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China's Zhurong rover reveals how weather and ancient water altered rocks on Mars

In the study, a team of researchers led by Liang Ding of the Harbin Institute of Technology in Northeast China, used images from the rover's Navigation and Topography Cameras (NaTeCam) to look at the structure of the rocks.

Virgin Orbit targeting this summer for 1st-ever orbital launch from UK soil

On the heels of a third straight successful launch from California earlier this year, Virgin Orbit plans to extend its liftoffs to the United Kingdom. The company aims to launch for the first time this summer from Spaceport Cornwall, in the western ...

Massive eruption on dead star pushes particles to cosmic speed limit

Astronomers used a gamma-ray observatory in Namibia called the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) to show how an eruption creates a shock wave that accelerates material around it super-fast speeds. The research focused on RS Ophiuchi, a nova that ...

Ukraine war: How it could play out in space, with potentially dangerous consequences

Satellite imagery used to be the preserve of advanced militaries and very few countries. Today, however, commercial companies are increasingly capturing such imagery, and their combined capability may surpass that of the Russian military. The ...

What would a sustainable space environment look like?

Since that time, about 8,900 satellites have been launched from more than 40 countries worldwide. This has led to growing concerns about space debris and the hazard it represents to future constellations, spacecraft, and even habitats in low Earth orbit ( ...

Study finds that water determines magma depth, a key to accurate models of volcanic activity, eruption

They form the northern boundary of the Ring of Fire, a string of active volcanoes that circle the Pacific Ocean. The Alaska Volcano Observatory monitors the activity of Cleveland Volcano from their office in Anchorage, and they have observed eruptions ...

Imagining an Earthly neighbor

We do not yet know whether the sun-like stars closest to us, the α Centauri A/B binary, harbor an Earth-like planet. However, thanks to new modeling work, we now have a good sense of what such a planet, should it exist, would look like and how it might ...

They're trying to resurrect an extinct rat now. It's not going so well

USA TODAY

USA TODAY

Last year, we learned that scientists wanted to bring back the woolly mammoth. Now, researchers have set their sights on resurrecting something much smaller: the Christmas Island rat, a rodent which measured about 10 inches in length, not counting its ...

Aerospace startup reveals new modular lunar rover for carrying people and cargo on the Moon

The Verge

The Verge

Today, aerospace startup Venturi Astrolab revealed its new interplanetary rover designed to transport cargo and people across the surface of the Moon — and eventually Mars. The company says it plans to build a fleet of these rovers over the coming ...

Original Buzz Aldrin moon walk photo sells for $7700 at auction

CNN

CNN

A series of original NASA photographs from the Apollo missions sold for a total of 1.16 million Danish crowns ($171,831) in an auction in Copenhagen on Wednesday. The 74 privately-owned photographs from the Apollo 8-17 missions included the famous one ...