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Archive for February, 2025

SpaceX delays Flight 8 of Starship megarocket to March 3

February 27th, 2025 by me

SpaceX has pushed back the eighth test flight of its Starship megarocket by three days, to Monday (March 3).

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James Webb Space Telescope joins cosmic detectives in hunt for dark matter

February 27th, 2025 by me

The James Webb Space Telescope has joined the hunt for dark matter, aiding cosmic detectives in searching for signals indicating axion decay.

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NASA launching its SPHEREx and PUNCH space missions on March 2 after delay: How to watch live

February 27th, 2025 by me

NASA launching its SPHEREx and PUNCH space missions on March 2 at 10:09 p.m. ET.

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SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellite on new Falcon 9 rocket, aces nighttime landing

February 27th, 2025 by me

A new SpaceX rocket launched a pristine batch of Starlink internet satellites into orbit late Wednesday (Feb. 26) in a dazzling nighttime liftoff.

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SpaceX rocket launches private moon lander and NASA ‘trailblazer’ to hunt for lunar water (video)

February 27th, 2025 by me

SpaceX launched a double moon mission today (Feb. 26), sending a private lunar lander and a NASA orbiter to hunt for signs of water on Earth’s nearest neighbor.

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These dwarf galaxies in the Hydra cluster are baffling scientists: ‘We found something we didn’t expect’

February 27th, 2025 by me

Astronomers were surprised to see the behavior of ultrafaint dwarf galaxies located in the Hydra cluster.

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NASA leadership shakeup continues as agency settles into Trump’s 2nd term

February 27th, 2025 by me

Among other changes, Vanessa Wyche, who previously led Johnson Space Center, has been named NASA’s acting associate administrator.

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Watch the asteroid that had us all worried zoom harmlessly through space (video)

February 27th, 2025 by me

Observations from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope helped show that the expected trajectory of asteroid 2024 YR4 poses nearly zero risk of impacting Earth in 2032.

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