Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off.
NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch next week – what you need to know about the search for life beyond Earth
Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...
Astronomers Just Found a 3-Million-Light-Year Connection Between Galaxies
A new breakthrough in cosmic mapping has unveiled the structure of a colossal filament, part of the vast cosmic web that connects galaxies. Dark matter and gas shape these filaments, but their faint ...
Image of Saturn in Cassini spacecraft's 'final moments' isn't what it seems
The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...
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Even NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Is Getting Its Budget Slashed
The James Webb Space Telescope is slated to have a huge percentage of its budget cut amid other slashes at NASA.
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Webb telescope spies the Milky Way’s black hole constantly ‘bubbling’ with light
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the ...
Astronomers Explain NASA's 2032 Asteroid Projections
Could an asteroid hit Earth in 2032? NASA says there's a chance, but the odds keep changing. We asked two experts to break it ...
Webb telescope finds Milky Way black hole never stops strobing light
A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...
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China is building a space telescope to rival the JWST — and it could survive in orbit decades longer
Chinese scientists have announced details on the upcoming China Space Station Telescope (CSST), a cutting-edge observatory ...
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Texas is the new space state, although California and Florida may disagree
Texas is now headquarters for a number of impressive space commerce companies, including Firefly in Cedar Park, near Austin, and Intuitive Machines, Axiom Space and Franklin Chang-Diaz’s ambitious ...
NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals a Never-Ending Cosmic Firestorm at the Center of the Milky Way
Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...