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NASA’s new sun-studying mission ‘PUNCH’ attains its final form in Earth orbit

Submit on Friday, August 15th, 2025 02:11

The four spacecraft of NASA’s PUNCH mission have successfully locked in place in Earth orbit.

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TRAPPIST-1d isn’t the Earth-like planet scientists had hoped it to be, according to JWST data

Submit on Friday, August 15th, 2025 01:11

As another world around TRAPPIST-1 shows no signs of an atmosphere, astronomers urge us not to give up hope for an Earth-like atmosphere on one of the other worlds in the system.

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US Space Force’s new deep space radar tracks multiple satellites 22,000 miles away in key test

Submit on Friday, August 15th, 2025 00:11

The U.S. Space Force’s powerful new military radar system designed to detect and track objects in distant orbits above Earth has passed an initial key test.

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Discovery of 250 ‘mini galaxies’ could help scientists pin down the nature of dark matter

Submit on Thursday, August 14th, 2025 23:11

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

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Trump signs executive order to boost commercial space — and shift NASA’s balance of power

Submit on Thursday, August 14th, 2025 22:12

The executive order directs multiple federal agencies to streamline launch licensing, fast-track spaceport construction and better support emerging in-space industries.

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Blue Origin pitches new ‘Mars Telecommunications Orbiter’ for Red Planet missions (video)

Submit on Thursday, August 14th, 2025 22:12

Blue Origin has used its Blue Ring spacecraft platform to develop the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter, which the company says could aid future NASA missions to the Red Planet.

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I tried to image the Veil Nebula but accidentally got an ‘Alien’ Xenomorph (photo)

Submit on Thursday, August 14th, 2025 21:11

As ‘Alien: Earth’ hits screens, the night sky delivers a cameo from the franchise’s iconic villain.

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SpaceX sends 28 more Starlink satellites into orbit on Falcon 9 flight from Florida (video)

Submit on Thursday, August 14th, 2025 21:11

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida on Thursday morning (Aug. 14), carrying 28 Starlink broadband satellites into low Earth orbit.

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