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Halley’s comet swings near Earth every 75 years. But debris left by the comet leads to two major meteor showers every year including the Eta Aquarids.This post was originally published on this site

Launched on March 11, NASA’s SPHEREx space observatory has spent the last six weeks undergoing checkouts, calibrations, and other activities to ensure it is working as it should. Now it’s mapping the entire sky—not just […]

An astronaut who missed out on the first all-female spacewalk because of a spacesuit sizing issue got her chance six years later on Thursday.This post was originally published on this site

How can nanosatellites help advance lunar exploration and settlement? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a team of researchers from Grahaa Space […]

Launched way back in 1972, Kosmos-482 is about to meet a fiery end.This post was originally published on this site

Communications with Mars explorers face unique challenges, including 4–24 minute signal delays and limited bandwidth that restricts data transmission. While NASA’s Deep Space Network currently manages these communications, future missions may be able to employ […]

Getting missions to land successfully on the moon has been difficult. Recent missions, such as IM-1 and IM-2, which the private company Intuitive Machines completed, have been qualified successes at best, with both landers settling […]

How do robots feel in space? This is both a practical and possibly an existential question. Still, today, we’ll focus on the practical side by looking at a review paper from Hadi Jahanshahi and Zheng […]

Three Chinese astronauts landed back on Earth on Wednesday after six months on China’s space station.This post was originally published on this site

New data from the agency’s Jovian orbiter sheds light on the fierce winds and cyclones of the gas giant’s northern reaches and volcanic action on its fiery moon.This post was originally published on this site