Space

Let’s not send a few thousand people to Mars as a big experiment in survival.

The authors of the book in the article, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, were also on an episode of Factually. Between this article and that episode, I'm pretty down on any cool scifi future in space.

NASA's Lucy Spacecraft took images of asteroid Dinkinesh, discovering that the asteroid has the first-ever contact binary pair orbiting the asteroid.

The rare phenomenon illuminates skies across the north-east of England and parts of Scotland.

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ISRO will launch an empty module in preparation for a mission to transport Indian astronauts to space.

The space rock — possibly the exposed core of a planet that didn’t finish forming — could reveal details about the Solar System’s origins.

Today, ESA's Gaia mission releases a goldmine of knowledge about our galaxy and beyond. Among other findings, the star surveyor surpasses its planned potential to reveal half a million new and faint stars in a massive cluster, identify over 380 possible cosmic lenses, and pinpoint the positions of more than 150 000 asteroids within the Solar System.

An annular solar eclipse, also known as a “ring of fire” eclipse because of the way the sun and moon line up, will be visible in the US, Central America and South America on 14 October

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The International Space Station is abuzz with the return of one of NASA’s Astrobee smart robots. The yellow Honey Astrobee, one of three free-flying robots,

In 2009 a giant star 25 times more massive than the sun simply vanished. OK, it wasn't quite that simple. It underwent a period of brightening, increasing in luminosity to a million suns, just as if it was ready to explode into a supernova. But then it faded rather than exploding. And when astronomers tried to see the star using the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), Hubble and the Spitzer space telescope, they couldn't see anything.

Bang! Inflatable space station module blows apart in explosive test (video) | Space.com
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The German project aims to explore beneath Earthly ice as a test for space exploration.

The U.S. Department of Defense wants fresh ideas on how to maintain military superiority in space.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter breaks altitude record on 59th Mars flight | Space.com
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Of all the objects in the Solar System, perhaps the most spectacular are the great comets that occasionally grace our skies. If you’ve been on social media in the past few days, you’ve probably seen articles proclaiming we have such a comet in our skies right now: C/2023 P1 (Nishimura).

NASA's Curiosity rover reaches Mars ridge where water left debris pileup | Phys.org
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Scientists studied the Squid Galaxy, Messier 77, to determine how chemicals swirl around its shrouded central black hole.

NASA is eyeing a privately built 'Apollo' space robot for continued investment — and future space missions.

A Billion-Mile Journey: OSIRIS-REx’s Meteoric Return With a Space Rock Treasure
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx will release an asteroid sample capsule this September, aiming for a landing in the Great Salt Lake Desert, with teams ready to address challenges during its descent and recovery.
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The sun’s outer atmosphere is vastly hotter than its surface. Scientists may be close to figuring out why.

Signs of life? Why astronomers are excited about CO2 and methane in the atmosphere of an alien world - Space.com
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Planning is underway for NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory In early August, scientists and engineers gathered in a small auditorium at Caltech to discuss how to build the first space telescope capable of detecting life on planets like Earth. The proposed mission concept, called the Habitable Worl

The curvature of space-time around a colossal mass has yielded the most detailed measurement of the cosmic distribution of dark matter yet.