Astronomers image for the first time a black hole's shadow together with a powerful jet
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Scientists discover rare element in exoplanet's atmosphere
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Astronomers coming closer to understanding mysterious fast radio bursts
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Milky Way's fate? Astronomers reveal what ignites quasars
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Framework for Roman Spacecraft moves to Goddard clean room
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CGI to extend machine learning to LEO satellite network optimisation
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Fish and Wildlife Service documents damage from Starship launch
Thursday, 27 April 2023 01:53![](/plugins/content/jlexcomment/assets/icon.png)
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SpaceX’s Starship launch scattered debris over hundreds of acres and created a small brush fire, but did not kill any wildlife, according to a federal agency.
Framework for NASA's Roman spacecraft moves to Goddard clean room
Wednesday, 26 April 2023 20:20DoD weighing options to create ‘commercial space reserve’
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The Defense Department is considering ways to partner with commercial space companies so their services can be accessed during national security emergencies, DoD space policy chief John Plumb told lawmakers April 26.
SpaceShipTwo makes first flight in nearly two years
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Virgin Galactic’s suborbital spaceplane flew freely for the first time in nearly two years April 26 on a glide flight that prepares the company for powered flights and commercial service.
Research helps pave way for first manned mission to Mars
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Scientists have greater insight into the atmospheric conditions on Mars than ever before following an international research project involving the University of Huddersfield. The findings of the project will help them identify safe landing sites with increased accuracy, and further paves the way for the first manned mission to the red planet.
One of the researchers on the project is Dr. Thomas Smyth, a Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography within the Department of Biological and Geographical Sciences in the School of Applied Sciences.
Alongside researchers from Ulster University, California Institute for Technology (Caltech) and the University of Wisconsin Madison in the U.S., the research has discovered a more informed and realistic Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) microscale modeling method, which will provide more detailed insight into the surface wind forcing of aeolian transport patterns on Martian surfaces such as dunes.
Juice’s first taste of science from space
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China to hunt for Earth-like planets with formation-flying telescopes
Wednesday, 26 April 2023 12:53CryoSat reveals ice loss from glaciers
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When one thinks of the damage that climate change is doing, it’s probable that what comes to mind is a vision of huge lumps of ice dropping off one of the polar ice sheets and crashing into the ocean. While Greenland and Antarctica are losing masses of ice, so too are most of the glaciers around the world, but it’s tricky to measure how much ice they are shedding.
Thanks to ESA’s CryoSat satellite and a breakthrough way of using its data, scientists have discovered that glaciers worldwide have shrunk by a total of 2%
United States and South Korea agree to enhance space cooperation
Wednesday, 26 April 2023 11:18![](/plugins/content/jlexcomment/assets/icon.png)
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The United States and South Korea signed an agreement April 25 to enhance cooperation on space activities ranging from lunar exploration to Earth science, while providing few specific about those efforts.