The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket a green light to return to flight. The Falcon 9 had been grounded since Sept. 28, when the rocket suffered an issue with its upper stage during the launch of the Crew-9 astronaut mission for NASA. (A Falcon 9 did launch Europe’s …
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A nearby alien planet is the first of its kind, new observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest. Located around 100 light-years away from Earth, the exoplanet is shrouded in a thick envelope of steam. This world, designated GJ 9827 d, is around twice the size of Earth, three times more massive than our …
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The U.S. military’s X-37B space plane is about to begin a series of novel maneuvers, according to a rare official update on the spacecraft. The robotic X-37B has been in a highly elliptical, undisclosed orbit for 10 months since launching on its seventh mission on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in late December last year. …
NASA’s Artemis 3 mission is slated to launch in September 2026, sending four astronauts to the moon’s south polar region. Those explorers — and their colleagues on subsequent Artemis missions — will carry out a number of research projects, gathering data that will help scientists better understand the origin, history and evolution of the moon. Part …
