For the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, NASA has officially received a spacecraft designed to carry humans to the Moon. On Thursday, Lockheed Martin, the primary contractor for the Orion capsule, handed over the Artemis II spacecraft to NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems team at Kennedy Space Center. NASA is scheduling Artemis II to […]
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NASA’s newly released budget reveals a significant reduction in funding for the Orion spacecraft and the Lunar Gateway space station. The agency’s total budget has dropped to $18.8 billion, marking a 24% cut of $6 billion. NASA’s budget shift reflects a realignment of resources, prioritizing crewed missions to the Moon and Mars over the Orion
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A relic from the Space Age is set to return to Earth as the long-dormant Soviet Kosmos 482 Venus lander, launched in 1972, plunges into the atmosphere around May 10. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union ran an ambitious lunar and deep space exploration program from 1959 to 1989, competing with the United States.
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Scientists warned Wednesday that an unprecedented coral bleaching event, driven by human activity, is affecting 84% of the world’s reefs and could wipe out large portions of these vital ecosystems. Since early 2023, the global coral bleaching crisis has escalated into the largest and most severe ever recorded, impacting reefs across the Pacific, Indian, and
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Every so often, the night sky offers us a delightful surprise — and this month, a celestial arrangement might just bring a smile to your face. A Rare Morning Alignment In the early morning hours of Thursday, April 24, and Friday, April 25, a rare alignment will occur as the waning crescent Moon meets up
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A groundbreaking discovery could transform space exploration: researchers have developed a way to produce solar energy on the Moon using lunar dust itself. This technique involves converting lunar regolith—the abundant surface material on the Moon—into a type of glass that can conduct electricity, potentially enabling the creation of sustainable lunar outposts without relying on equipment
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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft recently completed a successful flyby of its second asteroid target, capturing detailed images of the elongated and oddly shaped object known as Donaldjohanson. The close-ups revealed the asteroid’s distinct double-lobed form, confirming it as a contact binary — a celestial body formed when two separate objects gently collided and fused together. An
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Northrop Grumman has written a new chapter in the history of space exploration. Its Mission Extension Vehicle 1 (MEV-1) successfully performed the first undocking between two commercial satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO), marking the beginning of a new era for commercial space operations. Developed and operated by SpaceLogistics LLC, a Northrop Grumman subsidiary, MEV-1
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To celebrate 35 years of discoveries, the Hubble Space Telescope has released a newly enhanced image of one of the sky’s most captivating galaxies: the Sombrero Galaxy. A Hat in the Sky: The Sombrero Galaxy’s Unique Appearance Also known as Messier 104, this celestial wonder lies about 31 million light-years from Earth in the constellation
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Astronomers have long been intrigued by two puzzling phenomena at the center of our galaxy. First, the gas in the so-called Central Molecular Zone (CMZ)—a dense and turbulent region near the Milky Way’s core—appears to be ionized at a surprisingly high rate. That means atoms are losing electrons and becoming electrically charged. Second, scientists have
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