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Archive for July, 2025

Collaboration or collapse: Why Earth observation must be a global mission

July 31st, 2025 by me

Satellites don’t stop at borders and neither should science.

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Saturn’s largest moon Titan casts a colossal shadow in breathtaking amateur portrait (photo)

July 31st, 2025 by me

Efrain Morales captured the image of Titan’s shadow darkening Saturn on July 18, while the gas giant was over 800 million miles from Earth.

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Good news for Mars settlers? Red Planet glaciers are mostly pure water ice, study suggests

July 31st, 2025 by me

Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any explorers that might land there one day, a new study finds.

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Kate Rubins, 1st astronaut to sequence DNA in space, leaves NASA

July 31st, 2025 by me

NASA astronaut Kathleen “Kate” Rubins has retired from the space agency after 16 years, two missions on the International Space Station, four spacewalks and 300 days in space.

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US Space Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane launching Aug. 21 to test quantum sensor and laser-communications tech

July 31st, 2025 by me

The U.S. Space Force plans to launch the eighth mission of its mysterious X-37B space plane on Aug. 21 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The flight will study experimental technology in orbit.

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Artemis 2 astronauts stress importance of their moon mission as NASA faces budget, workforce cuts: ‘We have to move the needle.’

July 31st, 2025 by me

NASA’s next moon astronauts underscored the importance of their upcoming Artemis 2 mission despite a turbulent time for the space agency full of budget cuts and workforce reductions.

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‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ is a love letter to the Space Age we always dreamed of

July 31st, 2025 by me

From rocketships and exoplanets, to FTL and black holes, there’s something for every space fan in Marvel’s “The Fantastic Four: First Steps.”

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JWST sees beauty in the death of a star, offers a preview of what’s in store for our sun

July 31st, 2025 by me

The James Webb Space Telescope’s investigations of the planetary nebula NGC 6072 suggest a second star played a hand in sculpting the death of the primary star.

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