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NASA's InSight Mars lander may 'hear' Perseverance rover's landing next month

Artist's illustration of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity landing via sky crane in August 2012. NASA's Mars 2020 rover Perseverance will land in the same fashion on Feb. 18, 2021. (Image: © NASA ...

Trump pushed for a moon landing in 2024. It's not going to happen.

Washington Post

Washington Post

Biden will likely keep NASA's Artemis program, but on a different timeline. Five ...

The most distant quasar ever found is hiding a seriously supermassive black hole

When this material gets sucked in, quasars release ultra-bright beams of electromagnetic radiation. Scientists suspect that these glowing, ultramassive objects could actually be an evolutionary stage for some galaxies. In fact, scientists estimate ...

NASA is finally ready to test-fire the engines of its SLS megarocket

It's a critical test for NASA and the final step in the agency's "Green Run" series of tests to ensure the SLS rocket is ready for its first launch, Artemis 1, that will send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the moon later this year.

SpaceX's Starship SN9 prototype fires rocket engines twice ahead of test launch

SpaceX's newest Starship prototype blazed to life twice today (Jan. 13), apparently keeping the vehicle on track for a high-altitude test flight in the near future. The three-engine SN9 vehicle performed its second and third "static fire" tests in quick succession ...

Astronomers find signature of magnetar outbursts in nearby galaxies

These exotic, compact stars are also thought to be the source of some types of short gamma ray bursts (GRBs): bright flashes of highly energetic radiation that have puzzled astronomers since they were first detected in the 1970s. Several of these giant magnetar ...

MethaneSAT picks SpaceX for satellite launch to track methane levels in Earth's atmosphere

An artist's illustration of MethaneSat, a methane-tracking satellite launching in October 2022 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. (Image: © MethaneSat LLC). A SpaceX rocket will launch ...

French wine, live rodents among 2 tons of cargo returned from space station

Spaceflight Now

Spaceflight Now

A SpaceX Cargo Dragon capsule parachuted to an on-target splashdown Wednesday night west of Tampa, returning more than two tons of experiment specimens from the International Space Station, including live rodents and a dozen bottles of space-aged ...

Rare star's giant gamma-ray burst GRB 200415A captured close to our home galaxy

The flare erupted from a magnetar in the galaxy NGC 253 in the Sculptor constellation, 11.4 million light years from earth. Credit: Prof Soebur Razzaque, University of Johannesburg. Earth gets blasted ...

Shine on: Avalanching nanoparticles break barriers to imaging cells in real time

EurekAlert

EurekAlert

Since the earliest microscopes, scientists have been on a quest to build instruments with finer and finer resolution to image a cell's proteins - the tiny machines that keep cells, and us, running. But to succeed, they need to overcome the diffraction limit, ...