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Trump campaign's 'Make Space Great Again' video surprises NASA, sparks petition

The campaign to reelect President Donald Trump launched a new "Make Space Great Again" video ad this week that has surprised NASA officials and sparked an online petition against the politicization of space. The video, which Trump's reelection ...

Happy birthday, Falcon 9! SpaceX's workhorse rocket debuted 10 years ago today

SpaceX's famous Falcon 9 rocket has now been flying for a decade. The workhorse two-stage booster debuted on June 4, 2010, successfully launching a mockup of SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule to Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in ...

Ancient explosion in Milky Way's core lit up gas outside the galaxy

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is further probing the remnants of a massive space explosion visible from Earth 3.5 million years ago. Embedded in the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, a supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) had ...

Exploring new ways to see the Higgs boson

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations presented their latest results on new signatures for detecting the Higgs boson at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. These include searches for rare transformations of the Higgs boson into a Z boson—which is a carrier of one ...

A mirror image of Earth and sun

Among the more than 4,000 known exoplanets, KOI-456.04 is something special: less than twice the size of Earth, it orbits a sun-like star. And it does so with a star-planet distance that could permit planetary surface temperatures conducive to life. The object ...

'Like Trash in a Landfill': Carbon Dioxide Keeps Piling Up in the Atmosphere

The New York Times

The New York Times

Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached their annual peak last month, and once again were the highest in human history. Despite the economic collapse resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, which has led to sharp declines in carbon dioxide ...

Astronauts 'capture the flag' for SpaceX in race to reach space station

"Congratulations SpaceX, you got the flag." Just one day after riding SpaceX's Crew Dragon "Endeavour" to a historic docking with the International Space Station, spacecraft commander Doug Hurley held out a small American flag for the company behind his ...

Researcher discusses discovery of exoplanets and his special method

René Heller from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research already made the scientific community take notice when he and his team discovered no fewer than 18 previously overlooked exoplanets in the data from the Kepler Space Telescope.

Space Ref (press release)

NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 3 June, 2020 - Reviewing Station Safety Procedures and Equipment

Space Ref (press release)

The three NASA astronauts and two Roscosmos cosmonauts that comprise the Expedition 63 crew are keeping the International Space Station humming with space research. Less than a week into their stay on the orbiting lab, Flight Engineers Doug Hurley ...

Astronomers confirm Earth-size exoplanet around nearest star and maybe more

CNN

CNN

A super-telescope made the first direct observation of an exoplanet using optical interferometry. This method revealed a complex exoplanetary atmosphere with clouds of iron and silicates swirling in a planet-wide storm. The technique presents unique ...