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Planning autonomous surface missions on ocean worlds

Phys Dot Org | 2024-12-04, 14:39

Through advanced autonomy testbed programs, NASA is

Personal AI assistants could help astronauts on long missions

Phys Dot Org | 2024-12-04, 14:39

How can artificial intelligence

Falling Asteroid Lights Up Sky in Russia’s Remote Yakutia

The Epoch Times | 2024-12-04, 14:35

An asteroid lit up the sky in Russia’s remote far eastern region of Yakutia early on Wednesday, producing a

See the moon and Venus take a sunset stroll through the night sky tonight

Space | 2024-12-04, 14:30

The two brightest nighttime objects, the moon and the planet Venus put on a lovely display in the western evening sky of Wednesday, Dec. 4. ...

Permits filed for new 9-story residential building in Flushing

QNS | 2024-12-04, 14:03

Permits have been filed for the construction of a

Watch Europe's Vega-C rocket launch today on 1st flight since 2022 (video)

Space | 2024-12-04, 13:36

In its first launch since a catastrophic failure in 2022, the European Space Agency's Vega-C rocket is set to liftoff on its next mission. ...

System Of “Cotton-Candy” Planets Has A Lurking Fourth Member

IFL Science | 2024-12-04, 12:56

The Kepler-51 system, known for having some of the least dense planets ever found, has a fourth member. We don’t know if the newly discovered Kepler-51e shares this notable trait of its sibling planets, as we only know its mass, not size, but the discovery

Launch of SpaceX Starlink mission early Wednesday from Florida sees new Falcon 9 record

Florida Today | 2024-12-04, 12:29

Exploration Tower plan, Northrop expansion and Aldi changes: NI90 FLORIDA TODAY's Rob Landers brings you some of today's top local stories on the News in 90 Seconds. In the chilly hours of Wednesday morning, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took its record-breaking

Watch dramatic moment giant 3,500mph METEOR explodes in blazing white hot fireball over Siberia turning ...

The Sun | 2024-12-04, 11:55

THIS is the astonishing moment a huge meteor exploded in a blazing white fireball as it flew at an incredible 3,500mph. Footage showed the space rock turning Russia’s night sky into day as it burned up in the atmosphere. East2WestThe C0WEPC5 asteroid lit

U.S. Space Force launches Tokyo unit to bolster integrated deterrence

Manila Standard | 2024-12-04, 11:51

TOKYOThe U.S. Space Force on Wednesday launched a unit at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo, with the aim of strengthening space defense and bilateral deterrence capabilities. During the activation ceremony at the U.S. base, Brig. Gen. Anthony

Why Does Earth Have A North Pole Star But No South Pole Star?

IFL Science | 2024-12-04, 11:44

The importance of the North Star, Polaris, is so great we use it as a metaphor for something that reliably guides us; it's aspirational enough for companies to name themselves after it. In the days of GPS, its use may have declined, but memories of its

Will the International Space Station's 2031 death dive cause pollution problems?

Space | 2024-12-04, 11:29

The International Space Station will be steered to a controlled destruction in Earth's atmosphere in 2031, if all goes to plan. Should we be worried about the pollution this death dive will cause? ...

China Focus: Testing mortise-tenon bricks on China's space station for building houses on moon

Xinhua | 2024-12-04, 11:20

WUHAN, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Astronauts aboard China's space station are set to arrange an experiment on brick samples made from simulated lunar soil and featuring mortise-tenon joint structure, which may pave the way for building houses on the moon using lunar

Proba-3: Because it is hard

European Space Agency | 2024-12-04, 10:56

Video: 00:02:02 Not because it is easy but because it is hard: this

SpaceX to launch SiriusXM satellite into orbit Thursday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Florida Today | 2024-12-04, 10:24

SpaceX launches SiriusXM's SXM-8 satellite from Cape Canaveral A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches SiriusXM's SXM-8 satellite from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 12:26 a.m. Sunday, June, 6, 2021. SpaceX On Thursday, SpaceX crews hope to launch

SSTL partners with LatConnect 60 for SWIR payload development

SpaceDaily | 2024-12-04, 10:11

London, UK (SPX) Nov 28, 2024 SSTL has announced the signing of a

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