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Earth's airglow to give NASA a window into space weather waves
October 26, 2023Next month, NASA will place a new piece of equipment on the International Space Station. It will examine a phenomenon known as Earth's airglow for signs of weather-produced waves that can reach the mesopause and disrupt satellite communications. -
Roman set to ID our furthest-known exoplanet in its uncharted-space jaunt
October 25, 2023NASA’s anticipated Roman Space Telescope is taking shape, and will soon measure light from a billion galaxies, perform a microlensing survey deep in the Milky Way, monitor hundreds of millions of stars and peer into unseen galactic neighborhoods. -
Gorgeous video imagines doomed Soviet-era hydrofoiling shuttle launch
October 22, 2023The Alexeyev/Sukhoi Albatros launch system, proposed in 1974, would have launched a Soviet space shuttle on the back of a carrier spaceplane, launched off the back of a hydrofoiling barge. It never happened, but here's what it would've looked like. -
NASA tweaks Voyager software to protect thrusters against gunge
October 22, 2023NASA Voyager mission engineers are preparing a software patch that will allow the thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 and 2 interstellar probes to continue operating for another five years, keeping the spacecraft in communications with Earth. -
Astronomers detect radio burst from 8 billion years ago
October 19, 2023Astronomers have picked up a radio signal from eight billion years ago, meaning it’s traveled across the observable universe to get here. Thanks to its extensive experience in the cosmos, the signal can actually help us track down “missing” matter. -
New Blue Origin space platform to act as a cosmic multi-tool
October 18, 2023Blue Origin has taken the wraps off Blue Ring, its multi-orbit, multi-mission space platform that will provide a wide variety of logistical services to commercial and government customers, from medium Earth orbit to interstellar space. -
All Mars orbiters work together to trace largest marsquake on record
October 17, 2023NASA’s InSight listened out for seismic activity on Mars, and last year it picked up a marsquake so big it was suspected to be a meteoroid impact. Now, thanks to the cooperation of all agencies with orbiters around Mars, the source has been tracked. -
ESA looks at melting moondust to lay down lunar roads
October 17, 2023The Moon is a dusty place, so to tidy things up a bit, ESA is experimenting with high-energy lasers and simulated lunar soil to explore the possibility of sintering lunar regolith to pave roads and landing fields for future lunar outposts. -
"Starquakes" could be behind mysterious radio signals from space
October 16, 2023Cosmic radio signals are beaming to Earth every day – and astronomers are stumped as to their origin. Now a new study finds evidence that these signals, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), could be caused by “starquakes.” -
OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples hold the building blocks of life
October 15, 2023NASA's OSIRIS-REx has begun to pay dividends as the space agency releases the first results of the sample return mission from the asteroid Bennu, showing the presence of a high carbon content and water – the primary building blocks of life. -
NASA mission to US$10-quadrillion asteroid lifts off
October 13, 2023NASA's deep-space probe to an estimated US$10-quadrillion metal-rich asteroid is on its way. The Psyche mission lifted off on October 13 at 10:19 am EDT from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. -
Mysterious explosion from empty region of space puzzles astronomers
October 08, 2023It feels like every time astronomers get a handle on a cosmic phenomenon, a new one pops up that sends them back to the drawing board. Case in point – Hubble has spotted a burst of light in a region of space where there didn’t seem to be a trigger. -
Axiom Space teams with high-fashion Prada to create new NASA spacesuit
October 05, 2023On the cosmic fashion front, Axiom Space is teaming up with the Italian luxury apparel house Prada to create the high-tech spacesuits that NASA astronauts will wear when they return to the Moon in 2025 as part of the Artemis program. -
"Starburst" galaxies could solve cosmic dawn mystery raised by Webb
October 03, 2023The James Webb Space Telescope can look farther back in space and time than ever before – and it’s revealed puzzling galaxies that seem to be too advanced for their age. Now astronomers have proposed a new explanation for them – starburst galaxies. -
New Horizons gets a new lease on life and a possible flyby mission
October 03, 2023The future of NASA's New Horizons interstellar probe as it speeds out of the solar system, never to return, is a bit more secure after the space agency announced a new extended mission plan that includes another possible Kuiper Belt object flyby.
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