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The DART mission is about to collide with an asteroid. What to expect (CNN) On Monday, a NASA spacecraft will deliberately slam into an asteroid called Dimorphos. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, or DART, aims to see if this kind of kinetic impact ...
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Maarten Schmidt, Caltech astronomer who changed our understanding of the cosmos, dies A professor emeritus at Caltech, Schmidt died Saturday at 92. Schmidt had only recently arrived at Caltech when he ascended in the observing cage of the great Palomar Mountain telescope to try to understand measurements radio astronomers ...
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A bizarre fast radio burst came from a binary system, astronomers say Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are bright, powerful emissions of radio waves ranging from a fraction of a millisecond to a few milliseconds, each producing energy equivalent to the sun's annual output. Recent ...
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NASA's Artemis 1 moon launch scheduled for Sept. 27 despite gathering storm The space agency continues to target Tuesday (Sept. 27) for the launch of Artemis 1 from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, even though a big storm is brewing in the Caribbean. That storm could intensify into a hurricane, and it may have the Space ...
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Next launch attempt of Artemis I set for Tuesday, but could delay due to tropical depression The 70-minute launch window opens at 11:37 a.m. ET and the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft continue to sit on the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Concerns over the weather system forming in the Caribbean put the weather ...
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JWST shows Neptune's splendor amid landscape of galaxies In this image by Webb's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), a smattering of hundreds of background galaxies, varying in size and shape, appear alongside the Neptune system. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Fresh images from the James Webb Space Telescope show ...
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NASA is taking its first shot at deflecting an asteroid DART was launched in Nov. 2021 onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and has spent the intervening time heading for a unique pair of asteroid that are relatively close to Earth in astronomical terms. The larger one, ...
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Possible hurricane poses threat to NASA's Artemis moon launch plans NASA is pressing ahead toward another attempt to launch the Artemis 1 moon rocket on its leak-delayed maiden flight Tuesday while closely monitoring the track of an expected hurricane that threatens to bring high winds and heavy rain to the Florida ...
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Scientists detect something intriguing brewing in Enceladus' seas Now, new research suggests this Saturnian moon's water contains bounties of a critical building block for life (as we know it, anyway). It's phosphorus, an important ingredient in genetic and cellular material. It's the second most abundant mineral in our ...
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Cyclones circling Jupiter's poles still baffling space scientists A team of space scientists affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S., working with a colleague from Italy and another from France has used modeling to partially explain the resilience of cyclones circling Jupiter's poles.
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