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SpaceX, ULA plan rocket launches Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral

2025-09-25 00:19:04

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#^SpaceX, ULA plan rocket launches Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral

Washington DC (UPI) Sep 24, 2025
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Two rocket launches with satellites by Space X and United Launch Alliance are scheduled for Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Central Florida. SpaceX is scheduled to lift off at 4:36 EDT with a Falcon 9 rocket taking 28 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 40. There is a four-hour launch window. This is the 22nd flight scheduled for the

Galaxies reveal hidden maps of dark matter in the early universe

2025-09-25 00:19:04

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#^Galaxies reveal hidden maps of dark matter in the early universe

New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
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A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the universe created by a mysterious substance known as dark matter. In a newly published study in Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers used what they said are the largest-ever samples of special galaxies called Lyman-alpha emitters to study how galaxies clumped toge

New NASA Mission to Reveal Earth's Invisible 'Halo'

2025-09-25 00:19:04

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#^New NASA Mission to Reveal Earth's Invisible 'Halo'

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
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A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the Sun. Understanding the physics of the exosphere is a key step toward forecasting dangerous conditions in near-Earth space, a requirement for protecting Artemis astronauts traveling through the region

Building a Lunar Network: Johnson Tests Wireless Technologies for the Moon

2025-09-25 00:19:04

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#^Building a Lunar Network: Johnson Tests Wireless Technologies for the Moon

Houston TX (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
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NASA engineers are strapping on backpacks loaded with radios, cameras, and antennas to test technology that might someday keep explorers connected on the lunar surface. Their mission: test how astronauts on the Moon will stay connected during Artemis spacewalks using 3GPP (LTE/4G and 5G) and Wi-Fi technologies. "It's exciting to bring lunar spacewalks into the 21st century with the immersi

NASA's Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000

2025-09-25 00:19:04

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#^NASA's Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
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The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found. The official number of exoplanets - planets outside our solar system - tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, so no single planet is considered the 6,000th entry. The number

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Sails Through 25th Sun Flyby

2025-09-25 00:19:04

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#^NASA's Parker Solar Probe Sails Through 25th Sun Flyby

Baltimore MD (SPX) Sep 19, 2025

NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its 25th close approach to the Sun on Sept. 15, matching its record distance of 3.8 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) from the solar surface. Parker Solar Probe checked in with flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland - where the spacecraft was also designed and built - on Sept. 18, transmitting a

NASA says on track to send astronauts around the Moon in 202

2025-09-25 00:19:04

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#^NASA says on track to send astronauts around the Moon in 202

Washington (AFP) Sept 23, 2025

NASA on Tuesday said it was on track to send astronauts to orbit the Moon in early 2026, as the United States races China to return to the lunar surface. Multiple setbacks have delayed the manned mission, dubbed Artemis 2, which is now scheduled for April 2026 at the latest and could come as soon as February. "We intend to keep that commitment," said Lakiesha Hawkins, a top NASA official

Western researchers support international collaboration for planetary defence

2025-09-25 00:19:04

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#^Western researchers support international collaboration for planetary defence

London, Canada (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
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A large international collaboration of nearly 100 researchers, led by Western adjunct professor Auriane Egal, has completed the first-ever comprehensive study of an asteroid tracked from space through to its impact on Earth. The analysis of asteroid 2023 CX1 represents a unique opportunity for both science and planetary defence. The asteroid, quite ordinary by space rock standards, explode

Can IMAP Solve the Mystery of the Bubble in Space!

2025-09-25 00:02:33

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#^Can IMAP Solve the Mystery of the Bubble in Space!

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When astronauts head out into space they are protected from deadly radiation by their spacecraft and on space walks, their space suit. Back on Earth, we too are protected but by an invisible bubble that’s known as the heliosphere. The heliosphere has been subjected to numerous studies over the years but NASA’s newest mission is set to give us the most detailed of it map ever created.

An Impact Between Equals Could Solve The "Mercury Problem"

2025-09-24 22:58:19

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#^An Impact Between Equals Could Solve The "Mercury Problem"

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Mercury's large metallic core is 70% of its mass, which is way more than the other rocky planets. Scientists have wondered if a collision with a much larger body stripped away much of its mantle and crust, and Mercury is only the remnant core of a once much larger planet. New simulations show that's not quite what happened.