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
China has successfully tested a groundbreaking satellite refueling system in low Earth orbit, demonstrating capabilities that could transform space operations and commercial satellite servicing. The Hukeda-2, also known as Yuxing-3 06, carried
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The formation of our solar system’s rocky planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars—may have been far more complex than previously thought. For decades, scientists assumed that these planets coalesced from a single disc
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NASA has announced an ambitious $20 billion plan to establish a permanent human presence on the Moon, marking a historic step in space exploration. During a briefing on Tuesday, NASA Administrator Jared
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NASA is revising its Artemis moon-landing plans, reducing Boeing Co.’s Space Launch System (SLS) role while elevating SpaceX’s Starship rocket to carry astronauts to lunar orbit, according to people familiar with the
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Astronomers at the University of Oxford have announced the discovery of a planet so extreme it evokes visions of literal hell. Known only as L 98-59d, the world is cloaked in a
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For the first time, scientists have observed the creation of one of the universe’s most extreme objects — a dense, rapidly spinning magnetar with a magnetic field trillions of times stronger than
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In a milestone for space exploration and off-world agriculture, researchers in Texas have successfully grown chickpeas in simulated lunar soil for the first time. Using soil mixtures containing up to 75 percent
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SpaceX says it expects its flagship Starship rocket to be ready by mid-2027 to launch a new fleet of upgraded Starlink satellites, marking a pivotal step in the company’s commercial expansion and
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French container shipping group CMA CGM announced it will test Eutelsat’s OneWeb satellite broadband network alongside Elon Musk’s Starlink across its fleet of roughly 350 vessels. Under a two-year contract, the company
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NASA said its next-generation moon rocket encountered another technical setback on Saturday, jeopardising a launch that was intended to send astronauts on humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than 50 years. The
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