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
Jared Isaacman, the billionaire founder of Shift4 Payments Inc. and a SpaceX astronaut, faced an intense round of questioning during his recent interview for the role of NASA Administrator, Bloomberg reported. The
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NASA has revealed new details from Mars that could provide tantalizing clues about the planet’s potential for life. Scientists studying clay-rich rocks on the edge of Jezero Crater—the site of an ancient
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Thirty years ago this week, astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz made a groundbreaking announcement: they had discovered the first planet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi, a discovery later published in
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NASA announced Tuesday that the first astronauts to travel to the Moon in more than half a century could launch as early as February 2025, moving up the timeline for the landmark
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India is working on a plan to strengthen its defenses in space by developing satellites capable of protecting its orbiting spacecraft from potential threats, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar
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Scientists have detected a surprising geological shift thousands of kilometres beneath Earth’s surface, near the boundary between the planet’s core and mantle. The change, which occurred between 2006 and 2008, was only
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A team led by Prof. Mao Jirong from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, alongside international collaborators, has provided compelling evidence of standing shocks in low-angular-momentum black hole accretion
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Commercial space companies are advancing rapidly in monitoring Earth’s environment, but scientists caution that private missions cannot replace government-operated satellites. A recent commentary in Nature argues that both public and commercial efforts
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A recent feature in New Scientist takes readers on an imaginative journey through the most remarkable events in the history—and future—of our solar system. From its violent birth to its distant, star-lit
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SpaceX is gearing up for another critical test of its massive Starship rocket on Sunday, a mission that Bloomberg reports comes amid mounting scrutiny following a string of high-profile failures this year.
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