Space

Beginning in 2018, one of the brightest X-ray lights in the sky went dark, and scientists still aren’t sure why. 

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The White House said the National Security Council from now on will issue “national security memorandums” to replace the former administration’s space policy directives.

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SpaceX will be launching an astrophysics mission into Earth’s orbit for NASA. 

A galaxy’s main business is star formation. And when they’re young, like youth everywhere, they keep themselves busy with it. But galaxies age, evolve, and experience a slow-down in their rate of star formation. Eventually, galaxies cease forming new stars altogether, and astronomers call that quenching. They’ve been studying quenching […]

A small fleet of spacecraft from the United Arab Emirates, China, and the United States will reach Mars this month after launching from Earth last year. The march to the Red Planet marks a marathon of firsts: it’s the UAE’s first foray into deep space, China’s first independent attempt to […]

China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft snapped its first image of Mars as the mission makes its final approach; the probe will enter orbit around the Red Planet in less than a week.