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‘It’s extremely worrisome.’ NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch
The scientists behind NASA's largest and most powerful space telescope ever built are bracing for potentially crippling budget cuts, and the observatory is only halfway through its primary mission.The team overseeing NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been...
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Gigantic star has gone through a rapid transformation and may explode
One of the largest stars in the known universe is undergoing a strangely rapid transformation and may soon explode...
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NASA Sends Experiment to Space to Study Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria – NASA
In an effort to learn more about astronaut health and the effects of space on the human body, NASA is conducting a new experiment aboard the International Space Station to speed up the detection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, thus improving...
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NASA Sets Briefings for Next International Space Station Crew Missions – NASA
NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming Expedition 73 mission aboard the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Monday, Feb. 24, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Mission leadership will participate in an...
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Unlocking Venus’ Secrets with VATMOS-SR Mission Concept
What can Venus atmospheric samples returned to Earth teach us about the varied evolution of both planets? This is what a recent study presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall 2024 Meeting discussed a compelling mission concept called...
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‘City-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon instead of us, scientists say
An asteroid that's big enough to wipe out a city has a 1-in-43 chance of hitting our planet in the year 2032. But according to new calculations, there's an even smaller chance that it might crash into the moon...
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NASA Sets Coverage of Firefly’s First Robotic Commercial Moon Landing – NASA
With a suite of NASA science and technology on board, Firefly Aerospace is targeting no earlier than 3:45 a.m. EST on Sunday, March 2, to land the Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon. Blue Ghost is slated to...
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ESA Business Incubation Centres celebrate two decades of innovation
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14/02/2025
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14 likesOn 13 and 14 February 2025, the European Space Agency (ESA) celebrated 20 years of supporting space innovation through its ESA Business Incubation Centres (BIC) network. The event in Munich, Germany, brought together entrepreneurs, successful...
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Meet the man who single-handedly tracks every spaceflight mission ever
Jonathan McDowell has been a load-bearing part of the world’s spaceflight knowledge for more than four decades. His monthly...
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A Hyper Velocity Star Found with an Exoplanet Hanging on for Dear Life
Hypervelocity stars have been seen before but NASA scientists have just identified a potential record-breaking exoplanet system. They found a hypervelocity star that has a super-Neptune exoplanet in orbit around it. This discovery could reshape our understanding of planetary...
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Shock over Bibas body mix-up is latest hurdle in fragile ceasefire
Israel's announcement that a body returned from Gaza on Thursday was not that of Shiri Bibas, as Hamas had...
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