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Space.com

Japan sent two ambitious missions soaring into the heavens today (Sept. 6) — a pioneering lunar lander and a powerful X-ray space telescope. A Japanese H-2A rocket carrying the SLIM moon lander and the XRISM space telescope lifted off from Tanegashima …

Space.com

Astrophotographers worldwide have been snapping incredible photos of Comet Nishimura as it makes its way through the solar system. The comet was discovered in August 2023 by amateur astronomer Hideo Nishimura of Kakegawa City, Japan using a Canon DSLR …

Space.com

The week-long shredding offers a long-sought missing link between very rapid and once-a-year disruption events, astronomers say. Comments (0). A blurry central circle shines orange/yellow amidst a cloudy haze. A white circle.

CNN

Humanized kidney cells inside a pig embryo are shown in red. Miguel A. Esteban and Liangxue Lai. Editor’s note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory …

Space.com

a white rocket is rolled toward a launch pad with greenery along the sides and the. United Launch Alliance rolls an Atlas V rocket to the launch pad on Sept. 7, 2023 …

CNN

The first experiment to produce oxygen on another planet has come to an end on Mars after exceeding NASA’s initial goals and demonstrating capabilities that could help future astronauts explore the red planet. The microwave-size device …

The Planetary Society

It will make its closest pass by Earth on Sept. 12, 2023, and then will carry on toward the Sun. Observers on Earth can easily see Comet Nishimura with a telescope or binoculars, but …

SpaceNews

WASHINGTON — A NASA mission to a large metallic asteroid is on track to launch in October after more than a year of delays, but the mission faces a potential challenge to those plans beyond the agency’s control. At a Sept. 6 briefing, project officials …

NPR

The launch of the HII-A rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan was shown on live video by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA. “We have a liftoff,” the …

Space.com

Observing a distant quasar powered by a supermassive black hole could help better constrain the properties of this mysterious form of matter. Comments (1). A diagram shows light from the quasar being gravitationally lensed revealing the distribution of …