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NASA’s DART impact permanently changed the shape and orbit of asteroid moon, new study shows
An illustration depicting NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos…
NASA’s EXCITE mission prepared for scientific balloon flight
EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) hangs from a ceiling at the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility’s location…
Professor proposes how a black hole in orbit around a planet could be a sign of an advanced civilization
Ray traced shadow of a spinning and charged black hole. Credit: Simon Tyran, CC BY-SA 4.0…
Citizen science project identifies 20 new astronomical discoveries
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A citizen science project, which invites members of the public to take…
Astrobiologist explores likelihood of life originating on Earth
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Florida Tech astrobiologist Manasvi Lingam has asked life’s biggest questions from a…
NASA will decide Saturday if Boeing’s new capsule is safe enough to fly 2 astronauts back from space
This photo provided by NASA shows Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft which launched astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni…
Lessons from industry can inform satellite and spacecraft management in orbit
Most space mission systems historically have used one spacecraft designed to complete an entire mission independently.…
Debris from DART could hit Earth and Mars within a decade, say scientists
The asteroid Dimorphos was captured by NASA’s DART mission just two seconds before the spacecraft struck…
Astrophysical simulations predict new detectable gravitational wave source from collapsing stars
After the death of a massive, spinning star, a disk of material forms around the central…