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Space & Cosmos
Punch Mission Instruments collects the first image
On April 14, 2025, the SWRI-led Punch Mission opened the doors of two instruments, collecting this first light image, showing that the camera was focusing, working properly, and capturing the universe’s glare in space deep in the “night” sky. You can see several familiar constellations, such as Taurus (right side of the top center) and Pleiades (top right). The soft…
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Atmospheric Wave Research Mission releases data from the first 3,000 orbits
This image shows awe awe data combined from the paths of two instruments over the US. The red and orange wave structures show an increase in infrared luminance (or radiance) produced by aero in the Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: NASA/AWE/LUDGER SCHERLIESS Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA’s adoration (Atmosphere Wave Experiment) on the International Space Station, researchers have publicly released the…
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Do you remember an asteroid that doesn’t hit the Earth? We can send a mission to explore it
The artist’s impression of the asteroid. Credit: ESA-Science Office Last year, astronomers detected asteroids near Earth (NEA) 2024 YR4, which orbit the Sun every four years and regularly cross the Earth’s orbit. The nature of the orbit makes it a potentially dangerous object (PHO). This means that one day it could pose a collision risk to the Earth. Recently, refined…
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Oops, we flipped it over again: the sideways US Lander mission
The image shows the company’s Athena spacecraft on its side after landing on the moon on March 6, 2025. The intuitive machine’s second moon mission ended in disappointment Friday after a US company confirmed that the spacecraft had been turned over and could not charge the solar-powered battery. With futuristic hopping drones, multiple rovers, ice drills and 4G network testing,…
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The US military’s mini space shuttle X-37B returns to Earth after being in orbit for 434 days on a secret mission
This photo, provided by the US Space Force, was successfully landed at Vandenburg Space Force Base, California on March 7, 2025, and successfully completed the US Space Force via the AP, and was blood drawn and landed at Vandenburg Space Force Base, California, and provided by the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 (OTV-7). The US military’s classified mini space shuttle returned…
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Red Planet Roving: New Paper Document First Mars Mission Soil Sample
NASA’s patient Mars rover took this selfie in July 2024. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS A new paper released today records the first soil, airfall Dust, and Rock Fragment samples collected by NASA for its return from Mars. Astrobiologists from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, lead the specimen selection team. This paper is published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. Until…
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NASA JPL prepares for year-round launches and mission milestones
NASA JPL shows, clockwise from bottom right, the launches of CADRE (whose engineering model is shown here), Lunar Trailblazer, NISAR (shown in artist’s concept), Sentinel-6B (artist’s concept), and SPHEREx. We are making preparations. Europa Clipper’s Mars Gravity Assist (artist’s concept). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/BAE Systems/Lockheed Martin Space As 2024 recedes into the distance, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is already entering a busy…
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Space Launch System could launch Titan balloon mission
An artist’s drawing of a balloon over Titan. Credit: Donahue et al. Few places in the solar system are better suited for ballooning than Titan. The combination of low gravity and high atmospheric density makes Saturn’s largest moons ideal for lighter-than-air vehicles, and the idea of placing them there has been around for at least 20 years. So why hasn’t…
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Indian rocket launches space docking mission
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain India on Monday launched a rocket carrying two small spacecraft to conduct a docking test in space. This is an important step towards the country’s dream of a space station and a manned moon mission. The mission is “crucial for India’s future space ambitions,” Jitendra Singh, the country’s science and technology minister, said in a pre-launch…
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Asteroid sample return mission allows researchers to conduct largest geophysical observation campaign of its kind
An animated Osiris-Rex departs from the asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space. Along with this, a treasure trove of data has also been created. An international research team led by Sandia National Laboratories and including researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory published…
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