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A NASA space telescope is falling out of the sky, and to save it the agency skipped its own contractors and handed the job to a four-year-old startup that had never flow…

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has spent 21 years as astronomy's first responder, swinging toward exploding stars faster ...
BBC Sky at Night Magazine on MSN

An enormous explosion has occurred in deep space – and scientists caught it within minutes of the detonation

A 'game-changer' for observations of gamma-ray bursts ...

Space Force assesses damage after Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explosion

Space Force officials are assessing the aftermath of the massive Blue Origin rocket explosion at Cape Canaveral last week. Here's what we know.
Space.com on MSN

Astronomers may have heard the 1st 'whispers' of ghost particles created by supernova explosions

The universe is haunted by "cosmic ghosts" called neutrinos, which seem to be the "whispers" of stars that died in supernova ...

Debris cleared, reconstruction begins after Blue Origin launch pad explosion

Debris has been cleared from the massive explosion at Blue Origin’s launch site in Cape Canaveral and the company is now in ...
ScienceAlert on MSN

This Is How Nuclear Weapon Detection Could Work in Space

NASA visualization showing a cross-section of Earth's Van Allen radiation belts. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific ...
Ars Technica

NASA wants to know how the launch industry’s chic new rocket fuel explodes

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined kerosene was favored for its easy handling and non-toxicity, hydrazine for its ...
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OTD In Space - June 30: Explosion From Space Levels Miles of Forest

On June 30, 1908, a giant fireball exploded over the forests of Tunguska in Siberia. The impact leveled hundreds of miles of ...