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Here's how NASA just booked a last-minute trip to space on a Russian Soyuz

On Tuesday (March 9), NASA announced that astronaut Mark Vande Hei would fill that seat, confirming hints circulating through the spaceflight community. The assignment comes with just a month of notice, far shorter than is typical, and the full implications of ...

Stacking complete for SLS boosters

Technicians inside the Vehicle Assembly Building hoisted the nose cone onto the right-hand SLS booster March 2, capping the build-up of the twin solid rockets. Produced by Northrop Grumman, the five-segment boosters are taller, more powerful versions of ...

ULA, SpaceX split military launch contract awards

United Launch Alliance won task orders for the USSF-112 and USSF-87 missions. Both launches will use ULA's next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket and take off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

The Perseverance rover has recorded the 1st laser sound on Mars. It's a 'snap!' not a 'pew!'

SuperCam is equipped with a microphone, which has picked up the gentle whoosh of the Martian wind as well as the not-so-gentle snaps generated by the laser when it hits a rock target.

Cosmonauts seal air leak in Russian module of the International Space Station

The International Space Station, as seen in 2018. (Image credit: NASA). Two Russian cosmonauts will drill holes and apply sealant to stop two cracks ...

Explaining Parker Solar Probe's magnetic puzzle

When NASA's Parker Solar Probe sent back the first observations from its voyage to the Sun, scientists found signs of a wild ocean of currents and waves quite unlike the near-Earth space much closer to our planet.

IceCube detection of a high-energy particle proves 60-year-old theory

Deep inside the ice sheet at the South Pole, it smashed into an electron and produced a particle that quickly decayed into a shower of secondary particles. The interaction was captured by a massive telescope buried in the Antarctic glacier, the IceCube Neutrino ...

Physicists Measure the Gravitational Force between the Smallest Masses Yet

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Scientific American

Physicist Markus Aspelmeyer vividly remembers the day, nearly a decade ago, that a visitor to his lab declared the gravitational pull of his office chair too weak to measure. Measurable or not, this force certainly ought to exist. Ever since the work of Isaac ...

Do Mars dust storms cause the mysterious zodiacal light?

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EarthSky

The zodiacal light is a strange pyramid of light that extends from the eastern or western horizon, before dawn or as true darkness falls. It was known to stem from dust moving in the plane of our solar system. The Juno spacecraft has found that Mars might be ...

Russia and China just agreed to build a research station on the moon together

CNSA and Roscosmos will "facilitate extensive cooperation in the ILRS, open to all interested countries and international partners, strengthen scientific research exchanges, and promote humanity's exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purpose[s]," ...