The European Space Agency’s (ESA) dark universe detective, the Euclid spacecraft, is on track after locating its guiding stars, which it lost as a result of cosmic misidentification. The satellite can now begin...
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The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft performed an engine burn to leave Earth orbit on Saturday (Sept. 30), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced today (Oct. 2). SLIM fired its main engine...
Approximately 2,200 light-years from where you’re sitting lie the Cheerio-shaped remains of a dying star — remnants that form a structure famously known as the Ring Nebula. And on Monday (Aug. 21), scientists announced...
NASA will get just over $24 billion this year, if Congress is able to pass a newly devised omnibus spending bill. The funding package, which allocates a total of $1.5 trillion throughout the government, would give NASA about...
After 10 years fighting back photons in its peripheral vision, a NASA space telescope now has a way to use “nuisance light” to potentially increase its science productivity. NASA’s NuSTAR (Nuclear...