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France’s telecom regulator, Arcep, awarded SpaceX the license in February 2021 without first conducting a public consultation, the court determined. The court appeal was led by two environmental organizations that cited possible …

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If you think sunrises on Earth are amazing, wait until you see one on Mars. This stunning view comes from NASA’s InSight Mars lander, which snapped images of the Martian sunrise on April 10. “I’ll never tire of sunrise on Mars,” NASA officials wrote in …

Spaceflight Now

The rover’s long-range zoom camera captured an image of the orange-and-white parachute lying on the rust-colored Martian soil. The craft’s back shell, which helped shield Perseverance during its plunge into the Martian atmosphere last year, is visible near …

CNN

The mission team is fueling the 322-foot-tall (98-meter-tall) Artemis I rocket stack, including NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, albeit with some delays. If you’re watching the live view of the rocket, …

CNN

Rising above the horizon, the full moon or pink supermoon is seen from Eindhoven, Netherlands, on April 27, 2021. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science …

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“Barbie has a long history with space exploration, having introduced an astronaut doll in 1965 before humans even stepped foot on the moon, so the idea of Barbie going to space has been top of mind for a while!” …

Scientific American

More than 5,000 exoplanets have already been discovered in the Milky Way, mostly with NASA’s Kepler telescope, which was in use for 9 years before it ran out of fuel in 2018. Some of the planets were rocky Earth-like bodies orbiting small red-dwarf stars, …

Scientific American

A colossal simulation of the past two million years of Earth’s climate provides evidence that temperature and other planetary conditions influenced early human migration — and possibly contributed to the emergence of the modern-day human species around …

Space.com

The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity aced its 25th flight on the Red Planet last Friday (April 8), setting new personal bests for speed and distance. “#MarsHelicopter …

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Frost extends across the surface of a southern crater on Mars in a new photo of the Red Planet. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) onboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured the image of Mars’ frosty surface8, …