Space.com
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- What's that smell? Astronomers discover a stinky new clue in the search for alien lifeon 21st February 2025 at 11:00 pm
Astronomers have discovered that sulfur may be a key to helping us narrow down our search for life on other planets.
- Einstein wins again! Quarks obey relativity laws, Large Hadron Collider findson 21st February 2025 at 10:00 pm
Do top quarks, nature's heaviest elementary particle, obey Einstein's rules at all times of day and night? Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have the answer.
- Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin targeting Feb. 25 for 10th space tourism launchby mwall@space.com (Mike Wall) on 21st February 2025 at 9:00 pm
Blue Origin is targeting next Tuesday (Feb. 25) for its 10th space tourism launch, which will send six people to the final frontier. You'll be able to watch the action live.
- Paralympian John McFall could become 1st astronaut with a disability on ISSby jdinner@space.com (Josh Dinner) on 21st February 2025 at 7:25 pm
European Space Agency astronaut John McFall is cleared to be the first person with a physical disability to fly to the space station.
- Boost for alien hunters? Earth life may not be so improbable, study suggestson 21st February 2025 at 6:00 pm
The idea that life on Earth arose through a series of improbable "hard" evolutionary steps may be misjudged, according to a new paper that says our Earth had a big say in matters.
NASA.com
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- NASA Awards Planetary Defense Space Telescope Launch Services Contractby Tiernan P. Doyle on 21st February 2025 at 10:35 pm
NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide launch services for the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, which will detect and observe asteroids and comets that could potentially pose an impact threat to Earth. The firm fixed price launch service task order is being awarded under the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity NASA Launch Services II
- NASA Awards Delivery Order for NOAA’s Space Weather Programby Tiernan P. Doyle on 21st February 2025 at 9:32 pm
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has awarded a delivery order to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. of Boulder, Colorado, to build spacecraft for the Lagrange 1 Series project as a part of NOAA’s Space Weather Next program. The award made under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV contract,
- Hubble Captures a Cosmic Cloudscapeby Monika Luabeya on 21st February 2025 at 8:36 pm
The universe is a dusty place, as this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image featuring swirling clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula reveals. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa, the Tarantula Nebula is the most productive star-forming region in the nearby universe, home to the
Image of the Day
- Hubble Captures a Cosmic Cloudscapeon 21st February 2025 at 8:37 pm
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away.
Space Station News
- NASA Sends Experiment to Space to Study Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteriaby Tara Friesen on 19th February 2025 at 8:01 pm
In an effort to learn more about astronaut health and the effects of space on the human body, NASA is conducting a new experiment aboard the International Space Station to speed up the detection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, thus improving the health safety not only of astronauts but patients back on Earth. Infections caused by antibiotic-resistant
- NASA Sets Briefings for Next International Space Station Crew Missionsby Tiernan P. Doyle on 18th February 2025 at 8:44 pm
Editor’s note: NASA is rescheduling its upcoming Expedition 73 mission overview briefing and crew news conference originally planned on Monday, Feb. 24. The mission overview briefing now is anticipated to follow NASA’s Crew-10 flight readiness review on Friday, March 7, and the crew news conference will follow the arrival of Crew-10 to the agency’s Kennedy
- 2024 Annual Highlights of Results from the International Space Station Scienceby Roger Weiss on 18th February 2025 at 3:15 pm
The 2024 Annual Highlights of Results from the International Space Station is now available. This new edition contains updated bibliometric analyses, a list of all the publications documented in fiscal year 2024, and synopses of the most recent and recognized scientific findings from investigations conducted on the space station. These investigations are sponsored by NASA and all
Astronomy Now
Below are some stories from Astronomy News from the Astronomy Now website
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 21 – March 2by Alan MacRobert on 21st February 2025 at 9:41 am
Venus, after standing alone, is joined by the crescent Moon and low little Mercury in twilight late this week. Higher in the night, Jupiter and Mars continue in their distinctive triangles. The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 21 – March 2 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
- Euclid Discovers Einstein Ring Around Nearby Galaxyby Ananya Palivela on 20th February 2025 at 8:00 pm
The Euclid space telescope has uncovered an "Einstein ring" in an unexpected place — a nondescript galaxy we've known for more than a century. The post Euclid Discovers Einstein Ring Around Nearby Galaxy appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Night Sky News from Astronomy Now
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 21 – March 2by Alan MacRobert on 21st February 2025 at 9:41 am
Venus, after standing alone, is joined by the crescent Moon and low little Mercury in twilight late this week. Higher in the night, Jupiter and Mars continue in their distinctive triangles. The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 21 – March 2 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 14 – 23by Alan MacRobert on 14th February 2025 at 10:12 am
Jupiter makes a triangle with Aldebaran and the Pleiades. Mars makes a nicer triangle with Pollux and Castor. The pre-dawn Moon hangs with Spica, then Antares. The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 14 – 23 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.