Astronomers Capture First-Ever Photo of a Baby Planet Being Born in Darkness  - Astronomers have captured something extraordinary: the first-ever direct photo of a baby planet growing inside a dusty ring around a young star. Using cutting-edge adaptive optics, the team detected the glowing hydrogen gas streaming onto the infant world, essentially catching it mid-birth. First Detection...

 SpaceX fires up Starship spacecraft ahead of 11th test flight (video)  - SpaceX performed a full-duration static fire test with its latest Starship spacecraft recently to help gear up for the 11th test flight of the massive rocket.

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 ThinKom and KSAT Partner on New Earth Observation Ground Station Solution  - Hawthorne, CA and Tromsø, Norway – 23rd September 2025 - ThinKom Solutions Inc. (ThinKom) and KSAT have partnered to develop an innovative and commercially viable receive-only ground station, with…

 From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II  - By Jill Dunbar Of the many roads leading to successful Artemis missions, one is paved with high-tech computing chips called superchips. Along the way, a partnership between NASA wind tunnel engineers, data visualization scientists, and software developers verified a quick,…

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 See the moon 'bite' the sun in 1st photos of September 2025 partial solar eclipse  - Witness the first images of the September 2025 partial solar eclipse.

 Curiosity Blog, Sols 4661-4667: Peaking Into the Hollows  - By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 19, 2025 Curiosity is currently driving along the ridges of a very uneven terrain. One of the bigger ridges we nicknamed “Autobahn,”…

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 Saltzman: maintaining US lead in space demands faster, more focused capability delivery  - Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman delivers his keynote address at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference.

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 NOAA GOES-19 satellite captures partial eclipse | Space photo of the day for Sept. 23, 2025  - September's partial solar eclipse was not just caught by eager skywatchers on Earth but also by satellites orbiting high above.

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 Meink stresses innovation, focus, funding to maintain air, space superiority  - Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink delivers his keynote address at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference.

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 Arianespace announces the retirement of Wiener Kernisan; Amer Khouri named president of Arianespace, Inc.

 The Hunt for Dark Matter Has a New, Surprising Target  - Superheavy charged gravitinos may be the long-sought answer to dark matter. Dark Matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in fundamental physics. Many theoretical proposals (axions, WIMPs) and 40 years of extensive experimental search have not explained what Dark Matter is. Several years ago, a theory...

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 Russian 'Noah's Ark' probe carrying 75 mice and 1,500 flies lands back on Earth  - A Russian biological research satellite toting more than 30 experiments landed on Sept. 19 in the steppes of the Orenburg region after spending 30 days in Earth orbit.

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 NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX Spacecraft to Slingshot Past Earth  - At 12:56 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 23, NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Apophis Explorer) spacecraft will fly within about 2,100 miles (3,400 kilometers) of Earth. Passing about 100 times closer to Earth than the…

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 Rocket Lab’s Two Mars-Bound Spacecraft Arrive in Florida Ahead of Launch

 NASA satellites track Pacific tsunami in real time after massive Russian earthquake  - A massive earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in late July triggered a tsunami that rippled across the Pacific — and NASA’s experimental detection system tracked the event in real time by monitoring the atmosphere above.

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 SpaceX launches 11th batch of 'proliferated architecture' US spy satellites (video)  - SpaceX launched the latest set of "proliferated architecture" spy satellites for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office today (Sept. 22), sending them up from California's central coast.

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 Webb Telescope Spots Possible Signs of Atmosphere on “Goldilocks” Exoplanet  - JWST data hints that Trappist-1e may have an atmosphere. More transits will test if this world could support liquid water. Recent observations with NASA’s advanced JWST telescope have revealed a planet located 41 light-years from Earth that may possess an atmosphere. This planet orbits within the “habitable...

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