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It's the month of Mars! 3 Red Planet missions set to launch in July

July is the month of Mars. Three missions are poised to launch toward the Red Planet this month, including NASA's car-sized Perseverance rover, which will hunt for signs of ancient Mars life and cache samples for future return to Earth. The action will start ...

House bill would nix White House's proposed 2021 NASA budget boost

A bill released by the U.S. House of Representatives today (July 7) would keep NASA funding flat next year, at $22.629 billion. This move is a significant departure from the White House's 2021 federal budget request, which allocated $25.246 billion to the ...

Chinese scientists reveal analysis of weird substance found on the moon's far side by Yutu 2 rover

Chinese scientists have published an analysis of a curious substance on the moon which generated widespread interest following its discovery by the Yutu 2 rover last year. The discovery was made by a Yutu 2 drive team member in July 2019, during lunar ...

New collection of stars, not born in our galaxy, discovered in Milky Way

Astronomers can go their whole career without finding a new object in the sky. But for Lina Necib, a postdoctoral scholar in theoretical physics at Caltech, the discovery of a cluster of stars in the Milky Way, but not born of the Milky Way, came early—with a little ...

Building NASA's Psyche: design done, now full speed ahead on hardware

This artist's concept, updated as of June 2020, depicts NASA's Psyche spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU. Psyche, the NASA mission to explore a metal-rock asteroid of the same name, recently passed a crucial milestone that brings it closer to its ...

Scrutinizing SpaceX, NASA Overlooked Some Boeing Software Problems

The New York Times

The New York Times

After a couple of rounds of investigation and some soul-searching, NASA and Boeing believe that they have identified what went wrong during a troubled test flight of an uncrewed Boeing spacecraft designed to carry NASA astronauts. In addition to the ...

Physics team observes extremely fast electronic changes in real time in a special material class

Topological materials such as tungsten ditelluride, here a sample in an ultra-high vacuum chamber, have special electronic properties and are very robust against external perturbations. Credit: AG Bauer. In physics, they are currently the subject of intensive ...

'Clyde's Spot,' a new storm on Jupiter, discovered by amateur astronomer (photos)

NASA's Jupiter-orbiting Juno probe has captured gorgeous imagery of a storm that recently cropped up on the giant planet and was spotted by an amateur astronomer. Juno snapped a series of photos of the feature, dubbed "Clyde's Spot" — named after its ...

'Worried for our families and all of mankind.' Coronavirus a concern even for astronauts in space

USA TODAY

USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – At 260 miles above Earth, it might seem easy to forget the pandemonium of a coronavirus crisis gripping the globe. But for three U.S. astronauts – Chris Cassidy, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley – circling the planet in the International Space ...

How astronomers learned to 'listen' to gravitational waves

Astronomy Magazine

Astronomy Magazine

An artist's illustration of two black holes coalescing. As they collide, the two black holes produce gravitational waves that ripple through the fabric of space-time. National Science Foundation. Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein published his general theory of ...