The sun sets behind a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center…
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NASA and SpaceX Investigate Re-Enhancing Hubble’s Orbiting Telescope to Add Years to Its Operational Life
3D animation showing the Hubble Space Telescope above Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & LL Christensen)…
Dramatic images show a spacecraft colliding with an asteroid
A version of this story appeared in the Scientific Bulletin of The Theory of Wonders on…
Asteroid analysis reveals unexpected evidence of young ocean and carbonation
Asteroids are many things – killers of dinosaurs, archives of the early days of the solar…
The Hubble Space Telescope discovers the protective shield that defends a pair of dwarf galaxies
Scientists have used ultraviolet spectroscopic observations from quasars to detect and map the Corona Magellanic, a…
Discover the site of a rare meteorite impact in Inver Grove Heights
A rare meteorite crash site has been discovered in Inver Grove Heights – the first site…
The Florida Space Coast is on the right track after Ian, and it is scheduled to launch 3 times in 3 days
Zoom / United Launch Alliance moves its Atlas V booster to the vertical integration facility adjacent…
Ha! Closest view of Jupiter’s moon in the ocean Europa 22 years ago
NASA’s Jupiter-gazing spacecraft has obtained a rare close-up of an ice world. The Juno The probe…
Scientists determine the source of the unexpected geological activity of the planet Ceres
The dwarf planet Ceres is featured in these false-colored designs, which highlight differences in surface materials.…
NASA spacecraft captures a picture of the ocean world orbiting Jupiter while flying close to it
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