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Virgin Orbit Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: VORB) shares are trading higher by 6.8% at $8.42 Thursday afternoon after the company announced it has been selected by NASA to provide launch services through the VADR contract.

Benzinga

NASA's new plan to stop 'doomsday' asteroid that could wipe out Earth and human race

NASA has its eye on over 28,000 'near-Earth' asteroids with thousands more discovered every single year.

Daily Record

94 years ago, an engineer invented space station design — and inspired a sci-fi classic

Czech engineer Herman Potočnik “Noordung” helped inspire everything from '2001: A Space Odyseey' to the International Space Station.

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Three, Two, One: Astronomers Predict SpaceX Space Junk Will Hit the Moon

A chunk of a SpaceX rocket that blasted off seven years ago and was abandoned in space after completing its mission will crash into the Moon in March, experts say. The rocket was deployed in 2015 to put into orbit a NASA satellite called the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR).…

Asharq Al-Awsat

NASA finds startling new evidence for recent water flow on Mars

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found evidence that suggests Mars had liquid water for about a billion years longer than scientists previously thought.

Inverse

3,2,1: astronomers predict SpaceX space junk will hit the Moon

WASHINGTON: A chunk of a SpaceX rocket that blasted off seven years ago and was abandoned in space after completing its mission will crash into the Moon in March, experts say.

Bangkok Post

Webb telescope reaches its home in space

The massive observatory successfully arrived at its home in space this week

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Saturn: Everything you need to know about the sixth planet from the sun

Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and the second-largest planet in the solar system. We explore this gas giant in more detail here.

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Sonic booms to sonic 'thumps' - NASA's feeling supersonic about faster-than-sound plane

Project to turn sonic booms into sonic 'thumps'

Wales Online

NASA: Tonga Volcano Hundreds of Times Stronger than Hiroshima

The Tonga volcanic eruption unleashed explosive forces that dwarfed the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, NASA scientists have said, as survivors on January 15 described how the devastating blast "messed up our brains,” Agence France Press (AFP) reported. The NASA Earth Observatory said the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano spewed…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Tonga volcano ‘hundreds of times’ more powerful than Hiroshima bomb explosion, NASA says

The undersea volcano that erupted off the coast of Tonga this month was “hundreds of times” more powerful than the nuclear bomb that hit Hiroshima in World War II, according to NASA.

Tribune News Service

Look: Jaw-dropping image shows the Webb telescope 1 million miles from Earth

The James Webb Space Telescope has reached the L2 point, and its position has been captured in a new photo. It will now spend six months preparing for its mission.

Inverse

Why SpaceX crashing into the Moon could actually be good for science

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket back in 2015, and its second stage is on course to hit the Moon. The DSCOVR craft stage could send up lunar regolith.

Inverse

Webb Telescope Reaches Final Destination, a Million Miles from Earth

The James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its cosmic parking spot a million miles away, bringing it a step closer to its mission to unravel the mysteries of the Universe, NASA said Monday. At around 2:00 pm Eastern Time (1900 GMT), the observatory fired its thrusters for five minutes…

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James Webb Space Telescope reaches its final destination — 1 million miles from Earth

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has settled into its orbit around the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2.

Reuters

NASA's new space telescope reaches destination in solar orbit

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, designed to give the world an unprecedented glimpse of infant galaxies in the early stages of the universe, arrived at its gravitational parking spot in orbit around the sun on Monday, nearly a million miles from Earth.

Inverse

NASA reveals new science mission timeline for the James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Sapce Telescope has enough fuel to last more than 20 years after using up just 32 percent of the fuel allocated for launch. This extends the mission timeline by four times.

The Conversation

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has reached its destination, 1.5 million km from Earth. Here's what happens next

Since its launch on Christmas day, astronomers have eagerly followed the complex deployment and unfurling of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – the largest to ever take to the skies.

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Rocket Lab Venus mission: Launch date and plans for ambitious exploration

Forget Mars: Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck has an ambitious plan to visit Venus to look for life and possibly phosphine. Here's what he plans to do.

Daily Record

NASA warns 'hazardous' asteroid twice size of Big Ben heading towards Earth today

The large space rock is considered a 'near Earth object' due to the close approach it will make with our planet.

Asharq Al-Awsat

NASA’s New Space Telescope Nears Destination in Solar Orbit

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, designed to give the world an unprecedented glimpse into the earliest stages of the universe, neared its gravitational parking space on Monday in orbit around the sun, almost 1 million miles from Earth. With a final course-correcting maneuver by on-board rocket thrusters set for 2…

Inverse

How a key Webb Telescope target could finally answer why we are here

The TRAPPIST-1 system is strangely similar and yet very different to our own Solar System. Here's why the James Webb Space Telescope will study the system in detail.

Daily Mirror

Space helicopter grounded on Mars for first time in history as dust cloud covers planet

NASA was forced to ground the 19th flight of its Ingenuity helicopter when a massive dust cloud stretched across the northern and southern hemispheres of the red planet

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Egyptian Researcher Spends 2 Days in -50 Degrees In the South Pole

The Egyptian Graduate Research Assistant at the Caltech Institute, Ahmed Soliman, spent two days inside a tent in -50 degrees weather in the South Pole. Soliman is also a research assistant at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He has been in the South Pole for the last four months as…

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