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New Telescope Images of Io are so Good, it Looks like a Spacecraft Took Them
Universe Today - 1 Jun 2024 07:08
The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), located on Mount Graham in Arizona and run by the University of Arizona, is part of the next generation of extremely large telescopes (ELTs). With two primary mirrors measuring 8.4 m ...
Starliner launch attempt scrubbed
Space News - 1 Jun 2024 20:54
A last-minute problem scrubbed the Atlas 5 launch of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner on its first crewed flight June 1. The post Starliner launch attempt scrubbed appeared first on SpaceNews.
South Korea is Planning to Send a Mission to Mars by 2045
Universe Today - 1 Jun 2024 04:46
It is truly wonderful to see so many nations aspiring to space exploration and trips to the Moon. Earlier this week on the 27th May, South Korea innaugurated its new space agency, the Korea AeroSpace Administration other...
NASA's Hubble Temporarily Pauses Science
NASA Breaking news - 1 Jun 2024 02:11
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode May 24 due to an ongoing gyroscope (gyro) issue, suspending science operations. Hubble's instruments are stable, and the telescope is in good health. The telescope automati...
The universe's biggest explosions made elements we are composed of, but there's another mystery source out there
Phys.org - 1 Jun 2024 22:30
After its "birth" in the Big Bang, the universe consisted mainly of hydrogen and a few helium atoms. These are the lightest elements in the periodic table. More-or-less all elements heavier than helium were produced in t...
Space Development Agency opens door to new vendors with 'HALO' satellite program
Space News - 1 Jun 2024 21:52
The Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated LEO program 'will provide opportunities for companies to gain valuable experience working with SDA on demonstration projects' The post Space Development Agency opens door to new ve...
Boeing's 1st Starliner astronaut launch aborted minutes before liftoff (video)
SPACE.com - 1 Jun 2024 21:25
The first crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has been delayed yet again, this time due to an automatic abort just minutes before liftoff today (June 1).
Japanese billionaire cancels private flight around the moon on SpaceX's giant Starship
SPACE.com - 1 Jun 2024 19:44
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa won't shoot for the moon on SpaceX's Starship after all.
Double trouble: Sun unleashes 2 powerful X-class solar flares in 12 hours (video)
SPACE.com - 1 Jun 2024 19:24
Two X-class solar flares erupted from the sun in less than 12 hours as a magnetically complex sunspot begins to face Earth.
Webb telescope finds most distant galaxy ever observed, again
Phys.org - 1 Jun 2024 16:50
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered what appears to be a new record-holder for the most distant known galaxy, a remarkably bright star system that existed just 290 million years after the Big Bang, NASA said Th...
Study investigates a massive 'spider' pulsar
Phys.org - 1 Jun 2024 16:10
Astronomers from the Stanford University in California have performed joint X-ray and optical observations of a massive "spider" pulsar designated PSR J2215+5135. Results of the observational campaign, presented in a pap...
Boeing will try to launch its first crew on Starliner, again
Phys.org - 1 Jun 2024 14:01
Troubled aerospace giant Boeing will try once more to fly its first crew to the International Space Station aboard a Starliner spaceship on Saturday, after the last attempt was scrubbed hours before liftoff.
Planetary Protection: Why study it? What can it teach us about finding life beyond Earth?
Universe Today - 1 Jun 2024 07:30
Universe Today has recently investigated a plethora of scientific disciplines, including impact craters, planetary surfaces, exoplanets, astrobiology, solar physics, comets, planetary atmospheres, planetary geophysics, c...