NASA will hold a community town hall meeting with Associate Administrator for Science Thomas Zurbuchen and his leadership team at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 6. The group will discuss updates to the agency’s science program and share the status of activities. Original Post
An Atlas V rocket lifted off Tuesday evening (Oct. 4) from Florida’s Space Coast, carrying two commercial communications satellites to orbit. The Atlas V, topped with the twin SES-20 and SES-21 spacecraft, launched Tuesday at 5:36 p.m. EDT (2136 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The 196-foot-tall (60 meters) rocket hit all of its …
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts will answer media questions at 11:55 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Oct. 11, about their time aboard the International Space Station. The event takes place prior to their return to Earth later this month. Original Post
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How would you like to explore the birthplaces of stars, giant clusters with millions of members, and even other galaxies from your own home? It’s all possible with one of the best telescopes for deep space. A telescope is an essential tool for the budding deep-sky explorer, offering a much greater light grasp than the …
SpaceX’s Crew-5 astronaut mission is still on target to launch Wednesday (Oct. 5), though there are a few caveats. NASA and SpaceX teams held a launch readiness review (LRR) today for Crew-5, which is scheduled to lift off from Pad 39A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Wednesday at noon EDT (1600 GMT). That …
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The hardware that will fly SpaceX’s next astronaut mission for NASA is poised and ready for liftoff. The Crew-5 mission is scheduled to launch at noon EDT (1600 GMT) on Wednesday (Oct. 5) from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, and team members have been checking off boxes in the leadup. …
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Something strange is afoot on a Martian helicopter. The Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, which is exploring Jezero Crater along with its rover partner Perseverance, had something stuck to its foot on a recent flight. Engineers caught the debris (opens in new tab) on camera during Ingenuity’s 33rd flight above the Red Planet in late September, and …
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Our universe may be fundamentally unstable. In a flash, the vacuum of space-time may find a new ground state, triggering a cataclysmic transformation of the physics of the universe. Or not. A new understanding inspired by string theory shows that our universe may be more stable than we previously thought. A broken universe Within the …
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(Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) This article was originally published at The Conversation. (opens in new tab) The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. A glowing blob known as “the cocoon,” which appears to be inside one of the enormous gamma-ray emanations from the center of our galaxy dubbed the “Fermi …
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