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After analyzing the data collected from NASA’s successful Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) last year, the DART team found that the kinetic impactor mission “can be effective in altering the trajectory of an asteroid, a big step toward the goal o…
The SpaceX launch vehicle was set for liftoff at 1:45 a.m. EST (0645 GMT) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
In a keynote at FOSDEM 2023, NASA’s science data officer Steve Crawford explored NASA’s use of open-source software.
But LWN.net notes that the talk went far beyond just the calibration software for the James Webb Space Telescope and the Mars Ingenui…
Local 911 dispatches received multiple calls from residents about loud noises and a possible ‘explosion’ that shook their homesA 1,000lbs meteoroid likely exploded in the skies above Texas scattering fragments over the ground on Wednesday afternoon, co…
In 2014, the first documented meteorite from outside our solar system struck Earth with a spectacular splash.First detected by a satellite network designed to spot dangerous asteroids, the interstellar space rock exploded into a fireball above the Pac…
NASA’s Webb telescope has discovered an exoplanet, which is any planet that is outside of our solar system, for the first time, the agency announced Wednesday. From a report: The planet, called LHS 475 b, is nearly the same size as Earth, having 99% of…
Space agency mounts rescue mission to bring home two cosmonauts and US astronaut marooned on ISSMoscow will launch a rescue vessel to the International Space Station next month to bring home three crew members who are in effect stuck in orbit after the…
Walt Cunningham, one of the early Apollo astronauts, died Tuesday after complications from a fall. He was 90. NPR reports: Walt Cunningham flew in space just one time. His flight in 1968 was an important — and often forgotten one — for the lunar prog…
He was one of three space jocks during the 1968 11-day mission that garnered an Emmy award for live reports beamed from Earth orbitWalter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in Nasa’s Apollo program, …
Administrator Bill Nelson says Beijing could seek ‘own’ resource-rich areas and next two years could be key to US-China contestThe US is locked in a space race with China and the country needs to “watch out” that its rival does not gain a foothold and …