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This week offers multiple opportunities to get a great look at the Red Planet. On Wednesday (Dec. 7), the full moon will be in close proximity to a bright Mars during an event known as a lunar occultation. And on…
NASA’s Orion spacecraft had a brief power problem on Sunday (Dec. 4) just hours before successfully completing a crucial engine burn near the moon. A power unit on board the Orion spacecraft turned off four devices “responsible for downstream power”…
The turbulent season finale of “Andor” came and went and we’re still basking in the afterglow of this sensational 12-episode “Star Wars” series on Disney+. Using a minimalist style that operates within the “less is more” arena of filmmaking, creator…
Ground has finally been broken today at two sites in Africa and Australia that will host the Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO), the largest radio telescope in the world. Construction of the SKA-Mid array, to be located in the Karoo…
A plume of searing hot rock as wide as the continental U.S. is rising up from near the core of Mars and might help explain recent volcanism and earthquakes seen at the Red Planet, scientists say. Most volcanism on Mars…
The team behind NASA’s Lucy asteroid mission is resuming work with the spacecraft to fully deploy and latch its second solar array after a recent successful Earth flyby. Lucy conducted the first of three planned Earth flybys on Oct. 16,…
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has named Bradley Flick director of the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, effective immediately. The administrator also has named Dave Mitchell to fill the role as acting director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight…
An artist’s impression of a comet flying through space trailed by twin streams of gas and dust. (Image credit: Shutterstock) (opens in new tab) A bizarre, volcanic comet has violently erupted, spewing out more than 1 million tons of gas,…
A new image shows the exposed heart of a distant galaxy in stunning detail, demonstrating the promise of a recent addition to the Very Large Telescope. The image shows the galaxy NGC 1097, which is located 45 million light-years from…
The term spaceport probably conjures up images of Mos Eisley in Star Wars, or something altogether more pristine and pleasant in 24th Century San Francisco in Star Trek — but spaceports are actually a real thing. Just like an airport…
