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“If you hold up your hand in deep space, how much light does the universe shine on it?” study lead author Marc Postman, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, said in a statement. “We now have a good idea of just how dark …

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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Salsa satellite safely deorbited on Sunday (Sept. 8) over a hand-picked region of the South Pacific Ocean, in a carefully guided reentry that agency officials have applauded as the world’s first. Salsa was one of a …

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Unless Voyager 1 could make a switch to a different thruster set, the 47-year-old spacecraft would sail on alone without help from Earth. Making matters worse, Voyager 1 is so old that sudden changes could damage the spacecraft.

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Polaris Dawn may be a private mission, but it’s conducting research that will benefit NASA. Polaris Dawn lifted off early Tuesday morning (Sept. 10) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, sending four people to orbit for a roughly five-day stay aboard the Crew …

CNN

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Resilience capsule, carrying the crew of the Polaris Dawn mission, lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday.

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SpaceX has given us a detailed look at their stylish and innovative new extravehicular activity suit ahead of it being worn during the Polaris Dawn mission’s first-ever private spacewalk. Two astronauts aboard the five-day SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, …

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A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) this afternoon after a brief orbital chase. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA’s Don Pettit and Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner of the Russian space …

The New York Times

After launching early on Tuesday, the billionaire Jared Isaacman and his crew traveled to altitudes not visited by any astronaut since the Apollo moon missions of the 1960s and ’70s.

Scientific American

At their core, atomic clocks and nuclear clocks work using the same principle. Atoms can become “excited” when they’re hit by photons packing just the right punch—that is, waves of light at a very specific energy level, or frequency.

Space.com

The first-ever private spacewalk will happen early Thursday morning (Sept. 12), and you can watch the historic action live. The pioneering extravehicular activity (EVA) will be conducted by Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis, two members of the …