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Algeria and Italy Sign Space Cooperation Agreement

Italy and Algeria have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate peacefully in outer space exploration. The objective of the MOU is to “Establish a cooperation framework in the field of space exploration, Earth observation, space technologies and training, to implement projects...

Webb Telescope’s Coldest Instrument Reaches Operating Temperature

  With help from a cryocooler, the Mid-Infrared Instrument has dropped down to just a few degrees above the lowest temperature matter can reach and is ready for calibration. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will see the first galaxies to form after the big bang, but to do that its instruments...

40-Year Study Finds Mysterious Patterns in Temperatures at Jupiter

  Based partly on data from generations of NASA missions, including NASA’s Voyager and Cassini, the work could help scientists determine how to predict weather on Jupiter. Scientists have completed the longest-ever study tracking temperatures in Jupiter’s upper troposphere, the layer of the...

Planetary Defense Exercise Uses Apophis as Hazardous Asteroid Stand-In

      Over 100 participants from 18 countries – including NASA scientists and the agency’s NEOWISE mission – took part in the international exercise. Watching the skies for large asteroids that could pose a hazard to the Earth is a global endeavor. So, to test their operational...

Juno Spacecraft Recovering Memory After 47th Flyby of Jupiter

    UPDATED Jan. 10, 2023: Juno returned to nominal operations Dec. 29, 2022, after going into safe mode on Dec. 17 in response to the onboard computer memory anomaly that occurred during its Dec. 14 close pass of Jupiter. As expected, the majority of the science data collected during the...

United States and Japan sign Space cooperation framework Agreement

WASHINGTON — The United States and Japan signed an agreement Jan. 13 to enable further cooperation between the two countries in space exploration, but without announcing any new initiatives. During a brief ceremony at NASA Headquarters attended by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other...

Haunting Portrait: NASA’s Webb Reveals Dust, Structure in Pillars of Creation

      The observatory’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) provides a different view of the famous pillars, revealing young stars that have not yet cast off their dusty “cloaks.” This is not an ethereal landscape of time-forgotten tombs. Nor are these soot-tinged fingers reaching out...

NewSpace Africa Conference 2023 to hold in April 2023 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Space in Africa, in collaboration with the African Union Commission and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Côte d’Ivoire, is organising the second edition of the NewSpace Africa Conference, its second high-level conference gathering industry leaders, academia, national space...

Scientists have Identified Two New Minerals Found in a 15-ton Meteorite that Crashed in Africa.

In a news release by CNN, scientists have named two unprecedented minerals uncovered on earth in a 15.2-metric-ton meteorite found in a 70-gram piece of meteorite unearthed in Somalia in 2020. According to the University of Alberta, it is the ninth-largest meteorite to be discovered. The curator of...