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The Planetary Society

Join us as we celebrate the successful launch of the European Space Agency’s Juice mission! Our special guest, project scientist Olivier Witasse, shares the thrilling details about the launch and the next steps for this groundbreaking mission to explore …

Spaceflight Now

The Japanese company, named ispace, lost communication with the Hakuto-R lander moments before its scheduled touchdown in Atlas crater, a 54-mile-wide (87-kilometer) impact basin on the near side of the moon. The spacecraft was on final approach for an …

Space.com

The new photo features the monstrous supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87), the first black hole ever directly imaged by humanity. The image shows precisely for …

Space.com

This could lead scientists to the discovery of what causes these bursts and also suggests that many more FRBs could eventually repeat than previously thought, team members said. Related …

Space.com

The Falcon Heavy is scheduled to lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today at 7:29 p.m. EDT (2329 GMT), carrying two satellites toward distant geostationary orbit. There is a 57-minute launch window available.

CNN

The supermassive black hole is at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, or M87. The observations were initially made in 2018 by combining the capabilities of multiple telescopes.

Space.com

Rocket Lab is preparing to launch four tiny NASA hurricane-studying satellites across two missions next month from the company’s Launch Complex 1 (LC-1) in New Zealand. The two TROPICS ( …

CNN

Astronomers used the Isaac Newton Telescope, located on La Palma, which is part of the Canary Islands in Spain. Their deep imaging observations revealed distorted structures in the outer regions of each galaxy that hosted a quasar.

SpaceNews

WASHINGTON — Lunar lander developer Astrobotic announced April 25 it will launch a third mission to the moon in 2026 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. Astrobotic said the mission, which currently is not part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) …

BBC News

Scientists have obtained their best satellite assessment yet of the status of the world’s glaciers. Europe’s Cryosat satellite tracked the 200,000 or so glaciers on Earth and found they have lost 2,720bn tonnes of ice in 10 years due to climate change.