Good Morning, Earth! – NASA

On 17 June at 09:21 local time (13:21 BST, 14:21 CEST), Ariane 6 flight VA269 soared to orbit from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. 36 satellites for Amazon’s Leo constellation left Earth powered by four P160C-based boosters, the first time these upgraded boosters were used – making this launch the most powerful so far for…

I’m a physicist, and scientists like me observe the world around us mainly by looking for signals from different wavelengths of light. So no matter what type of technology scientists use, they run into the same issue in the hunt for dark matter. It’s not completely impossible to interact with dark matter, though, because it…

Back to Pic of the Day List Chirag Upreti from New York City Active region AR 4475, a cluster of sunspots that emerged June 22, drifts beside the broadcast mast of the Empire State Building. Sunspots are patches of intense magnetism on that Sun’s surface that are slightly cooler — and therefore not as bright…

FRIDAY, JUNE 26 ■ This evening the Moon shines under the three-star head of summery Scorpius, as shown below. Orange Antares, the Scorpion’s 1st-magnitude heart, glimmers 5° or 6° to the Moon’s left. That’s about three finger-widths at arm’s length. By the time twilight ends and the night is fully dark, this scene will be…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to deliver SiriusXM’s SXM-11 satellite to a geosynchronous transfer orbit. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Sunday carrying a multi-ton, radio-broadcasting satellite for SiriusXM’s to replace two aging satellites in geostationary Earth orbit….

NASA provided an Artemis update today (June 30), announcing new lunar landing contracts for its Moon Base initiative and a surprise new possible rover mission that could be headed to the moon’s south pole. During the second monthly update that NASA has provided for its moon base plans, the agency named Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace and…