticipated Starship rocket suffered a catastrophic failure on Thursday, exploding in midair just minutes after launch. This marks the second consecutive failure for the ambitious spacecraft, dealing a setback to
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Jeff Bezos is transforming Blue Origin with a no-nonsense, high-pressure approach similar to Amazon’s corporate culture as he aims to close the gap with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The billionaire’s hands-on involvement has
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Firefly Aerospace has become the second private company in history to successfully land a spacecraft on the Moon, as its Blue Ghost robotic lander touched down on Sunday. The Texas-based company’s mission,
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New findings from China’s Zhurong rover suggest that Mars may have once been home to sunlit beaches with lapping waves and a warmer climate. Ground-penetrating radar aboard the rover uncovered layers of
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The possibility of an asteroid collision with Earth has always lingered as a distant yet terrifying threat. While the most recent scare over asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines with concerns about its
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China has unveiled a new laser camera system that outperforms the current best spy cameras, including those manufactured by US defense giant Lockheed Martin. This high-tech camera, recently tested near Qinghai Lake,
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A large fragment of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket made an unexpected and uncontrolled re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, crash-landing onto a man’s lawn in Poland, the country’s space agency confirmed on Wednesday.
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