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Spaceflight Now

The Hubble Space Telescope in the payload bay of space shuttle Atlantis during the last servicing mission in May 2009. Credit: NASA. NASA and SpaceX will study the potential use of a commercial Dragon crew spacecraft to reboost and service the Hubble …

Space.com

Celebrate our lunar neighbor this Saturday (Oct. 1) with International Observe the Moon Night 2022! The worldwide event takes place every year and provides “opportunities to learn about lunar science and exploration, observe celestial bodies and honor …

The New York Times

If you’ve got a telescope in danger of falling out of orbit, who are you going to call? The United States Space Force? Nope. NASA? Maybe not. Billionaires? Apparently, that is indeed a possibility. The billionaires in question are Elon Musk, …

BBC News

Nasa and the SpaceX rocket company are to study the feasibility of running a private astronaut mission to extend the life of the Hubble telescope. The orbiting observatory, one of the greatest instruments in the history of science, is gradually losing …

CNET

This ground-based image of the Large Magellanic Cloud was taken by the German astrophotographer Eckhard Slawik. Eckhard Slawik/ESA/Hubble. Just a space train …

CNET

Scientists may have found chemical proof of the universe’s first stars, also known as Population III stars, lurking in a distant quasar. Why it matters. Population III stars have never been seen by humanity, but they could be key for understanding the …

CNET

Something’s going on under the frozen south polar ice cap on Mars, but scientists can’t agree on what. A new study revisits the idea that Mars is hiding liquid water under all that ice. It’s an exciting concept, though it’s far from settled.

Phys.Org

The characteristics of such collisions are believed to play a role in the resulting makeup of the resulting planets, such as their tilt angle. Prior research has also shown that Earth has a core of iron and nickel—surrounding that is a layer of iron …

CNET

Astronomers may’ve found chemical proof of the universe’s first stars, also known as Population III stars, lurking in a distant quasar. Why it matters. Population III stars have never been seen by humanity, but they could be key for understanding the …

Space.com

Advanced artificial intelligence has identified thousands of possible “gravitational lenses” — warps in space-time predicted by Albert Einstein — promising to enhance our understanding of dark matter and the evolution of galaxies.