Teghaza 001, found in the Sahara in 2022, is among the three oldest Martian meteorites and shows early Mars had a more dynamic water cycle, NASA-funded researchers report.
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- NOV13Planet paradeMercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter before dawn, until Dec 4
- NOV16Mars and Jupiter meetAbout 1 degree apart in the morning sky
- NOV16-17Leonid meteor showerPeak night
- NOV20Mercury’s best morning viewFarthest from the Sun in our sky (20°): look before sunrise
- NOV24Full Moon: Beaver MoonRises at sunset and stays up all night
- DEC13-14Geminid meteor showerPeak night, 40-50 an hour under dark skies
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NIH and NASA offer up to $7.1 million for quantum sensors that could cut animal testing
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Voyager 1 went silent for two days, then returned on its own
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Your name can fly to Titan on Dragonfly, but the sign-up closes Jan. 15
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Swift ends science after 21 years, with 2,000 gamma-ray bursts logged
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Leaving Earth soon
Full launch schedule ›- OCT30Indian Space Research OrganizationIRNSS-1LGSLV Mk. II · Navigation18:21 UTCOne to watch
- OCT31SpaceXStarlink Group 15-18Falcon 9 · Communications03:48 UTC
- NOV2Rocket LabThe Sea God SurveysElectron · Earth Sciencearound 16:00 UTC
- NOV3CAS SpaceSpaceSail Polar Group TBD?Kinetica 2 · Communicationsaround 00:00 UTC
Times in your time zone. Launch times change often; the schedule refreshes every few minutes.
Rocket Launches
Japan sets Mars moons mission launch for Oct. 19 UTC, with a Phobos sample due home in 2031
- Eight AI computing satellites ride Zhuque-2E in a 10-satellite launch
- Nine launches this week, led by Japan’s H3 sending MMX toward Mars’ moon Phobos
- Gilmour Space finds oxidizer pump faults behind Eris rocket’s 14-second flight
Missions
Menon and Kutryk to fit a new roll-out solar array to the station’s port truss
- Lucy becomes the first spacecraft to enter the Jupiter Trojan asteroid region
- Curiosity lines up its next drill hole on a rock packed with crystal-shaped discs
- Mars dust is finer than thought, and Perseverance has now measured it
Universe
NASA locks in UVEX: $590 million and a launch no later than January 2031
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- Webb finds thousands of newborn stars wrapped in smoky clouds of the Large Magellanic Cloud
- ELT mirror passes the halfway mark: 931 segments, nearly 500 already in Chile
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