SpaceX catches Super Heavy booster on Starship Flight 7 test but loses upper stage (video, photos)  - SpaceX pulled off a launch-tower catch of Starship's Super Heavy booster during a test flight today (Jan. 16) but lost the vehicle's upper stage.

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 NASA’s Pandora Set To Unveil the Secrets of Alien Atmospheres  - NASA’s upcoming Pandora mission, poised for launch later this year, promises to revolutionize our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres by studying at least 20 distant planets. With a dedicated spacecraft capable of long-duration observations, Pandora aims to provide critical data that will complement...

 Chunk of Moon Rock? NASA Tracks Asteroid 2024 PT5 During Close Earth Flyby  - In January 2025, NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar is closely tracking asteroid 2024 PT5 during its nearest approach to Earth, a distance still five times farther than the Moon. First spotted in August 2024 by the University of Hawaiʻi’s ATLAS telescope, this small, 33-foot-wide asteroid has been...

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 Hubble Telescope sees rare supernova explosion as a violent 'pale blue dot' (image)  - The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about 650 million light-years away from Earth.

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 Stoke Space Announces $260 Million in New Investment  - January 15, 2025 — Stoke Space, the rocket company building the world’s first 100% reusable medium-lift rocket, announced today that it has raised $260 million in new Series C investment to drive continued growth and innovation.... The post Stoke Space Announces $260 Million in New Investment appeared...

 Liftoff! SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Sends Blue Ghost Lunar Lander on Historic Journey  - Blue Ghost’s Moon mission, launched by SpaceX, is set to revolutionize lunar exploration and offer Earth valuable lessons from space. At 1:11 a.m. EST on January 15, SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander. The launch took place at Launch Complex 39A...

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 44 Hidden Stars Revealed: Gravitational Lensing Unlocks the Secrets of the Dragon Arc  - In an astronomical feat, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers observed a distant galaxy, uncovering 44 individual stars 6.5 billion light-years away. This discovery, enabled by gravitational lensing, sets a new record for observing distant stars and opens new avenues for understanding...

 Newfound Galaxy Class May Indicate Early Black Hole Growth, Webb Finds  - Scientists compile large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

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 Aerospace Latin America: A History  - 2025 Seminar Series Throughout 2025, the NASA History Office is presenting a seminar series on the topic of Aerospace Latin America. This series will explore the origins, evolution, and historical context of aerospace in the region since the dawn of…

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 What if life on Venus is just life from Earth?  - Scientists think it's possible that life cells from Earth could've been transferred to Venus, thanks to asteroid impacts over the last few billion years.

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 Rocket Lab’s Second Reentry Class Spacecraft for Varda Operating on Orbit Supporting Payloads for Air Force Research Lab and NASA

 BlackSky wins 1-year extension for EOCL contract with the NRO

 NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble’s Discovery of a New Universe  - For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don’t go looking for it — the flickering star is 2.2 million light-years away, and is 1/100,000th the…

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 ispace Completes Success 3 of Mission 2 Milestones

 Saturn disappears behind the moon in stunning telescope photo  - A composition photo of images taken during the lunar occultation on Jan. 4 captures the progression of the moon moving in front of Saturn, briefly hiding it from viewers on Earth.

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 ispace Completes Success 2 of Mission 2 Milestones

 Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Poster  - NASA’s Roman Coronagraph Instrument will greatly advance our ability to directly image exoplanets, or planets and disks around other stars. The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, a technology demonstration designed and built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will fly aboard NASA’s next…

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 Here's what NASA is sending to the moon on Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander  - NASA is sending a suite of science and technology demonstrations on Firefly Aerospace's Ghost Riders in the Sky mission to the surface of the moon.

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 Moon selected as historical preservation site to protect lunar heritage  - The World Monuments Fund has added the moon to its watch list of 25 historic places that face major challenges and has called for preserving lunar heritage.

 Sierra Space’s Resilient GPS Satellite Program Reaches Key Milestone  - Successful Completion of Systems Requirements Review of R-GPS Program Reflects Progress of Sierra Space Defense Technology LOUISVILLE, Colo. – January 16, 2025 – Sierra Space,… Continue Reading Sierra Space’s Resilient GPS Satellite Program Reaches Key Milestone

 How Pluto and Charon Were Born From a Giant Collision  - Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, highlighting potential geologic activity and an ocean beneath Pluto’s icy façade. A NASA postdoctoral researcher at Southwest Research Institute has developed advanced models suggesting...

 Cosmic Titans Born From Chaos: How Star Collisions Forged the Universe’s First Supermassive Black Holes  - Recent discoveries by the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that supermassive black holes were present much earlier than previously thought, posing significant questions about their origins and growth. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed that supermassive black holes (SMBHs), with masses...

 NanoAvionics-built groundbreaking methane gas monitoring and thermal imaging satellites successfuly launched with Transporter-12

 Thales adopts the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles

 Liftoff! NASA Sends Science, Tech to Moon on Firefly, SpaceX Flight  - A suite of NASA scientific investigations and technology demonstrations is on its way to our nearest celestial neighbor aboard a commercial spacecraft, where they will provide insights into the Moon’s environment and test technologies to support future astronauts landing safely…

 Best of 2024: Dinosaur Prepared to Safely Watch Solar Eclipse  - An adult Alamosaurus sports eclipse glasses outside of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, on April 6, 2024. Two days later, the total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the…

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