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'Missing link' protostar may prove solar system's water is older than the sun

Astronomers have detected an abundance of water in the form of gas in a disk of planet-forming material that surrounds a distant star. The disk appears to contain hundreds of times more water than in all of Earth's oceans.

ULA targets May for debut launch of new Vulcan Centaur rocket

United Launch Alliance's (ULA) new rocket could fly for the first time less than two months from now. In a call with reporters on Feb. 23, ULA CEO Tory Bruno announced that the company is targeting no earlier than May 4 for the debut launch of Vulcan ...

NASA to reveal Artemis 2 moon astronauts on April 3

It was the first-ever mission for the SLS, the most powerful rocket ever to launch successfully, and just the second for Orion, after an uncrewed test flight to Earth orbit back in 2014. (That previous Orion mission lifted off atop a United Launch Alliance ...

SpaceX launches 40 OneWeb internet satellites to orbit, lands rocket

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 40 broadband satellites to orbit for the U.K. company OneWeb on Thursday (March 9) and came back to Earth for a pinpoint touchdown. The two-stage Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida ...

See the night sky shine with ghostly zodiacal light this month

For a few weeks starting on Thursday (March 9), skywatchers have the opportunity to catch a glimpse of a ghostly celestial glowing pyramid of light illuminating the night sky over Earth. This phenomenon ...

NASA gets $27.2 billion in White House's 2024 budget request

NASA will get a funding boost next year, if all goes according to plan. The White House's federal budget request for fiscal year 2024, which was released today (March 9), allocates $27.2 billion to NASA. That's $1.8 billion more than the agency got ...

NASA tracks a newly discovered asteroid that has a 'small chance' of hitting Earth in 2046

Astronomers recently spotted the 2023 DW asteroid, depicted in a rendering. The space rock is more than 11 million miles from Earth. NASA. Sign up ...

Bees learn waggle dance moves with a little help from their coworkers

Booty-shaking worker bees guide their fellow workers to pollen by a form of communication known as "waggle dancing" — performing steps that map out where food is located and how far it is from the hive.

NASA scientists push for a treaty to tackle risky 'space junk'

"Satellites are vital to the health of our people, economies, security, and Earth itself. However, using space to benefit people and the planet is at risk," one of the experts urging for the space junk treaty and Head of Spaceport Cornwall, Melissa Quinn, ...

Scientific American

Are Telescopes on the Moon Doomed?

Scientific American

For radioastronomers, the far side of the Moon could be the last unspoilt refuge in the Solar System. Planet Earth — and all the human-made electromagnetic noise it spews out into space — stays permanently below the horizon, so that any radio ...