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CNN

The space agency is still targeting a two-hour launch window on Wednesday, November 16, that begins at 1:04 a.m. ET for liftoff of Artemis I. It will mark the inaugural flight of the new Space Launch System rocket and send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a …

Space.com

NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket survived Tropical Storm Nicole’s wrath in good shape and remains on track to launch next Wednesday (Nov. 16) as planned, agency officials said. Nicole slammed into Florida’s Space Coast on Thursday (Nov.

CNET

Two galaxies in the foreground appear connected by a wispy, luminous bridge of interstellar dust. Arp 248 as seen in this Hubble image. ESA/Hubble & NASA, Dark Energy Survey/ …

Daily Beast

“It feels overly deterministic, as if the Great Filter is a physical law or a single looming force that confronts every rising technological civilization,” Wade Roush, a science lecturer and author of Extraterrestrials, told The Daily Beast. “We have no …

Phys.Org

Lanzarote’s geology can be uncannily similar to that of the Moon and Mars. Kneeling on the edge of a deep crater, astronaut Alexander Gerst uses a chisel to collect a sample of volcanic rock …

Phys.Org

Figure 1. Results from the observation of a field of NGC 1980. This is the ISR (instrument signature removal)-processed, sky-unsubtracted CCD image from a 300-second exposure of the red camera of the Spectrograph Module 1, clearly showing a number of …

Futurity: Research News

One puzzle known as the “radius valley” refers to the rarity of exoplanets with a radius about 1.8 times that of Earth. NASA’s Kepler spacecraft observed planets of this size about 2-3 times less frequently …

The Weather Channel

Is your phone full of dismal and negative news? Here, take a moment and gaze at this picture of a duck-like rock formation that NASA’s Curiosity rover stumbled across on Mars. You can relax now; this is a safe space. This picture was originally snapped …

Phys.Org

Developed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, JPSS-2 was placed into an orbit that circles the Earth from pole to pole, joining previously launched satellites in a system designed to improve weather forecasting and climate monitoring.

CNET

NASA’s a long way from shipping humans to the surface of Mars, but it’s busy preparing for that momentous day. On Thursday, the space agency conducted a successful flight test of a new inflatable heat shield design that could become a key component of …