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NASA gives up on trying to rescue the Swift telescope
Plans to rescue NASA's Swift Observatory satellite from falling into Earth's atmosphere are seemingly dead in the water. The agency and Kata...
Source: The Verge
Could 'dark photons' explain dark matter?
New research suggests that if dark matter is composed of "dark photons," it would not have heated the early cosmos like scientists thought.
Source: Space.com
EXCLUSIVE: Ross Gerber Says Tesla Could ‘Double’ Sales Without Elon Musk, Warns Investors on SpaceX Merger
While much of the conversation in the news cycles about Elon Musk today centers around Space Exploration Technologies Corp, EV giant Tesla Inc. still ...
Source: Yahoo Entertainment
Aftermath of SpaceX rocket collision with the Moon revealed
The upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket smashed into the surface of the Moon around two weeks ago. With all the defunct satellites, spent rocket stages a...
Source: Unexplained-mysteries.com
This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 21 – 30
The waxing Moon is on its way to a not-quite-total lunar eclipse Thursday the 27th. On Friday the 21st, it's still east of Antares in the evening...
Source: Sky & Telescope
Elon Musk Calls China 'By Far' the Biggest AI and Robotics Rival as SpaceX Faces New Rocket Competition
Elon Musk identifies China as a formidable competitor in AI and robotics, citing its manufacturing scale and AI capabilities, while SpaceX faces incre...
Source: Ibtimes.com.au
Scientists found a ‘Mega-Earth’ 2.5 times the size of Earth with a core 23 times its mass; but it didn’t develop the massive atmosphere expected of a planet this large, and researchers are trying to find out why
The discovery of GJ 523b, an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth, has shaken scientists' understanding of rocky planet formation. This Me...
Source: The Times of India
Caveat Emptor, SpaceX Investors: Another $47 Billion in Potential Selling Pressure Hits the Tape Today, Aug. 20
Caveat Emptor, SpaceX Investors: Another $47 Billion in Potential Selling Pressure Hits the Tape Today, Aug. 20 On June 12, Elon Musk's artificia...
Source: Biztoc.com
New Solar System Models Show Earth Is No Fluke
Astrobiologists use new starting points to produce ‘organic’ models of our solar system’s formation.
Source: Universe Today
NASA+ and the Unique Live Ops Challenges of Streaming From the Moon and Beyond
NASA+ confronts many of the same difficulties of other large-scale streamers when it comes to ingesting, encoding, and delivering live video?particula...
Source: Streamingmedia.com
On most of the Moon, sunset begins a 354-hour night. For nearly 15 Earth days the Sun doesn’t rise and surface temperatures can fall toward −173°C — one reason engineers are deliberately hunting for unusually sunlit ground near the lunar south pole.
A normal lunar night lasts about 354 hours. Near the south pole, terrain can keep the Sun visible far longer, but even the brightest sites still need ...
Source: Space Daily
The only spacecraft ever to directly sample Jupiter’s atmosphere was a single probe dropped into the planet in 1995. It transmitted for just 58 minutes before being destroyed — meaning our only in-situ measurements of Jupiter’s clouds come from one brief
Galileo's only direct descent into Jupiter sampled an unusually dry hot spot. Its 58 minutes of data remain invaluable, but some results were loc...
Source: Space Daily
NASA Tests Featherweight Radar Antenna for SkyFall Mars Helicopters
After the little Mars helicopter Ingenuity blew everyone away with its performance, it was clear that a future Mars mission should involve more helico...
Source: Hackaday
Starlink said to reapply for India Gen 2 approval
Starlink, the satellite internet unit of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., better known as SpaceX, has reapplied to India's space regulator f...
Source: Biztoc.com
Omega Centauri should contain thousands of stellar-mass black holes, yet astronomers had never identified a single one. In 2026, a University of Utah-led team finally found one by tracking a star through part of a roughly 94-year orbit around an invisible
Hubble and Webb astrometry caught a star near periastron, allowing a 23-year partial arc to reveal the first individually detected stellar-mass black ...
Source: Space Daily
Golden Dome chief touts progress as funding questions loom
Guetlein joins North Dakota senators in making the case for the missile defense program The post Golden Dome chief touts progress as funding question...
Source: SpaceNews
NASA aborts attempt to save dying space telescope - Axios
NASA aborts attempt to save dying space telescopeAxios NASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost MissionNASA (.gov) NASA mission to save its ...
Source: Slashdot.org
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Images Falcon 9 Crater on Moon, With Some Help From a Korean Spacecraft
A SpaceX Falcon upper stage crashed into the Moon on August 5th. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured images of the crash site from diffe...
Source: Universe Today
SpaceX will try for 1st Starship tower catch 'in a few months,' Elon Musk says
SpaceX will likely try to make the first-ever catch of its Starship upper stage a few months from now, according to Elon Musk. He had earlier flagged ...
Source: Space.com
China's Chang'e 7 moon probe will launch this weekend on the most ambitious lunar mission in history
China aims to launch its Chang'e 7 moon mission on Aug. 24 to send a lander, a rover, a hopper and a wide range of science experiments to the lun...
Source: Space.com