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Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping
By Robert Lea published
Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 years of mapping the Milky Way.
An ancient 3-star system give this 'blue lurker' a turbo boost, Hubble Space Telescope reveals
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
A massive white dwarf and a sun-like "blue lurker" star tell a remarkable story of what was once a triple-star system in the M67 cluster.
What's next for the 2 private landers SpaceX just launched toward the moon?
By Mike Wall published
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just launched lunar landers built by Firefly Aerospace and Tokyo-based company ispace. What's next for the two craft?
SpaceX launching Starship Flight 7 on Jan. 16: Watch it live
By Mike Wall published
SpaceX is set to launch the seventh test flight of its Starship megarocket on Thursday (Jan. 16) at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT), and you can watch the action live.
SpaceX launches 2 private lunar landers to the moon (video, photos)
By Josh Dinner published
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched lunar landers for Firefly Aerospace and the Japanese company ispace early this morning (Jan. 15).
Little house on the (moon) prairie: Artist's 'Moonhouse' set to lift off on lunar lander
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
The moon is about to gain its first tiny house. Launching on a Japanese lunar lander is the "Moonhouse," a project by Mikael Genberg 25 years in the making.
Here's what NASA is sending to the moon on Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander
By Josh Dinner published
NASA is sending a suite of science and technology demonstrations on Firefly Aerospace's Ghost Riders in the Sky mission to the surface of the moon.
What's flying to the moon on ispace's Resilience lunar lander?
By Andrew Jones published
Tokyo-based company ispace's Resilience lunar lander will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Wednesday (Jan. 15). Here's what the spacecraft is carrying.
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