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NASA has awarded three new robotic missions to the Moon, taking another step toward its goal of building a permanent lunar base. The nearly $600 million initiative comes as the agency keeps its long-term plans on track despite recent setbacks involving one of its commercial launch partners. Before astronauts can spend extended periods on the…
Enabling & Support 15/06/2026 9532 views 97 likes In brief The next Ariane 6 launch is scheduled for 17 June This flight will feature upgraded boosters based on the P160C solid-propellant rocket motor Flight VA269 will launch 36 satellites for the Amazon Leo constellation In-depth P160C based booster for Ariane 6 arrives at the launch…
Contents Telescopes 101 What kind of telescope is right for you? All about refractors All about reflectors All about compound telescopes All about smart telescopes All about mounts and drives Which accessories are right for you? Understanding eyepieces Understanding binoculars Become an observer in 10 simple steps Start exploring the sky Telescopes 101 Buying your…
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission snapped this stunning picture of a crescent Earth during a Nov. 13, 2009, flyby of our planet. This was the final Earth flyby on the craft’s journey to its ultimate destination: Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA/OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA/Gordan Ugarković At the end of the classic 1939 film The Wizard of…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the infrared light of numerous features that previously were impossible to see beyond the thick dust of the FS Tau star system. In addition to myriad background galaxies that burst into view like fireworks for the United States’ 250th anniversary celebrations, this image flickers with a number of…
Astronomers may be getting closer to solving a long-standing mystery about the universe’s largest galaxies. Observations from the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, known as XRISM, are providing new evidence that supermassive black holes could be preventing these giant galaxies from forming as many stars as expected. According to current models, the most massive galaxies…
WASHINGTON — An Atlas 5 lifted off July 2 carrying a set of Amazon Leo satellites in the final launch by that vehicle to carry a satellite payload. The Atlas 5 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 12:30 a.m. Eastern. The rocket carried 29 Amazon Leo satellites that were deployed starting 21…
One of the biggest unsolved problems in physics centers on a number known as the cosmological constant. This value describes the energy responsible for the universe’s accelerating expansion. It also sits at the heart of a major conflict between two of science’s most successful theories. According to quantum field theory (QFT), the framework that describes…
On the 17th of June Ariane 6 flight VA269 soared to orbit from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The latest generation of Europe’s largest and most powerful rocket launched 36 satellites for Amazon’s Leo constellation. The debut of the four new boosters based on the P160C solid-propellant rocket motor allowed 36 satellites to be launched,…
If you’ve seen illustrations or models of the solar system, maybe you noticed that all the planets orbit the Sun in more or less the same plane, traveling in the same direction. But what is above and below that plane? And why are the planets’ orbits aligned like this, in a flat pancake, rather than…