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Less than three days before the Weizmann Institute of Science was struck by Iranian missiles, several dozen members of the Israeli space community gathered there for the first public presentation of a particularly unique and ambitious Israeli space mission: a plan to search for signs of life on one of Jupiter’s major moons — and possibly even venture further to …

Even after pouring $2 billion into its much-maligned Starliner spacecraft, NASA and Boeing remain committed to getting back off the ground. As Ars Technica reports, the head of NASA’s commercial crew program, Steve Stich, revealed last week that Boeing and its propulsion supplier, Aerojet Rocketdyne, are making considerable changes to the astronaut shuttle following a disastrous first crewed mission to …

Exoplanet is shrinking before the X-ray eyes of NASA’s Chandra spacecraft: ‘The future for this baby planet doesn’t look great’  SpaceView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

It’s been more than a year since Starliner’s failed test flight left a crew stranded in space, and Boeing’s spacecraft still isn’t ready to fly. In a recent update, NASA officials said they are working toward launching a mission aboard Starliner in 2026, and there probably won’t be any astronauts involved. During a press briefing last week, Steve Stich, NASA’s …

Astronomers have discovered that radiation emitted by a rapidly spinning neutron star, or “pulsar,” is dominated by the impact of its powerful particle winds — and not by the material it strips from a companion star. The pulsar in question is PSR J1023+0038 (J1023), which sits in a binary system located 4,500 light-years away from Earth. This binary consists of …

The scientific community was appalled by the news that president Donald Trump’s administration was looking to deal a devastating blow to NASA’s science budget. In its 2026 budget request, released last month, the White House announced it was looking to more cut funding for NASA’s science directorate by more than half, leading to overwhelming criticism from the scientific community, as …

The scientific community was appalled by the news that president Donald Trump’s administration was looking to deal a devastating blow to NASA’s science budget. In its 2026 budget request, released last month, the White House announced it was looking to more cut funding for NASA’s science directorate by more than half, leading to overwhelming criticism from the scientific community, as …