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A new study from the Pew Research Center polled U.S. citizens to gauge what they expect of spaceflight over the next 50 years. The survey gathered general opinions on NASA’s continued role as a leader in space exploration, …

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Avi Loeb is back. The former chair of the Harvard Astronomy Department recently returned from an expedition to the Pacific Ocean near Papua New Guinea that dragged a magnetic sled across the seafloor in an attempt to find fragments of what Loeb claims …

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Just 20% of the satellite is expected to survive reentry, with the other 80% burning up in Earth’s atmosphere. Comments (0). An illustration of the Aeolus satellite as it approaches Earth with gathering speed (Image credit: ESA).

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While routinely scanning the sky for the burnt-out remnants of dying stars, scientists stumbled upon a strange cosmic signal. After running a few more tests, they were stunned. One of their observed stellar corpses, a white dwarf star more than 1,000 …

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Thanks to some stunning Hubble Space Telescope observations, scientists continue to be surprised by NASA’s DART mission – this time in the form of a swarm of boulders that appears to have been knocked loose from the targeted asteroid upon impact.

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Melting ice on a small tundra pond in Greenland. Josh Brown/University of Vermont. CNN —. A recently …

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China is planning to launch a next-generation crewed spacecraft around 2027 that will be capable of carrying astronauts to the moon and even beyond. “In the future, a new generation of spacecraft will be used on crewed lunar missions, to build our …

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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, weighing about 1,200 pounds (544 kilograms), slammed head-on into Dimorphos at 13,000 miles per hour (20,921 kilometers per hour) on September 26, 2022, to change the space rock’s velocity.

Spaceflight Now

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is lifted off Wednesday night/Thursday morning carrying the first batch of second-generation Starlink satellites to be lofted from the West Coast. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base occurred …

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An artist’s illustration depicts an ultra-long period magnetar, a rare type of star with extremely strong magnetic fields that can produce powerful bursts of energy. ICRAR.