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The next launch opportunity is on Wednesday, the agency said.June 1, 2024, 5:43 PM ET• 5 min readNASA again delayed its first astronaut-crewed flight into space on Boeing's Starliner, scrubbing Saturday afternoon's launch just minutes before it was due to begin.The space agency said the launch was scrubbed "due to the computer ground launch…

A robotic Russian cargo craft docked at the International Space Station on Saturday morning (June 1) to deliver tons of fresh supplies, just hours ahead of the planned launch of a Boeing Starliner spacecraft set to carry two astronauts to the station for the first time. The Roscosmos Progress 88 freighter linked up with the orbiting lab's Poisk…

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A field of sand dunes in the Martian springtime.NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We'll let other…

Metabolism is the “beating heart of the cell”. New research from ELSI retraces the history of metabolism from the primordial Earth to the modern day (left to right). The history of compound discovery over time (white line) is cyclic, almost resembling an EKG. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Francis Reddy/NASA/ESAA new study…

By Washington University in St. Louis May 25, 2024Research from Washington University in St. Louis reveals that the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, roughly the size of France, is dislocated daily by an ice stream. This movement, caused by a sudden slip in the ice stream, could influence icequakes and shelf fractures, raising concerns about ice…

What it is: Europa, Jupiter's fourth-largest moon.Where it is: About 417,000 miles (671,000 kilometers) from Jupiter and 500 million miles (805 million km) from the sun.When it was shared: May 19, 2024. Why it's so special: Slightly smaller than Earth's moon, Europa is more like a planet. It has a magnetic field, a tenuous oxygen atmosphere…

Two weeks ago, an epic display of auroras danced across the night sky from the United States to Jamaica to South Africa. Now, space scientists are saying the solar storm event was the most impressive in decades and, by some measures, even centuries.On May 10 and 11, an “extreme” geomagnetic storm — hitting the most severe level of intensity —…

Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket launches the NROL-146 mission from California this week. SpaceX Welcome to Edition 6.45 of the Rocket Report! The most interesting news in launch this week, to me, is that Firefly is potentially up for sale. That makes two of the handful of…

A mind-boggling number of shining galaxies, a purple and orange star nursery and a spiral galaxy similar to our Milky Way: new images were revealed from Europe's Euclid space telescope on Thursday.It is the second set of images released by the European Space Agency since Euclid launched last year on the first-ever mission to investigate the…