Watch 1st launch of Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket today | Space Quiz! What portion of spiral galaxies have been observed to be warped, or bent? | This exoplanet is our 'best bet' at finding an alien ocean
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The inaugural launch of Europe's new Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket is today, and you can watch it live. The four-hour launch window opens at 11:00 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) today, July 9. Ariane 6 will lift off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana and exercise three phases to demonstrate its next-generation capabilities.
A team of researchers just announced that a tantalizing planet outside the solar system may have a temperate water ocean about half the size of the Atlantic, all thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Silently drifting into Norway's majestic Trollfjord, flanked by towering mountains, their peaks bathed in golden sunlight, I couldn't believe my eyes. It's almost midnight, yet it feels like the middle of the day. The midnight sun is a truly remarkable phenomenon. The eternal daylight stretches one day into another, if you're not careful, you'll lose all concept of time.
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The NEOWISE mission will end on July 31. Building on the its 14-year success, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor) - the first purpose-built infrared space telescope specifically dedicated to hunting hazardous near-Earth objects - will launch in late 2027.
(Kaiyuan Hou and Zhanxun Dong (School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University))
In the case of the Milky Way at least, the major player in maintaining the warp is the dark matter halo that surrounds the disk and exerts a torque on it.
SpaceX sent Türkiye's first domestically produced communications satellite to orbit today (July 8). A Falcon 9 rocket launched the Turksat 6A spacecraft from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 7:30 p.m. EDT (2330 GMT). The Falcon 9's first stage came back to Earth shortly thereafter as planned. It touched down about 8.5 minutes after liftoff on SpaceX's Just Read the Instructions droneship, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
One of the best smart telescopes you can buy, despite it being one of the cheapest in its class. This is the telescope to go for if you want incredible views of the night sky at an entry-level price.
"Venus Prime" is a series of six sci-fi mystery novels by author Paul Preuss, based upon a number of short stories from the legendary Arthur C. Clarke. They center around a young woman with superhuman skills named Sparta and her quest for the reality of her origins while confronting a sinister cult called the Free Spirit. Each book uses one Clarke story as its source material.
New Ariane 6 rocket launching for 1st time this week | Space Quiz! What surface feature of the sun gives it a 'fuzzy' look? | This Week In Space: E118 - Understanding the Darkness
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Europe's new heavy-lift Ariane 6 rocket is set to make its long-delayed debut on Tuesday (July 9). If all goes according to plan, the Ariane 6 will launch from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on Tuesday during a four-hour window that opens at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT).
On Episode 118 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest co-host Isaac Arthur talk with Alina Kiessling and Jason Rhodes, both research scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, about the concepts of dark matter and dark energy and their broader implications for cosmology, exoplanet research, and more.
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With no fireworks allowed on the space station, NASA astronauts improvised with camera flashes to celebrate Independence Day. International Space Station (ISS) astronaut Matthew Dominick played around with "light painting" -- a long exposure in a dark room that illuminates a subject with a light source -- during Expedition 71's time off to celebrate the Fourth of July.
NASA's Goldstone planetary radar system recently recorded two near-Earth asteroids, 2024 MK and 2011 UL21, flying by our planet. Perhaps a tad alarming, one was only detected 13 days before it safely bypassed Earth, but scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California assure it never posed a threat. Still, the imagery they were able to collect has been extremely informative.
The next flight test of SpaceX's Starship could include a new milestone, according to a teaser included on a video of highlights from the rocket's fourth flight test.
"I'm standing so close to JAXA's Hayabusa2 asteroid lander that I could reach out and touch it. Instead, I jump on top of it. Then I strike a pose. When I leap off, I float for a moment in the low gravity before touching down gently on the surface of Ryugu, a craggy, gray world devoid of life and color."
