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Monday Night Football in Week 4 of the 2025 NFL season was a double-header, with one game being played in Denver and the other being held in South Beach. The first saw the Miami Dolphins get their first win of the season with a 27-21 victory over the still-winless New York Jets, while in Colorado, the Broncos comfortably beat the …

Wind speeds on Mars are high enough to blow fleets of large spherical rovers that resemble tumbleweed across the Red Planet’s surface, according to new wind-tunnel tests of small prototypes conducted by an international consortium of young scientists. “We now have experimental validation that tumbleweed rovers could indeed operate and collect scientific data on Mars,” James Kingsnorth of the Delft …

IN A NUTSHELL 🪐 The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is speeding through our solar system, intriguing astronomers with its rapid approach. ☀️ A coronal mass ejection from the Sun recently collided with 3I/ATLAS, leading to speculation about its effects. 🔭 Observations reveal a higher carbon dioxide to water ratio, adding mystery to 3I/ATLAS’s composition and origins. 🔍 Scientists are eager to …

What NASA’s discovery of possible life on Mars means for Musk’s ambitions  The Hill Opinion – What NASA’s discovery of possible life on Mars means for Musk’s ambitions  Yahoo New research shows Mars’ Jezero crater was repeatedly habitable  EarthSky Chad Pozarycki  SpaceNews Mars Had Multiple Episodes of Hability, Says New Research  Universe Today Source link

Lauren Edgar has spent nearly two decades at NASA studying the moon and Mars, guiding rover missions and helping design lunar science for the Artemis program. Now, she’s trading her role behind the console for a shot at flying to space herself. Edgar is one of the 10 people in NASA’s 2025 astronaut class, which was announced this week at …

Mars’ atmosphere has been of interest to scientists for decades, especially as humanity looks to set up outposts on the Red Planet. Recently, the European Space Agency‘s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter gave us a more detailed look at the thin shell of air that sits above the limb of Mars What is it? Creating a composite photograph of the images …

‘If there is a space race, China’s already winning it’: NASA unlikely to bring Mars samples back to Earth before China does, experts say  Live Science Source link

Preparations for the second-ever launch of Blue Origin’s powerful New Glenn rocket are underway on Florida’s Space Coast, as NASA’s twin ESCAPADE probes await their mission to Mars. Blue Origin had originally targeted no earlier than Sept. 29 for the second New Glenn launch, designated NG-2, but now says the mission is slated for NET mid-October. The rocket’s ESCAPADE payload …

A pair of spacecraft have arrived in Florida ahead of their launch on a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket and a voyage to the Red Planet. Launch and space systems company Rocket Lab delivered the twin ESCAPADE (“Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers”) spacecraft to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Monday (Sept. 22). The twin probes, named Blue and …

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Sep 23 – Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) shares slipped about 3% even as the company delivered two spacecraft to NASA for its upcoming Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) mission. The twin spacecraft, named Blue and Gold, arrived at Kennedy Space Center, where Rocket Lab engineers will handle inspections, functional testing, and final …