Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander Bids Farewell to Earth on Its Way to the Moon
The Blue Ghost mission launched on Wednesday, January 15, on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is currently around halfway ...
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Fastest exoplanet ever is dragged through space at 1.2 million mph by hypervelocity star
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.
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NASA embraced diversity. Trump’s DEI purge is hitting space scientists hard
Some researchers at NASA and outside it feel betrayed by the changes at the agency, which was known for promoting inclusion ...
2 space objects are traveling so fast, they might exit the galaxy
In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...
India raises budget for Gaganyaan human spaceflight mission to $2.32 billion
India has expanded its Gaganyaan human spaceflight mission to include building and operating a national space station, ...
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Discover The Mission Behind Krystle Knight Jewelry With A Deep Dive Into The Founder
Krystle Knight had a vision—a dream woven with the raw, natural beauty of crystals and the power they hold. In 2013, that ...
Gaia Discovers a Massive Exoplanet and a Brown Dwarf
Since its launch in 2013, Gaia has been dedicated to creating an accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. Using two high-precision optical telescopes, the spacecraft carefully records the ...
Fast moving exoplanet system may be the fastest ever discovered
A star system has been discovered to be moving at an estimated 1.2 million miles per hour, making it possibly the fastest moving solar system in our galaxy.
Mars art installation on display at cathedral
A seven-metre-wide sculpture of Mars is on display at a cathedral in Kent. Luke Jerram's Mars: War and Peace, which features ...
Gaia Just Found Two Massive Objects That Shouldn’t Exist – And Astronomers Are Stunned
Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...
There could be a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud hurling stars at the Milky Way
Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.
SpaceX pushes to Saturday planned launch from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX was set to send up the 13th launch from the Space Coast this year on Friday afternoon, but has retargeted efforts to Saturday. A Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 12-9 mission carrying 21 ...