The infrared space telescope and Sun-centric missions will launch on a rideshare Falcon 9 flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Monday, March 10. Liftoff is set for 8:10 p.m. PST (11:10 p.m. EST, 0310 UTC). .
President Trump says a human mission to Mars is of interest to him but is not a “number one” priority, amid concerns about NASA budget cuts. The post Trump says Mars missions are of interest but not a top priority appeared first on SpaceNews..
HELSINKI — China launched the latest in a series classified satellites into geosynchronous transfer orbit Sunday while disclosing little about the spacecraft. A Long March 3B rocket lifted off at […] The post China expands secretive satellite series with launch of TJS-15 appeared first on SpaceNews..
Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week plus a day of March 9-16, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate […].
US Space Force X-37B Secert Spaceplane Returns to Earth After 434 Days in Space.
The White House and the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency have spent the first weeks of Donald Trump’s new administration looking to reduce the number of federal workers and […] The post Tracking DOGE’s impact on space and the federal workforce appeared first on SpaceNews..
SpaceX and NASA are set for the launch of the agency’s newest space telescope and… The post NASA, SpaceX to launch SPHEREx observatory and PUNCH heliophysics mission from California appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com..
A tiny fraction of the stellar nursery known as Sh2-284 is visible in this glittering, star-filled NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. This immense region of gas and dust is the birthing place of stars, which shine among the clouds. Bright clusters of newborn stars glow pink in infrared light, and clouds of gas and dust, […].
Arp 105 is a dazzling ongoing merger between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy drawn together by gravity, characterized by a long, drawn out tidal tail of stars and gas more than 362,000 light-years long. The immense tail, which extends beyond this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, was pulled from the two galaxies […].
Sweeping spiral arms extend from NGC 4536, littered with bright blue clusters of star formation and red clumps of hydrogen gas shining among dark lanes of dust. The galaxy’s shape may seem a little unusual, and that’s because it’s what’s known as an “intermediate galaxy”: not quite a barred spiral, but not exactly an unbarred […].