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Space.com

New Hubble observations of the symbiotic binary system HM Sge, which went nova in 1975, finds its temperature to be increasing. Comments (0). a galactic disc of gas sucks the light off a closer red star. An artist’s impression of the HM Sge system, …

Space.com

Humanity has lost an interstellar pioneer. Ed Stone, who served as the project scientist for NASA’s groundbreaking Voyager mission from 1972 to 2022, died on Sunday (June 9) at the age of 88. “Ed Stone was a trailblazer who dared mighty things in space …

Spaceflight Now

The Ship 29 upper stage of the fully integrated Starship rocket as seen before its fourth flight test on June 6, 2024. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now. The Federal Aviation Administration is preparing to gather public input on SpaceX Starship …

Space.com

Astrophysicist Jack Burns of the University of Colorado Boulder described the moment as the “dawn of radio astronomy from the moon.” Comments (0). Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus moon lander beamed home this selfie on Feb. 16, 2024, a day after launching …

The New York Times

An extensive examination of medical data gathered from the private Inspiration4 mission in 2021 revealed temporary cognitive declines and genetic changes in the crew.

Space.com

Boeing’s Starliner capsule continues to get a thorough going-over during its first-ever astronaut mission. Starliner launched on June 5, carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station (ISS) on a shakeout …

Space.com

The aging but tenacious Hubble Space Telescope has beamed back yet another stunning photo of a distant galaxy. Hubble’s latest view captures the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3059, which lies about 57 million …

Space.com

The company calls its upcoming Nova launch vehicle the “most robust, fully and rapidly reusable medium-lift rocket in the world.” a rocket engine sits horizontally on a test stand outside, belching hot fire. Stoke Space conducts a hot fire engine test …

Los Angeles Times

Ed Stone, the scientist who guided NASA’s breakthrough Voyager mission to the outer planets for 50 years and led the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when it landed its first rover on Mars, died Tuesday. He was 88. A physicist who got in on the ground floor …

Phys.Org

The aerosol-cloud-interaction is affected by cloud-surface coupling, or the ways in which clouds interact with the Earth’s surface and its atmospheric boundary layer. Traditionally, studies of aerosol-cloud interactions haven’t considered the connection …