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Spaceflight Now

NASA says the Psyche mission, a robotic asteroid explorer that missed a launch opportunity this year due to software testing problems, has been rescheduled for liftoff from Florida in October 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

Spaceflight Now

The first Falcon Heavy rocket flight since 2019 is scheduled Tuesday to kick off SpaceX’s longest-duration launch mission to date, a roughly six-hour climb into geosynchronous orbit more than 20,000 miles over the equator with a bundle of payloads for …

Spaceflight Now

The Atlas 5 rocket’s Centaur upper stage will place the JPSS 2 weather satellite into polar orbit for NOAA and NASA, then the rocket stage will perform a deorbit burn and deploy a joint ULA-NASA re-entry technology experiment named LOFTID, or the Low-Earth …

The Planetary Society

Space images surprise and delight us. Whether it’s a stunning vista seen by a planetary mission, a photographer’s snapshot of a rocket launch, or a space telescope’s view of distant galaxies, pictures of the Cosmos help us experience the wonder of …

USA TODAY

SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket took off Tuesday morning from Florida for a classified national security mission for the Space Force known as USSF-44. Despite thick fog around pad 39A, the three-core rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center at …

Smithsonian

While mapping minerals in Earth’s deserts, the agency’s new detector on the ISS spotted massive contributors to climate change. Will Sullivan. November 1, 2022 1:34 p.m.. A map showing the concentrations of methane above an emissions source southeast …

CNET

A bumblebee flies over bright yellow daisies. Getty Images. Bumblebees blocking the path from your house to your car? No problem. New research suggests an interesting …

Cornell Chronicle

Two populations of flycatchers that evolved on different remote islands separately developed the same trait – all-black feathers – according to a new study that used machine learning to understand the process that shaped the birds’ genome.

EarthSky

Our study shows that underground, early Mars would very likely have been habitable to methanogenic microbes. A Martian ecosystem. Could such an ecosystem have existed on Mars? To test this, the researchers …

Smithsonian

As a toddler might eagerly tell you, owls hoot, dogs bark and cows moo. But when it comes to turtles, for example, even scientists would have struggled to say what sound they make. Until now, researchers had assumed a whole slew of species were silent.