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The new rocket will make its first flight in the next few months, if all goes according to plan, sending a private lunar lander to the moon alongside two Amazon internet satellites. ” …

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“We simply couldn’t have observed these ices without Webb,” Klaus Pontoppidan, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute and an author of a new study describing the work, said in a statement.

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“With our expertise, we look forward to managing the project that will receive scientifically compelling Mars samples gathered by the NASA Perseverance rover.” Perseverance is currently collecting samples from Jezero Crater on Mars, which …

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Solar activity increased on Jan. 13 as massive active regions of the sun rounded its east limb to face Earth. The location of the active regions, designated NOAA 13169 and NOAA 13170, had been predicted previously by the Global Oscillation Network …

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NASA wants to design and demonstrate a working nuclear thermal rocket by 2027. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson introduced the project on Tuesday (Jan. 24) during a presentation at the 2023 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) …

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Venus and Saturn are still putting on a spectacle in the night sky. On Tuesday evening (Jan. 24), the pair will remain quite close together in the night sky following their conjunction on Sunday (Jan. 22). Unlike the weekend’s conjunction, however, …

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A newly discovered asteroid will come very close to Earth this week. Asteroid 2023 BU measures between 12 and 28 feet wide (3.8 to 8.5 meters), and was just discovered on Saturday (Jan. 21) by astronomer Gennadiy Borisov at the MARGO Observatory in …

CNN

An artist’s concept depicts the DRACO spacecraft, which will demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine. Nuclear thermal propulsion technology could be used for future NASA crewed missions to Mars. DARPA.

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During an expedition to Antarctica that concluded January 16, researchers found five meteorites, including one of the largest specimens (pictured) recovered from the continent. Maria Valdes.

Phys.Org

A commemorative plaque celebrating Galileo’s discovery of Jupiter’s moons has been unveiled on ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice. The spacecraft has just completed its final tests before departing Toulouse, France, for Europe’s Spaceport to count …