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Chinese private rocket launches 1st satellite for international ...
10 hours ago · Chinese company CAS Space takes steps toward 1st launch of reusable rocket. A 5/5 record for Kinetica-1! Among those onboard the mission is an Omani IRSS-1/OL-1 remote sensing satellite. This ...
SpaceX Starship launches: Flight 6 mission updates | Space
Oct 11, 2024 · Flight 6 of SpaceX's Starship and Super Heavy booster is scheduled to lift off no earlier than Monday, Nov. 18, from the company's Starbase test site near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas. Liftoff ...
China moving at 'breathtaking speed' in final frontier, Space Force ...
Apr 10, 2024 · In particular, China seems intent on rising up the space-power ladder, as U.S. officials have repeatedly pointed out over the past few years — including, once again, on Tuesday (April 9 ...
Scientists found 'nitriles' in an interstellar cloud — here's why that ...
16 hours ago · The Taurus molecular cloud (TMC-1) is an interstellar cloud in the constellations Taurus and Auriga, and the newly discovered molecules within are known as malononitrile and maleonitrile. The ...
A black hole's secrets could hide in its dizzying light 'echoes'
1 day ago · Here’s how it works. Outbursts in the accretion disk of a black hole can result in light echoes that take longer to reach us because they travel around the black hole.(Image credit: ESO/M ...
China will explore the moon, Mars, asteroids and Jupiter over the …
Oct 17, 2024 · China's next two lunar missions will follow in 2026 and 2028, Li said. These will be Chang'e 7 and Chang'e 8, respectively. Both will attempt to land near the lunar south pole. The first will hunt ...
Nearby exoplanet is a 1st-of-its-kind 'steam world,’ James Webb …
Oct 11, 2024 · GJ 9827 d was first discovered by the Kepler space telescope in 2017. The exoplanet is located just 5.2 million miles (8.4 million kilometers) from its host star, GJ 9827, which is around 6% of ...
Mysterious, city-size 'centaur' comet gets 300 times brighter after ...
13 hours ago · A mysterious volcanic comet has just reawoken, unleashing four major eruptions in less than 48 hours and spraying out enough of its icy guts to make the city-size object appear almost 300 times ...
James Webb Space Telescope takes center stage in 'Infinite …
Oct 14, 2024 · A page from Ethan Siegel's new JWST book, "Infinite Cosmos" (Image credit: National Geographic) Siegel is well known in the scientific community and with this new JWST book he wanted to provide a ...