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The European Space Agency (ESA) recently performed an assisted/semi-controlled descent of its retired Aeolus, a wind-studying spacecraft lofted into Earth orbit in 2018. Mission scientists and engineers took on the tricky task of targeting a remote …

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In 1846, French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier predicted the existence of yet another planet more distant than Uranus. Once it was discovered, the community looked to Le Verrier for a name. At first, he suggested “Neptune” (which was also a contender for …

The New York Times

To better study these rogue worlds, David Bennett, an astronomer at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and his team used nine years of data from the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics telescope at the University of Canterbury Mount John …

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Boeing’s new astronaut taxi for NASA won’t carry people this year after all. The company had been targeting July 21 for the first-ever crewed launch of its Starliner capsule on a mission, known as Crew Flight Test (CFT), that will send NASA astronauts …

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At New York’s Hayden Planetarium where I’ve spent the last 37 years serving in the role as an Associate and Guest Lecturer, lately we’ve been getting an increasing number of phone calls making basically the same inquiry. A typical call goes something …

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SpaceX plans to launch 15 more of its Starlink internet satellites tonight (Aug. 7), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight …

BBC News

India’s space agency has released the first images of the Moon taken by the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, which entered the lunar orbit on Saturday. The images show the craters on the lunar surface getting larger and larger as the spacecraft draws closer.

Smithsonian

This weekend, sky conditions will be almost perfect to catch a glimpse of shooting stars during one of the year’s best celestial shows. Carlyn Kranking. Assistant Editor, Science and Innovation. August 7, 2023 1:51 p.m. …

USA TODAY

All it took was for the ground team to send an interstellar “shout” across more than 12.3 billion miles instructing the historic probe launched in the 1970s to explore the far reaches of space to turn its antenna back to Earth.

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This knowledge could help humans plan for future infrastructure projects, and future natural disasters. Comments (0). View of mars captured by the perseverance rover showing bands of light-colored rock in the reddish dirt, presumably indicated ancient …