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Russian and Soviet space stations throughout history

The Russian wing of the International Space Station is only growing. Despite a misfired thruster on its newly added laboratory module, Nauka, plans are still going ahead to launch another module, Prichal, in November 2021.

Europe's veteran gamma-ray space telescope nearly killed by charged particle strike

"We were immensely relieved to get the spacecraft out of this 'near-death' experience," an ESA official said. The European Space Agency's longest serving space telescope Integrals looks for sources of the most energetic radiation in the universe.

The Orionid meteor shower peaks this week, but don't expect to see many 'shooting stars'

Ask anyone to name a comet and there's a 90% certainty that the comet that is chosen will be Halley's. This most famous of comets, Halley's comet travels around the sun in an elliptical orbit that takes it beyond the orbit of Neptune and as close to ...

Mystery solved! Bizarre Hubble double galaxy caused by 'ripple' in space

Astronomers believe they've solved, at long last, a mystery first discovered nearly a decade ago by the Hubble Space Telescope. The dilemma centered on a strange "double galaxy," a pair of streaky objects that once defied explanation.

Three hours to save Integral

On 22 September, around midday, ESA's Integral spacecraft went into emergency Safe Mode. One of the spacecraft's three active 'reaction wheels' had turned off without warning and stopped spinning, causing a ripple effect that meant the satellite itself ...

How corrosive valves may have delayed the launch of Boeing's Starliner

The Verge

The Verge

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner is a new passenger spacecraft, designed to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Before Starliner can carry a crew, however, NASA wants Boeing ...

New NASA telescope will observe star birth and death in the Milky Way's evolution

CNN

CNN

(CNN) The Milky Way is ready for a close-up. A new space telescope being developed by NASA will launch in 2025 to help scientists better understand the evolution of our galaxy.

Boeing zeroing in on complex cause of Starliner launch scrub

CBS News

CBS News

Corrective measures are being developed, but another attempt to launch the Starliner on an unpiloted test flight to the International Space Station is not expected until well into next year, likely delaying the first piloted mission to even later.

Physicists announce results that boost evidence for new fundamental physics

Yahoo News UK

Results announced by the LHCb experiment at CERN have revealed further hints for phenomena that cannot be explained by our current theory of fundamental physics. In March 2020, the same experiment released evidence of particles breaking one of the core ...

DNA tangles can help predict the evolution of mutations

Tangles in unwound DNA can create mutational hotspots in the genomes of bacteria, according to a new study by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath. The study authors say these findings will help us in the future to predict the ...