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SpaceX is set to launch its first-ever mission for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) today (Nov. 18). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying ISRO’s GSAT-N2 communications satellite is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today during a two-hour window that opens at 1:31 p.m. EST (1831 GMT). If it goes at […]
The cosmos may feel totally inaccessible to the average human, that reminder of an infinite expanse that looks cool to everyone but can only be understood by solitary geniuses. Julia Roman-Duval sees outer space differently. The astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the Johns Hopkins– and Hampden-headquartered operations center for NASA’s top telescopes, […]
Mars has continued its eastward progression, crossing from Gemini, the twins, into Cancer, the crab. On the night of 20 November, it will be joined in the night sky by a waxing gibbous moon. The chart shows the view looking east from London at 23.00 GMT. As the night progresses into the early hours of […]
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“To look at the Earth from space is a bit like a child looking into a mirror and realising for the first time that the person in the mirror is herself. What we do to the Earth we do to ourselves,” the novelist and winner of this year’s Booker prize, Samantha Harvey, said in her […]
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A simulated extraterrestrial message sent from Mars to Earth in 2023 was decoded in June by Ken Chaffin and his daughter, Keli Chaffin, through nearly a year of persistent efforts. Created as part of “A Sign in Space” project by the SETI Institute, the message displays five formations of amino acids, though its meaning remains […]
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