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Space.com

The supernova, which exploded when the 13.8-billion-year-old universe was just around 3.5 billion years old, tells us something about a huge problem in cosmology called the “Hubble tension.”.

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“Ongoing cracks and air leaks” in that Russian module are being examined by NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos, the report emphasized, but officials warned that the aging ISS needs several measures to keep operations going through at least the …

Spaceflight Now

United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket sits at launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) ahead of the planned Cert-2 launch on Oct. 4, 2024. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now. United Launch Alliance is preparing for its final planned test …

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The BepiColombo spacecraft may have only made rapid flybys of Mercury, but it is already helping to unravel mysteries surrounding the closest planet to the sun. In 2026, a European Space Agency (ESA)/ …

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On Oct. 3, the sun released the most powerful solar flare this solar cycle, a colossal X9.05 eruption. Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Scientific American

Sooner or later a doomsday asteroid will wipe out most life on Earth—unless, that is, we prevent threatening space rocks from hitting us in the first place. By Lee Billings. Illustration of a nuclear device being detonated in space in order to deflect …

Space.com

A torn up wheel close up image. An image of the Curiosity rover’s wheel, taken on September 22, 2024. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech …

Forbes

Here’s why it’s essential. Whenever there’s a total solar eclipse coming, eclipse-chasers must get into the path of totality — a projection of the moon’s central shadow, the umbra — onto the surface of Earth. Only from inside that path is the sun entirely …

Space.com

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is set to launch the second test flight of its Vulcan Centaur rocket on Friday morning (Oct. 4), and you can watch the action live online. Vulcan Centaur’s second mission, a test flight called Cert-2, is scheduled to lift …

Phys.Org

For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the sun’s global coronal magnetic field, a region of the sun that has only been observed irregularly in the past. The resulting observations are providing valuable insights into the …