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Space.com

The Leonid meteors are debris shed into space by the Tempel-Tuttle comet, which swings through the inner solar system at intervals of 33.25 years. With each visit the comet leaves behind a trail of dust in its wake.

Spaceflight Now

The 301st and final Atlas rocket to launch from California blasted off Thursday with a NOAA weather satellite and first-of-its-kind re-entry tech demo experiment, clearing the way for modifications to ready the Atlas launch pad for United Launch Alliance’s …

Space.com

NASA still aims to launch its Artemis 1 moon rocket on Wednesday (Nov. 16), but a few boxes must be checked first. Artemis 1, which will send an uncrewed Orion capsule to lunar orbit using a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, is scheduled to lift off …

Spaceflight Now

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION. NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket and Orion spacecraft on Launch Complex 39B. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky. NASA managers cleared the agency’s leak-bedeviled Artemis moon rocket for the start of another …

Phys.Org

The PandaX Collaboration, a large consortium of researchers in China involved in the PandaX-4T experiment, has recently carried out a study aimed at extending the sensitive mass window for experiments aimed at directly detecting fermionic DM from above GeV …

Astronomy Magazine

The space shuttle Atlantis was one of the last major launches aboard a NASA rocket. NASA. I love a good space launch, and I have been eagerly awaiting NASA’s powerful new …

Phys.Org

A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young solar system started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets growing at the same time as their parent star. A study of some of the oldest stars in the …

Florida Today

But managers still need to continue discussions about how to resolve two hardware concerns related to the Space Launch System rocket and uncrewed Orion capsule. Otherwise, there were no outstanding issues in the way.

CNET

Arp 248 as seen in this Hubble image. ESA/Hubble & NASA, Dark Energy Survey/Department of Energy/Fermilab Cosmic Physics Center/Dark Energy Camera/Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory …

Maui Now

A University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo professor is leading a team of scientists to 3D map the planet’s premier surf breaks to help better protect reefs around the world. Professors John H.R. Burns (UH Hilo), …