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NASA Mars Orbiter Captures Volcano Peeking Above Morning Cloud Tops![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 11, 2025 The 2001 Odyssey spacecraft captured a first-of-its-kind look at Arsia Mons, which dwarfs Earth's tallest volcanoes. A new panorama from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter shows one of the Red Planet's biggest volcanoes, Arsia Mons, poking through a canopy of clouds just before dawn. Arsia Mons and two other volcanoes form what is known as the Tharsis Montes, or Tharsis Mountains, which are often surrounded by water ice clouds (as opposed to Mars' equally common carbon dioxide clouds), especially in ... read more |
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![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2025 Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope set out to detect radiation-induced surface changes on Uranus' largest moons but uncovered a different phenomenon altogether. The team had hypoth ... more ![]() ![]() Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 12, 2025 For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back over 13 billion years to see how the first stars in the universe affect light emitted from the Big Bang. Using tele ... more ![]() ![]() Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 12, 2025 Two BeiDou-3 navigation satellites once plagued by orbit inconsistencies are now operating with significantly improved accuracy, thanks to a novel hybrid modeling technique that better accounts for ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 11, 2025 An online tool maps measurements and enables non-experts to understand earthquakes, subsidence, landslides, and other types of land motion. NASA is collaborating with the Alaska Satellite Faci ... more |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Paris, France (SPX) Jun 12, 2025 Thanks to a newly inclined orbit, ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the first-ever images of the Sun's poles taken from outside the ecliptic plane. This novel vantage point marks a breakth ... more |
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![]() Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 12, 2025 Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has co-authored a paper that uses young stars t ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) June 12, 2025 The European Space Agency (ESA) said Thursday it was looking to bolster alliances with countries other than the United States as it adapts to looming cuts at key partner NASA. ... more ![]() ![]() Paris, France (SPX) Jun 12, 2025 Three years after its founding, European space surveillance firm Look Up has secured EUR 50 million in funding to accelerate the global deployment of its radar network and strengthen its suite of sp ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2025 Northrop Grumman has successfully integrated a robotics payload onto its Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV), advancing its satellite servicing platform under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ... more |
![]() Houston TX (SPX) Jun 12, 2025 In the reduced-gravity space environment, human muscles and bones atrophy faster than they do on Earth. To slow down that process, astronauts need several hours of vigorous exercise each day they ar ... more ![]() ![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books |
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![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2025 York Space Systems (York), the Denver-based aerospace technology company dedicated to the rapid deployment of complete space mission solutions, reports that its Dragoon mission is ready for launch. ... more ![]() ![]() Paris, France (SPX) Jun 11, 2025 String theory has long been touted as physicists' best candidate for describing the fundamental nature of the universe, with elementary particles and forces described as vibrations of tiny threads o ... more ![]() ![]() East Lansing MI (SPX) Jun 11, 2025 Star and planet formation has largely been considered separate, sequential processes. But in a new study, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have modeled a different scenario where pl ... more ![]() ![]() Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Jun 11, 2025 Astrophysicists have gained precious new insights into how distant "exoplanets" form and what their atmospheres can look like, after using the James Webb Telescope to image two young exoplanets in e ... more |
![]() London, UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2025 Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our Sun. Like many small stars, it is not expected to provide suitable conditions for the formation and ... more ![]() ![]() Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jun 11, 2025 An international team of scientists has published a new report that moves towards a better understanding of the behaviour of some of the heaviest particles in the universe under extreme conditions, ... more ![]() ![]() Washington DC (UPI) Jun 10, 2025 China is positioning a satellite to test its ability to refuel another in orbit over Earth and extend its mission for several more years. ... more ![]() ![]() Washington DC (UPI) Jun 10, 2025 The Axiom-4 mission launch, the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, was canceled for a second time Tuesday after SpaceX detected a liquid oxygen leak in its Falcon 9 rocket. ... more |
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![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2025 Aethero, a defense-focused startup building space-grade computers and autonomous satellite platforms, has announced $8.4M in seed funding. The company's seed round is led by Kindred Ventures with pa ... more ![]() ![]() Brussels, Belgium (AFP) June 10, 2025 The EU on Tuesday cleared European satellite group SES's $3.1 billion acquisition of US rival Intelsat, a move the company hopes will help it compete in a race for space-based internet services, currently led by Elon Musk's Starlink. ... more ![]() ![]() Washington DC (UPI) Jun 10, 2025 SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday morning. ... more ![]() ![]() Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 11, 2025 A Chinese private rocket firm has successfully tested transporting packages from Taobao, one of the country's largest e-commerce platforms, using a reusable rocket. The rocket was later recovered fr ... more |
![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2025 BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has delivered the first very high-resolution images from the company's second Gen-3 satellite just 12 hours following its successful launch last Monday. " ... more |
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![]() Washington (AFP) June 7, 2025 SpaceX's rockets ferry US astronauts to the International Space Station. Its Starlink satellite constellation blankets the globe with broadband, and the company is embedded in some of the Pentagon's most sensitive projects, including tracking hypersonic missiles. ... more ![]() ![]() Tokyo (AFP) June 6, 2025 Japan's hopes of achieving its first soft touchdown on the Moon by a private company were dashed Friday when the mission was aborted after an assumed crash-landing, the startup said. ... more ![]() ![]() Washington (AFP) June 6, 2025 Robert Zubrin quite literally wrote the book on why humanity should go to Mars - so why has the renowned aerospace engineer soured on Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur leading the charge? ... more ![]() ![]() Washington (AFP) June 6, 2025 A crewed mission to Mars would rank among the most complex and costly undertakings in human history - and US President Donald Trump has vowed to make it a national priority. ... more |
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