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GREAT FALLS — The annual Perseids meteor shower peaked Tuesday night, but stargazers had the chance to see another incredible display in the sky early Wednesday morning around 5:15-5:20 a.m. Bright streaks resembling a shooting star moved from west to east across the night sky, but this was not actually related to the meteor shower. It was space junk re-entering …

In space, even breathing can become a mission challenge. A new analysis of nearly two decades of medical logs from 71 International Space Station (ISS) crew members finds that sinus and nasal issues are among the most common health complaints in orbit – affecting 85 percent of astronauts. Most dealt with at least one bout of congestion, and those who …

Harvard scientist Avi Loeb has proposed that researchers send a six-word message to a mysterious space object called 3I/ATLAS while we still have a chance. Loeb has been vocal about doing further research on 3I/ATLAS since it was first reported by the NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile on July 1, 2025. NASA has classified the object as …

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.  In 1969, the United States landed the first humans on the Moon.  In the years since, premier space companies from around the world have been drawn to launch rockets and satellites from the United States, …

PROMOTING COMMERCIAL SPACE INNOVATION: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to streamline regulations and foster a competitive commercial space industry, ensuring the United States maintains its leading role in the commercial use of space. The Order directs the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, to eliminate or expedite environmental …

Scientists often refer to the mesosphere as the “ignorosphere”—a region that’s too high for planes or weather balloons to explore, yet too low for satellites to probe. Despite our technological advances, we’ve yet to find a decent way to monitor this large stretch of air, which lies about 37 miles (60 kilometers) above the surface. But engineers are inching towards …

For about 15 years, a powerful radio telescope on planet Earth dutifully recorded data about a location in the cosmos billions of light-years away from us — and, at last, astronomers managed to stitch together those extensive observations to reveal a full picture of what this telescope has been looking at. It’s … the Eye of Sauron! Well, sort of. …

Astronomers spot something totally new in space  ChronView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

United Launch Alliance fired off its first operational Vulcan rocket Tuesday, boosting two military satellites into space in the first U.S. Space Force-sanctioned flight of a new launcher that eventually will replace the company’s Atlas 5 and already-retired Deltas. Equipped with four solid-fuel strap-on boosters for additional takeoff power, the 198-foot-tall Vulcan’s two methane-fueled BE-4 engines thundered to life at …