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HOUSTON — On a humming museum floor, I came face-to-face with a NASA astronaut in the shadow of the moon. I was next to an image of Jessica Watkins, who in 2022 completed the first long-duration mission by a Black woman astronaut.

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On June 28, 2022, CAPSTONE launched into space on a dedicated rocket as the first mission of the Artemis program, ushering in a new generation of lunar exploration, development and settlement. With NASA’s leadership and …

Spaceflight Now

A European Ariane 5 rocket lifts off from the Guiana Space Center with the Juicy Icy Moons Explorer mission. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/JM Guillon. An Ariane 5 rocket took off from French Guiana Friday with the heaviest interplanetary science probe …

Spaceflight Now

After several delays to wait for improved weather, SpaceX sent a Falcon 9 rocket into space late Friday night from California’s Central Coast with 51 small satellites, payloads, and orbital transfer vehicles from customers around the world.

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Average distance: 40 minutes. Fastest spacecraft so far. An artist’s depiction of Parker Solar Probe studying the sun.

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This stunning wide field image captured by Vikas Chander shows what remains after an explosive death of a massive star — the Vela supernova remnant. The dramatic scene arose about 11,000 years ago when a star in the constellation Vela went supernova.

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SpaceX is counting down to its first ever launch of the world’s biggest rocket, its towering Starship vehicle, on April 17, but exactly when the rocket will fly depends on several factors. The …

Phys.Org

According to the traditional scientific narrative, Africa was once a verdant idyll of vast forests stretching from coast to coast. In these lush habitats, around 21 million years ago, the earliest ancestors of apes and humans …

Daily Beast

The LHC is a ring-shaped particle accelerator that was built, principally, to create Higgs bosons, the missing link—at the time—in the Standard Model of particle physics. Constructed in a tunnel …

Space Ref

Artificial Intelligence (AI) experts have been challenged to help a new space mission to investigate Earth’s place in the universe. The Ariel Data Challenge 2023, which launches on 14 April, is inviting AI and machine learning experts from industry and …