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The Great North American Solar Eclipse of 2024 is just three years away

And those who are fortunate to be positioned along a narrow path stretching across northern Mexico through parts of 15 U.S. states, there will come the opportunity to what many have come to call the most spectacular of celestial roadshows — a total solar ...

SpaceX launches its 100th mission from Florida's Space Coast

The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 launcher lifted off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 12:34:18 p.m. EDT (1634:18 GMT) Wednesday and headed northeast over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the 60 Starlink satellites into orbit.

NASA astronaut, two cosmonauts set for launch to space station

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and two Russian cosmonauts will ride a Soyuz ferry ship to the International Space Station early Friday, the first step in a record crew rotation requiring two launches and two landings with four different spacecraft in just three ...

You can watch a Soyuz rocket launch a US-Russian crew to the International Space Station early Friday

The Soyuz capsule carrying NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov is scheduled to launch atop a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:42 a.m. EDT (0742 GMT or 12:42 p.m. local time) on Friday for a quick, ...

Tiny Astroscale satellite will test space junk cleanup tech with magnets

Astroscale just launched the first commercial space junk cleanup mission designed to locate and retrieve used satellites and other debris orbiting Earth. The Japan-based company's End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission lifted off ...

NASA's Odyssey orbiter marks 20 historic years of mapping Mars

NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft launched 20 years ago on April 7, making it the oldest spacecraft still working at the Red Planet. The orbiter, which takes its name from Arthur C. Clarke's classic sci-fi novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" (Clarke blessed its ...

The spintronics technology revolution could be just a hopfion away

Using nanofabrication tools at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, Noah Kent, a Ph.D. student in physics at UC Santa Cruz and in Fischer's group at Berkeley Lab, worked with Molecular Foundry staff to carve out magnetic nanopillars from layers of iridium, cobalt ...

A tiny, wobbling muon just shook particle physics to its core

Livescience.com

Livescience.com

If the results are true, the discovery represents a breakthrough in particle physics of a kind that hasn't been seen for 50 years, when the dominant theory to explain subatomic particles was first developed. The ...

Mars helicopter Ingenuity unlocks its rotor blades to prepare for 1st flight on Red Planet

The Mars helicopter Ingenuity has unlocked its two rotor blades as preparations continue for the vehicle's first flight, due to occur no earlier than Sunday (April 11). Ingenuity arrived on Mars Feb. 18 along with NASA's Perseverance rover, having made the long ...

NASA receives first weather reports from Perseverance rover on Mars at Jezero Crater

Washington Post

Washington Post

Earlier this week, the NASA Perseverance rover reported on the weather from Mars's Jezero Crater for the first time, providing an invaluable data set that will augment scientific understanding of the Martian atmosphere and inform future decisions about the ...