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Your name can fly around the moon on NASA's Artemis 1 mission
NASA is inviting people to put their names on a flash drive that will launch on the agency's Artemis 1 mission, which will send an uncrewed Orion capsule around the moon and back a few months from now.
SpaceX to launch 47 Starlink satellites, land rocket Thursday morning: Watch it live
SpaceX will launch 47 satellites and land the returning rocket on Thursday morning (March 3), and you can watch the action live.
Rocket crashing into the moon Friday: What to know
There's some dispute about what kind of rocket stage will strike the far side of the moon on March 4.
Physicists create bizarre quantum 'domain walls' in new experiment
Strange 'domain walls' act like independent quantum object in the new experiment.
OneWeb pulls employees out of Baikonur Cosmodrome after Russian demands: report
OneWeb told its staff to leave the Russian-run site on Wednesday (March 2), a company executive told SpaceNews.
Live coverage: SpaceX ready for another launch Thursday morning
A package of 47 more Starlink internet satellites is set for launch Thursday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX is scheduled to launch the satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 9:35 a.m. EST (1435 GMT).
The Expanding Debris Cloud From the Kilonova Tells the Story of What Happens When Neutron Stars Collide
When two neutron stars collide, it creates a kilonova. The event causes both gravitational waves and emissions of electromagnetic energy. In 2017 the LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave observatories detected a merger of two neutron stars about 130 million light-years away in the galaxy NGC 4993. The merger is called GW170817, and it remains the only cosmic event observed in both gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation.
SpaceX preps for another Starlink launch as internet terminals arrive in Ukraine
A Falcon 9 rocket stands on launch pad 39A Wednesday. Credit: Spaceflight Now
SpaceX wheeled a Falcon 9 rocket and 47 internet satellites to a launch pad Wednesday at Kennedy Space Center, ready to blast off Thursday to reinforce the Starlink constellation days after SpaceX expanded the network into Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion of the country.
Scientists gearing up for rocket body's March 4 moon crash
A wayward rocket stage is poised to bombard the moon on Friday (March 4), and the coming impact has earned some scientific attention.
Ukrainians urge satellites to publicly share real-time images of the Russian invasion
On the morning of February 24th, after years of proxy conflict in the border region, Russia invaded the neighboring country of Ukraine. This invasion was the culmination of eight years of conflict that began with the removal of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (a long-time ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin) and Russia’s subsequent annexation of Crimea. This invasion has prompted the global community to mobilize and find ways to support Ukraine!
Russia issues ultimatum to UK government over OneWeb launch
The Soyuz rocket’s payload fairing containing OneWeb’s next 36 satellites. Credit: Roscosmos
Russia’s space agency said Wednesday it will not launch a batch of 36 OneWeb satellites this week unless the UK government gives up its stake in the satellite internet company, a prospect the UK business secretary later confirmed won’t happen.
How will Ukraine keep SpaceX's Starlink internet service online?
SpaceX's Starlink internet is now active in Ukraine. But how will they keep it online?
Russia-Ukraine War: Impacts on Space
Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has far-reaching consequences for spaceflight and the international space community.
The Best way to Leave the Solar System Might be to fly Uncomfortably Close to the Sun
We’ve reported before on the conceptual mission known as the Interstellar Probe. This ambitious mission would visit the interstellar medium about 1,000 AU away from the Sun. But how exactly would the probe get there in a reasonable time frame? It has taken Voyager 35 years to travel less than 10% of that distance. The answer might lie in an old technology that has been given new life by advances in material science – the solar thermal propulsion system.
Ukraine's proud space industry faces obliteration, but country's former space chief has hope for the future
Ukraine has a mighty space industry whose Zenit rocket is Elon Musk's favorite. But the country's potential might soon lie in ruins together with its dreams as Russia continues its bloody siege.
Distant galaxies appear to overlap in new Hubble telescope image
A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows two deceivingly close galaxies located in the constellation Virgo.
Ion Engines Could Work on Earth too, to Make Silent, Solid-State Aircraft
Ion engines are the best technology for sending spacecraft on long missions. They’re not suitable for launching spacecraft against powerful gravity, but they require minimal propellant compared to rockets, and they drive spacecraft to higher velocities over extended time periods. Ion thrusters are also quiet, and their silence has some scientists wondering if they could use them on Earth in applications where noise is undesirable.
Largest shock wave in the universe is 60 times larger than the Milky Way, new study finds
A new study shows what happens when the two largest objects in the universe collide.
Stonehenge may have been used as a solar calendar
Stonehenge may have been used as a solar calendar, with each of the stones representing a day and sections of the circle of stones possibly corresponding to weeks.
Scientists uncover the largest crater on Earth under 100,000 years old
A crescent-shaped crater in Northeast China holds the record as the largest impact crater on Earth that formed in the last 100,000 years.
