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Watch an Atlas V rocket launch US Space Force missile-warning satellite today

Designated Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight 5 (SBIRS Geo-5), the mission marks ULA's first launch so far this year. However, the company has a busy summer planned, including the launch of Boeing's Starliner crew capsule to ...

Atlas V rocket launch carrying Space Force missile-warning satellite delayed to Tuesday

ULA is targeting its planned backup attempt of Tuesday afternoon (May 18), with liftoff now scheduled for 1:31 p.m. EDT (1731 GMT). The two-stage rocket was ...

Milky Way lights up Guiana spaceport in stunning timelapse video

The European Space Agency (ESA) recently released a timelapse video capturing the pristine night sky above Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, where preparations are underway for the arrival and integration of Europe's latest launcher, Ariane 6.

China's space agency just gave the Communist Party a big 100th birthday gift: a rover on Mars

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CNN

China's Zhurong rover has landed on Mars. Hong Kong (CNN) China's space agency has an extraordinary gift for the ruling Communist Party's 100th birthday: ...

China's newly landed Mars rover Zhurong likely to roll into action this weekend

We haven't seen any photos taken by Zhurong yet, but those are likely coming soon as well. The rover's traveling companion, the Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter, had been circling the Red Planet every 48 hours.

European startup builds oxygen-making machine for 2025 moon mission

A European startup is perfecting technology that will be sent to the moon to make oxygen from lunar soil as part of a 2025 European Space Agency (ESA) demonstration mission. Belgium-based Space Applications Services is building three experimental ...

Life in the deep freeze: The revolution that changed our view of glaciers forever

Just like people, glacier microbes modify their homes. When I first saw the melting fringes of Greenland's vast ice sheet, it looked as if a dust storm had scattered a vast blanket of dirt on the ice. Our team later discovered the dirt included extensive mats of glacier ...

Researcher describes four new species of sponge that lay undiscovered in plain sight

The ocean is a big place with many deep, dark mysteries. Humans have mapped no more than 20% of the sea, and explored less. Even the kelp forests of Southern California—among the best studied patches of ocean on the planet—hide species not yet ...

Plate tectonics are 3.6 billion years old, oldest minerals on Earth reveal

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A microscopic view of a thin piece of polished rock from Jack hills. A gypsum plate on the microscope allowed scientists to see a rainbow spectrum of quartz. Rocks from Jack Hills are 99% quartz, and the remaining 1% includes precious zircons. (Image credit: ...

Voyager 1 discovers faint plasma 'hum' in interstellar space

Four and a half decades after launch and over 14 billion miles from Earth, Voyager 1 still makes new discoveries. The spacecraft has picked up the signature of interstellar space itself, a faint plasma "hum" scientists compared to gentle rain. Plasma has been ...