Scientists Test New Spacecraft Thruster That Uses No Fuel, Just Earth’s Magnetic Field, in Orbit
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Wally Funk, aviation pioneer and oldest woman to go into space, dies at 87 | US news
Wally Funk, a trailblazing aviation pioneer who was denied the opportunity to become a Nasa astronaut and half…
NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Anil Menon Launch to Space Station
NASA astronaut Anil Menon will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft to the International Space Station on…
Scientists have discovered the oldest quasar ever seen, and it shines with the light of a trillion suns
Using the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope, astronomers have discovered a treasure trove of 31 black-hole-powered quasars…
NASA Space Telescope Maps Magnetic Fields of ‘Lighthouse’ Pulsar
For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) to directly measure the magnetic…
SpaceX wants to launch 100,000 Starlink satellites to orbit
SpaceX is nothing if not ambitious. Elon Musk‘s company just filed an application with the U.S. Federal Communications…
Principal Investigator and Quality Assessment Reports Evaluate Umbra Synthetic Aperture Radar Data
Two new reports from NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program evaluate data from the Umbra X-band Synthetic…
Ultra-Black Coating Could Mitigate Light Pollution Caused by Satellites
There’s no doubt about it: the skies are filling up with satellites that regularly pass overhead, creating light…
LEGO Hubble Space Telescope Set Celebrates Three Iconic Hubble Photos
I have loved LEGO since I was a child, just coming to grips with fine motor control. I…
‘Reckless’ space-based data centers lack environmental review, drawing criticism
Environmental and scientific organizations are banding together to demand federal environmental reviews of space-based data center projects, which…
‘Astronomers have to revise estimates’: The Milky Way may be larger, heavier and more lopsided than we realized
Two of the Milky Way‘s gigantic spiral arms appear to be much farther away than we realized, scientists…
A Chinese Spacecraft Captures First Image of Quasi-Moon
This week, astronomers are seeing double. Just a day after Japan’s spacecraft flew by a strange, two-lobed asteroid…