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Spaceflight Now

A $210 million NASA mission to improve air pollution monitoring over North America is set to launch Friday with an Intelsat communications satellite blasting off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral. NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring …

Space.com

The first astronaut crew set to visit the moon in over 50 years just made a few publicity pit stops on Earth. NASA announced on Monday (April 3) that agency astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canada’s Jeremy Hansen will fly …

The Planetary Society

The European Space Agency is preparing to launch a mission to uncover the secrets of Jupiter’s icy moons. Juice, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, is currently scheduled to lift off on Thursday, April 13 at 8:15 a.m. EDT (12:15 UTC).

CNN

Medieval observations of the moon are helping present-day researchers study a mysterious cluster of volcanic eruptions on Earth. Monks, and other scribes from the era, made detailed descriptions of lunar eclipses, when the …

Space.com

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured an amazing image of Uranus, showing in great detail the ice giant’s ring system, its brightest moons and its dynamic atmosphere. The new observation, made on Feb. 6, follows a similarly stunning photo …

Space.com

Fortunately, the meaty space rock will miss our planet by more than a million miles. Astronomers estimate that the asteroid, named 2023 FM, measures somewhere between 393 and 853 feet (120 to …

Space.com

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer probe, or JUICE for short, is scheduled to lift off atop an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana at 8:15 a.m. EDT (1215 GMT) on April 13.

Phys.Org

Exotic cosmic objects known as ultra-luminous X-ray sources produce about 10 million times more energy than the sun. They’re so radiant, in fact, that they appear to surpass a physical boundary called the Eddington limit, which puts a cap on how bright …

Space.com

The hypothetical situation laid out by Chodas begins on January 10, 2023, with the discovery of a new asteroid that receives the name 2023 PDC. The object is initially designated a “potentially hazardous asteroid” ( …

EarthSky

NASA published this original article on April 5, 2023. Edits by EarthSky. Both scientists and the public can navigate a new global image of the red planet from Caltech using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter …