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A consortium of nearly every major European satellite company announced Tuesday that it plans to bid for a proposed satellite constellation to provide global communications.Essentially, such a constellation would provide the European Union with connectivity from low-Earth orbit similar to what SpaceX's Starlink offers.

Less than two years ago, China took a small but significant step in its goal of becoming a space power.For the first time, the Asian giant sent a robotic spaceship to Oceanus Procellarum (Latin for Ocean of Storms), a vast lunar mare that looks like a huge dark spot from Earth.According to the China National Space Administration, it is the youngest terrain on the Moon.

Tiny glass beads strewn across the moon's surface contain potentially billions of tonnes of water that could be extracted and used by astronauts on future lunar missions, researchers say.The discovery is thought to be one of the most important breakthroughs yet for space agencies that have set their sights on building bases on the moon, as it means there could be a highly accessible source of not only water but also hydrogen and oxygen.

A panel of women astronomers debuted a gorgeous view of the Universe when they started NASA's Tuesday keynote panel at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference.They unveiled the latest dazzling sight of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a star about to go supernova whose light took about 15,000 years to reach us.

As more robots and people travel to the moon in coming years, some researchers believe it's time to set a lunar time standard.NASA Johnson As U.S. clocks shift forward this weekend, many earthlings will find themselves momentarily confused about what time it is.But scientists say a far larger temporal problem is looming on the horizon: With multiple missions to the moon in the planning phase, it's time to set a Lunar time standard.

Asteroid 2023 DW will make a close approach to Earth on Feb. 14, 2046.NASA and other agencies are closely monitoring the asteroid to learn more about its projected path.NASA The asteroid 2023 DW was just discovered in late February.But NASA says it's tracking it closely to learn about its orbital path, because the asteroid "has a very small chance of impacting Earth" in 23 years.

Spin Kick
Last year, NASA rammed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into a tiny moonlet called Dimorphos, demonstrating a promising way to redirect a potential incoming killer asteroid to save life on Earth.Now, given the huge amount of scrutiny following the collision, scientists have made another surprising discovery: Dimorphos' much larger companion Didymos is spinning so fast, they say, that it's capable of shooting pieces of rubble into space, a puzzling conclusion that highlights the fact that asteroids aren't necessarily the inert lumps of rock they're often thought of, Scientific American reports.

An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will travel harmlessly between Earth and the moon's orbit this weekend, missing both celestial bodies.aturday's close encounter will offer astronomers the chance to study a space rock from just over 100,000 miles away.That is less than half the distance from here to the moon, making it visible through binoculars and small telescopes.

Stone Tools
If you're hoping for NASA's most advanced Mars rovers to detect life on the Red Planet, you'll probably have to hold out until some samples make it back to Earth.Take a new study, published in the journal Nature Communications, that had researchers investigate the capabilities of instruments used on Mars rovers by putting them through the wringer right here on Earth - with eyebrow-raising conclusions.

This image provided by NASA and the European Space Agency shows images of six candidate massive galaxies, seen 500-800 million years after the Big Bang.AP Astronomers have discovered what appear to be massive galaxies dating back to within 600 million years of the Big Bang, suggesting the early universe may have had a stellar fast-track that produced these monsters.

Sar2667 fell near the English Channel last night - and left a spectacular sight for stargazers



Anyone who happened to be up at 3am last night and looking up at the night sky might well have witnessed an exceptionally strange (and totally dazzling) sight indeed.An asteroid crashed into the earth and exploded mid-air, with the results being visible in areas of south England, Wales and northern France.

An asteroid illuminated the night sky over the English Channel on Feb. 13, as seen in Twitter videos taken in different cities across the south of England.(Video: Twitter @KadeFlowers/@fc_kova via Reuters)
An asteroid entered the Earth's atmosphere and burned up over the English Channel early Monday, in a colorful display captured by many residents under its path.

Scientists are finally publishing all the details of what happened when a NASA spacecraft smashed into an asteroid to try to push it off course in September of 2022.MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Last September, NASA made history by knocking an asteroid off course.A mission called DART crashed a spacecraft the size of a golf cart into an asteroid the size of the Great Pyramid in Egypt.

This imagery from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the debris blasted from the surface of Dimorphos 285 hours after NASA's DART spacecraft smashed into the asteroid's surface.NASA/ESA/STScI/Hubble Astronomers are still watching that asteroid that NASA whacked with a spacecraft back in September, in the first-ever test of whether an asteroid could be deliberately pushed off-course.

Design studio PriestmanGoode has collaborated with startup Skyted on a mask that uses jet-engine technology to absorb the wearer's voice so they can make calls in public without being overheard.The prototype mask, which was unveiled at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show ( CES), is designed to absorb up to 80 per cent of voice sounds.

Not a lot of people have heard of Spaceport Cornwall in the U.K., but last night more than 2,000 paying ticket holders showed up there to watch what was supposed to be the first orbital space launch from British soil.The payload: nine different satellites from both the military and the private sector.

A rock two-feet-wide last week hurtled toward Earth at 27,000 miles per hour - and exploded with an energy equivalent to eight tons of TNT into pieces that rained over McAllen, Texas.(That's 0.6 metres wide and 43,000 km per hour for you metric folks)
America's National Weather Service said a Geostationary Lightning Mapper instrument aboard one of its satellites detected a bright flash at around 17​​23 CST (2323 UTC) on February 15 over Southern Texas.

Astronomers found several candidates for hefty galaxies in the early Universe, including one with a possible stellar mass equivalent to 1 billion times that of the Sun.They appeared to the team as bright red "pinpricks" in a patch of sky the size of a marker dot drawn on a thumb held out at arm's length.

An asteroid has lit up the sky over the Channel in the early morning after scientists accurately predicted its strike only the seventh time that has happened.The European Space Agency said on Sunday night that the 1-metre-sized object would enter Earth's atmosphere and strike the surface around the French city of Rouen.

The skies of Britain and Ireland were painted in green, purple and deep red Sunday night, as the spectacular auroras, typical of remote latitudes, became visible as south as Kent or Cornwall.Some Britons managed to get a glimpse of the colorful glow of the northern lights from their homes, something that usually requires long travels and overnight camping in ice-covered strips of Greenland or Iceland, or the northern parts of Scandinavia.

What time is it on the moon?Since the dawn of the space age, the answer has been: It depends.For decades, lunar missions have operated on the time of the country that launched them.But with several lunar explorations heading for the launchpad, the European Space Agency has deemed the current system unsustainable.

Scientists have been given an unprecedented glimpse into the birth of stars and the early stages of the universe, after a new image was released by the James Webb space telescope.The image shows a young cluster of stars, known as NGC 346, which is more than 200,000 light years from Earth.Scientists have taken a particular interest in the cluster, which is in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), because it resembles the conditions of the early universe when star formation was at its peak.

ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs.Scientists have discovered six galaxies in the early universe that are so incomprehensibly massive that they pose a challenge to our basic understanding of the cosmos, reports a new study.The primordial galaxies existed just 500 to 700 million years after the Big Bang, yet they have masses that approach 100 billion times that of the Sun, making them almost as hefty as the modern Milky Way.

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.Recent telescope data revealed that a small planet in the far reaches of our solar system has a dense ring round it.And scientists are baffled as to why.The planet, Quaoar, is one of roughly 3,000 small planets that orbit the sun beyond Neptune, and at 690 miles (1,110-kilometers) wide, it's about the seventh largest, with Pluto and Eris ranking as the biggest.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the total count at a record-breaking 92.That's more than any other planet in our solar system.Saturn, the one-time leader, comes in a close second with 83 confirmed moons.The Jupiter moons were added recently to a list kept by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center, said Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution, who was part of the team.

NASA has released another image taken from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST); of course, it's another magical beauty.The latest image explores "one of the most dynamic star-forming regions in nearby galaxies," and the observations made by the telescope are another advancement for astronomers - and another incredible image for us to gaze at.

NASA got its giant Space Launch System off the ground for the first time in 2022, lighting up the night in Florida with an incredible stream of flame as it carried the Artemis I mission toward the moon.That shifted attention to SpaceX, which is building a next generation rocket, Starship, that is also central to NASA's crewed Artemis III moon landing attempt.

NASA got its giant Space Launch System off the ground for the first time in 2022, lighting up the night in Florida with an incredible stream of flame as it carried the Artemis I mission toward the moon.That shifted attention to SpaceX, which is building a next generation rocket, Starship, that is also central to NASA's crewed Artemis III moon landing attempt.