Hey, Space Fans! We're going interplanetary today with a new Mars discovery. We've called it the "Red Planet" for ages, but scientists now say they may finally understand how rust made the planet red in the first place!
Understanding how this rust formed offers a crucial glimpse into the planetβs past β was it once warm and wet, or always cold and dry? And, more importantly, did it ever support life? Let's find out.
On the giant rocket front, SpaceX says it's nearly ready to launch its next megarocket.
The company's Starship Flight 8 test flight is scheduled to launch on Friday, Feb. 28, and include new upgrades to avoid the "attic" fires that doomed its Flight 7 Starship. (More on that below!)
In human spaceflight news, Blue Origin just hit a milestone with its 10th crewed flight.
The company's New Shepard rocket launch its NS-30 mission to carry six paying passengers into suborbital space. But Blue Origin only named five of the passengers, so who was No. 6?
A bit farther from home, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander - the company's first - is closing in on our nearest neighbor, the moon. To celebrate, the lander captured stunning imagery of the Earth and moon.
A powerful signal in deep space has led scientists to a haunting discovery: A "cosmic graveyard" of ancient stars that is forcing a rethink in conventional theory.
"This new fast radio burst shows us that just when you think you understand an astrophysical phenomenon, the universe turns around and surprises us."
Remember SpaceX's Starship Flight 7? We mentioned earlier that it had fires in the "attic." Well, SpaceX explained that on Monday as it announced the launch date for Starship Flight 8. After an investigation, the company traced the Ship vehicle's failure to a propellant leak that sparked fires in an unpressurized space above the engines that led to a shutdown, forcing an explosive abort.
As we look to the future of Star Wars on the big screen, we've been anticipating the second season of Andor for a very long time now. Roughly two months before its big return to Disney Plus, Lucasfilm and Disney have finally shared a first public trailer, and it's not exactly what we expected... but in a good way.
On Feb. 25, 1982, the Western Union company launched a communication satellite called Westar 4. Western Union was the first American telecommunications company to have a fleet of its own satellites.
Westar 4 was twice as big as the first three Westar satellites and had four times the communications capacity.It lifted off from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 3910 rocket at 7:04 p.m. Eastern Time and entered a geostationary orbit.
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