Space
SpaceChinese astronauts return to Earth after 90-day mission
Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth Friday after completing the country's longest-ever crewed mission, the latest landmark in Beijing's drive to become a major space power
NASA halts SpaceX work on lunar lander after Blue Origin suit
NASA agreed on Thursday to temporarily halt work on a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract awarded to Elon Musk's SpaceX after rival billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin sued the US ...
Russia's Nauka science module docks with ISS
Russia said it successfully docked the Nauka laboratory module with the International Space Station on Thursday
NASA's Hubble space telescope returns to science operations
Hubble, which has been watching the universe over the past three decades, faced trouble with its payload computer on 13 June
Bezos and crewmates prepare for inaugural Blue Origin space flight
The suborbital launch from a site in the high desert plains of West Texas marks a crucial test for Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft, a 60-foot-tall (18.3 metre) and fully autonomous ...
NASA celebrates 100th birthday of first American to orbit the planet
The US space agency on Saturday celebrated the 100th birthday of astronaut John Glenn who changed the history of spaceflight, becoming the first American to orbit the planet
US approves Bezos’ Blue Origin license for human space travel
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin had received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to carry humans on the New Shepard rocket into space on 20 July
China launches new meteorological satellite
Fengyun-3E (FY-3E), was launched by a Long March-4C rocket at 7.28am (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Xinhua news agency reported
Extreme 'white dwarf' sets cosmic records for small size, huge mass
Scientists said on Wednesday this highly magnetised and rapidly rotating white dwarf is 35 per cent more massive than our sun yet boasts a petite diameter only a bit larger than Earth's moon
Life could exist in clouds of Jupiter, not Venus: Study
The search for life on our nearest neighbour has so far proved fruitless, although a 2020 paper rekindled hopes for Venus when it claimed to have detected phosphine gas–known to be produced by ...
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