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U.S. lunar mission readies for crucial maneuver | Tech Reader
An American space mission that’s vying to make history by becoming the first commercial endeavor to achieve a soft lunar landing — and also the first U.S. landing...
Dramatic images show a large satellite tumbling toward Earth | Tech Reader
The European Space Agency (ESA) has shared remarkable images showing one of its satellites in what it describes as a “tumbling descent.”
ESA’s European Remote Sensing 2 satellite (ERS-2)...
Hubble spots massive star forming amid cloud of dust and gas | Tech Reader
A stunning new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the birth of a new, massive star at around 30 times the mass of our sun. Nestled with...
One last orbit: how and why NASA kills its own spacecraft | Tech Reader
For more than a decade, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has been searching the sky for near-Earth objects. Using its infrared vision, the spacecraft,...
Hubble spies baby stars being born in interacting galaxies | Tech Reader
When two galaxies collide, the results can be destructive, with one of the galaxies ending up ripped apart, but it can also be constructive too. In the swirling...
How to watch NASA launch its PACE satellite tonight | Tech Reader
Although NASA is most often associated with sending missions out to observe space, the agency also has a large number of space missions that turn the other way...
