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…Star Catcher says its customer base spans commercial space operators and U.S. Government stakeholders…

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MaiaSpace has started dismantling the former launch complex used for Russian Soyuz-ST rockets at the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.

This Telescope Launches Despite and To Spite Fascists.

On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, or LECP. The nuclear-powered spacecraft is running low on power, and turning off the LECP is considered the best way to keep humanity’s first interstellar explorer going.

As Nasa’s Artemis II mission looped the Moon, something important changed back on Earth, says Caitlin Gould.

A hard shell that unfolds like oragami will fit in a single Starship payload but expand to over 250k cubic meters of space (which seems impossible, that’s like 10 olympic pools) and offers practical solutions for many of the common engineering challenges with building long-term human habitations in orbit.

British scientists have launched a crew of microscopic worms to the International Space Station in a pioneering experiment that could help unlock the secrets of long-duration space travel - and support ambitions to reach the Moon and beyond.

It seems relatively mature for an early access game. Reviews are generally positive and suggest that the core foundation is enjoyable in it’s current state.

…The reason physicists have been skeptical about wormholes comes down to a problem with energy. To hold the throat of a wormhole open, you would need something called exotic matter. In physics, ordinary matter (stars, gas, you, your coffee) always has a positive energy density which corresponds to positive mass. Exotic matter would have negative energy density, essentially “negative mass.” We have never observed anything like that in nature. Most wormhole solutions that physicists have found over the decades require this exotic matter to exist, which is why wormholes have stayed firmly in the category of “mathematically possible but physically unlikely.” Today’s paper offers a way around this problem.

Bonus eclipse photo! More pics are being uploaded here: https://images.nasa.gov/

For 3.8 billion years, the breathtaking view of the Orientale basin has lain hidden towards the far side of the moon.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

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…The discovery of DF2 proved that dark matter is a distinct, physical substance that can be separated from normal matter. This was a severe blow to Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), which was designed to account for why stars at the outer edges of galaxies were moving too fast. MOND posits that at extremely low accelerations, like those experienced by stars at the edge of a galaxy, gravity acts a little bit stronger than expected.

The satellite, named Atenea, is a 12U-class CubeSat measuring 30 by 20 by 20 centimeters and weighing 15 kilograms

The astronaut who prompted NASA’s first medical evacuation earlier this year said Friday that doctors still don’t know why he suddenly fell sick at the International Space Station.

…The orbiter has been in space for nearly 17 years now, the longest of any lunar-orbiting mission. An advantage of always having this spacecraft whizzing around the Moon is that we can see when anything changes on the lunar surface…

“A recent search for water ice has turned up empty, casting doubt on the abundance of the valuable resource on the lunar surface.”

…Isaacman also confirmed that NASA will no longer build a Lunar Gateway in orbit around the Moon, but would rather focus all of its energy and resources on the lunar surface…

Now you don’t need expensive equipment to debunk flat earthers!

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Asteroids would’ve supplied the necessary raw materials, heat, and geologic plumbing to circulate prebiotic matter while also creating freshwater crater lakes conducive to supporting life.

At approximately 18:55 CET (17:55 UTC) on Sunday 8 March 2026, a very bright fireball moving from the southwest to the northeast was observed by many people in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands