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SpaceX’s Latest Starship Test Flight Ends with Another Explosion
Associated Press - Fri Mar 7, 2025
Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down and broke apart. More»

Powerful twin solar flares erupt from sun as cell phone outages spike across US
Space.com - Thu Feb 22, 2024
Tens of thousands of outages were reported by major cellular carriers throughout the United States after a pair of powerful solar flares erupted from the sun on February 21 and February 22. More»

Scientists Are Still Trying to Explain Mysterious Space Object 'Oumuamua's Odd Behavior
Discover - Thu Apr 20, 2023
Nearly five years after its discovery, the interstellar object continues to baffle astronomers. More»

Massive Solar Eruption Captured by Solar Orbiter Spacecraft
SciTech Daily - Sun Feb 20, 2022
The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the largest solar prominence eruption ever observed in a single image together with the full solar disc. More»

China’s Lunar Lander Detects Moon Water Up-Close in Historic First
PetaPixel - Sun Jan 9, 2022
China’s Chang’e 5 lunar lander has found the first-ever on-site evidence of water on the Moon’s surface. More»

The Longest Lunar Eclipse in Centuries Will Happen This Week
Miami Herald - Tue Nov 16, 2021
You can see the longest partial lunar eclipse in hundreds of years this week. More»

Juno probe provides the first 3D view of Jupiter's atmosphere
Yahoo News - Sun Oct 31, 2021
NASA's Juno probe has provided a better, deeper look at Jupiter's atmosphere. More»

Sun fires off major solar flare from Earth-facing sunspot
Space.com - Thu Oct 28, 2021
Solar particles blasted out in association with the flare could hit Earth tomorrow (October 29). More»

Jeff Bezos says spaceflight reinforced his commitment to solving climate change
NBC News - Tue Jul 20, 2021
Jeff Bezos flew to the edge of space and said he came back a changed man. More»

China's rover sends back its first 'selfies' from Mars
AFP - Wed May 19, 2021
Solar panels against an alien landscape, ramps and rods pointing at the Martian horizon - China's first probe on the Red Planet has beamed back its first "selfies" after its history-making landing last week. More»

China's Tianwen-1 mission nails historic rover landing on Mars
CNet - Sat May 15, 2021
The Zhurong rover's arrival on the red planet heralds a new era in space exploration for the Chinese space agency. More»

Mars Rover Perseverance Goes For a Spin
Raw Story - Sat Mar 6, 2021
The Mars rover Perseverance has successfully conducted its first test drive on the Red Planet, the US space agency NASA said Friday. More»

China releases image of its flag on the moon as spacecraft carrying lunar rocks lifts off
CBS News - Fri Dec 4, 2020
A Chinese spacecraft lifted off from the moon Thursday night with a load of lunar rocks, the first stage of its return to Earth, the government space agency reported. More»

Water On The Moon: NASA Confirms
NPR - Mon Oct 26, 2020
NASA has confirmed the presence of water on the moon's sunlit surface, a breakthrough that suggests the chemical compound that is vital to life on Earth could be distributed across more parts of the lunar surface than the ice that has previously been found in dark and cold areas. More»

NASA says an asteroid is headed our way right before Election Day
CNN - Sat Aug 22, 2020
Amid a pandemic, civil unrest and a divisive US election season, we now have an asteroid zooming toward us. More»

20 New Moons Found Around Saturn
Space.com - Wed Oct 9, 2019
Astronomers just discovered 20 previously unknown Saturn moons, boosting the ringed planet's tally of known satellites to 82 â€” three more than Jupiter. More»

India farmers shocked as suspected meteorite crashes into rice field
AFP - Sat Jul 27, 2019
New Delhi - A suspected meteorite the size of a football plunged into a rice field in eastern India, startling farmers, authorities said Thursday. More»

Buzz Aldrin, second man on moon, recalls 'magnificent desolation'
Reuters - Wed Jul 17, 2019
LOS ANGELES, California - Fifty years after their history-making voyage to the moon, Buzz Aldrin recalls the first moments of the Apollo 11 launch being so smooth that he and his two crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins, were unsure precisely when they left the ground. More»

NASA Rover May Have Just Discovered Life on Mars
Yahoo News - Sat Jun 22, 2019
NASA's exploration rover on Mars, Curiosity, just discovered some gas that could prove the existence of life on the Red Planet. More»

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in action after hardware problem
c|net - Fri Jan 18, 2019
On January 8, the Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA's journeyman telescope Hubble went out of action. More»

Organic Matter Found on Mars, NASA Reveals in Major Announcement
The Independent - Wed Jun 6, 2018
Nasa's Curiosity rover has found organic matter preserved on Mars, in a discovery that could suggest it was once home to life. More»

New Form of Water, Both Liquid and Solid, Is 'Really Strange'
New York Times - Fri Feb 9, 2018
Long theorized to be found in the mantles of Uranus and Neptune, the confirmation of the existence of superionic ice could lead to the development of new materials. More»

Cassini to meet 'spectacular end'
Trib Live - Sat Apr 22, 2017
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - NASA's Cassini spacecraft faces one last perilous adventure around Saturn. More»

Mars has flowing rivers of briny water, NASA satellite reveals
PBS - Mon Sep 28, 2015
Over the weekend, NASA hinted that they had solved a major Martian mystery. More»

Excited UFO Hunters Claim 'Stonehenge On Mars' Discovery
Yahoo! - Mon Sep 28, 2015
A NASA image of several stones on the red planet has got alien enthusiasts in a spin, with many claiming the picture is an indication of extra-terrestrial life. More»

Mysterious Mars Mound May Be Result Of Ancient Lava Flows, NASA Says
Huffington Post - Sat Dec 6, 2014
A weird circular landform recently spotted on the surface of Mars might look like a deformed waffle--or maybe the surface of a human brain. More»

Subatomic calculations indicate finite lifespan for universe
Reuters - Tue Feb 19, 2013
BOSTON - Scientists are still sorting out the details of last year's discovery of the Higgs boson particle, but add up the numbers and it's not looking good for the future of the universe, scientists said Monday. More»

Fossils of Martian bugs found on meteorite that landed on Earth 13,000 years ago
Daily Mail, UK - Sat Nov 28, 2009
New evidence has made it more likely that remnants of Martian microbes were transported to Earth in a meteorite. More»

Moon's phases ARE linked with epilepsy
Daily Mail, UK - Sat Nov 21, 2009
Superstitions about the influence of the Moon on the brain and, in particular, on epilepsy and seizures, have been around for centuries, but according to new research there may be something in them after all. More»

NASA Finds 'Significant' Water On Moon
CNN - Fri Nov 13, 2009
NASA said Friday it had discovered water on the moon, opening "a new chapter" that could allow for the development of a lunar space station. More»

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