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Japan successfully tested its new flagship H3 rocket after an earlier version failed last year. The rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center on Saturday, February 17, reaching an orbital altitude of about 670 kilometers (420 miles). It deployed a set...
Enabling & Support 19/02/2024 1122 views 17 likes In brief ESA signed a first Boost! contract with PLD Space supporting the development of the company’s Miura 5 launch service. Spain’s PLD Space launched the Miura 1 suborbital mission from southern Spain...
A new analysis of how galaxy clusters evolved over the 13.8-billion-year history of the cosmos could help solve a long-standing tension surrounding the 'lumpiness' of our universe's matter content. Down the line, it may also help scientists solve a host of...
These three panels show Active Region 13055 on the Sun on July 11, 2022. The same region appears in visible light (left), as a magnetic field measurement (middle), and in extreme ultraviolet light (right). Credit: Lisa Upton, Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA,...
Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lander has beamed back a series of snapshots that were captured as it headed out from the Earth toward the moon, and one of the pictures features Australia front and center. The shots also show the second stage of the SpaceX Falcon...
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Our universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate — a phenomenon that all theories of cosmology agree upon but none can fully explain. Now, a new theoretical study offers an intriguing solution: Perhaps our universe is expanding because it keeps colliding...
Long-exposure images capture the stunning streaks created by Perseid meteors. Their tails can vary in color depending on their speed and chemical composition. Credit: Kayseri Erciyes A.Ş. Ski Resort Merhaba! That’s Turkish for “hello.” After a week of...
A recently submitted study to The Astronomical Journal continues to search for the elusive Planet Nine (also called Planet X), which is a hypothetical planet that potentially orbits in the outer reaches of the solar system and well beyond the orbit of the...
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Côte d'Ivoire in western Africa. Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to learn more. Côte d'Ivoire is located on the southern coast of west Africa on the Gulf of...