US company Firefly Aerospace said Tuesday it is aiming to launch a lander to the moon next week under an experimental NASA program that partners with the commercial sector to reduce costs.

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NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to $11 billion.

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In the next few decades, crewed missions to the moon and Mars will likely become frequent. One of the main challenges faced by these future missions will be the need to protect astronauts from the intense radiation of outer space.

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A study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, introduces a newly defined “filament channel” function. This new function provides a novel theoretical foundation for predicting solar eruptions by determining whether new emerging flux (NEF) can trigger instability in solar filaments. The study was led by Prof. Lin Jun from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese […]

SpaceX sent up the second launch of the year from the Space Coast on Monday afternoon.

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin will launch its first orbital rocket “no earlier than Friday”, it said, a pivotal moment in the commercial space race currently dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

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Getting a spacecraft to another star is a monumental challenge. However, that doesn’t stop people from working on it. The most visible groups currently doing so are Breakthrough Starshot and the Tau Zero Foundation, both of whom focus on a very particular type of propulsion-beamed power.

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At the start of this new year, we look back at close-up pictures and solar flare data recorded by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission over the last three years. See and hear for yourself how the number of flares and their intensity increase, a clear sign of the sun approaching the peak of the 11-year […]