Credit: CC0 Public Domain NASA’s Artemis program has one tower standing and one just getting started. Mobile launcher 1 (ML-1), which endured some significant damage after its use on the…
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Planetary Defense Test Deflected Asteroid but Unleashed Boulder Swarm
NASA’s DART mission crashed a spacecraft into the nearby asteroid Dimorphos to test a possible strategy for deflecting asteroids that are headed for Earth. The test succeeded in knocking Dimorphos…
Indian lunar lander splits from propulsion module in key step
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain India’s latest space mission completed a key step in the country’s second attempt at a lunar landing, with its Moon module separating from its propulsion section…
Artificial Intelligence Will Search for Habitable Planets
University of Sydney partners with Spiral Blue for the TOLIMAN space telescope mission to look for habitable planets using artificial intelligence. Backed by the Breakthrough Initiatives, Professor Peter Tuthill will…
XRISM spacecraft will open new window on the X-ray cosmos
This artist’s concept shows a face-on view of the XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab The upcoming XRISM (X-ray Imaging and…
Watch Exoplanet’s 17-Year Journey Around its Star
Longest time-lapse footage of an exoplanet to date was assembled from real data. A Northwestern University astrophysicist has created the longest time-lapse video of an exoplanet to date. Constructed from…
‘Cosmic Lens’ Reveals Distant Galaxies With Dark Matter
A new image taken with the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a variety of unusual, distorted galaxies in the distant universe, magnified by a “gravitational lens” – a massive galaxy…
Intuitive Machines sets Nov. 15 launch date for moon lander
A new private moon-landing mission could launch as soon as November. Intuitive Machines says its moon lander could be ready for liftoff as soon as Nov. 15, pending last-minute preparation. This…
Could puncturing a satellite’s battery help it deorbit faster?
Visual depiction of Kessler syndrome. Credit: NASA Orbital Debris Program Office A few years ago, there was a panic about lithium-ion batteries that exploded and could do things like take…
Searching for the universe’s missing teenage pictures
A line intensity image appears smeared compared to traditional galaxy survey images. Credit: Patrick Breysse Astrophysicists can use measurements of the cosmic microwave background, radiation formed 380,000 years after the…
