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October’s Night Sky Delivers a Rare Convergence of Meteors, Saturn, and Aurora

October is shaping up as one of the year’s most rewarding months for skywatchers, with three meteor showers, Saturn at peak visibility, and a renewed chance to see the northern lights. The month also marks one of the last strong windows to view the Milky Way’s core before seasonal darkness and changing sky conditions reduce its prominence.

By RDU Global Wire5 min read

Space Exploration & Commercial Space24m ago

NASA Bets on Webb Spare Parts for PRIMA, a Faster, Cheaper Telescope With Billion-Dollar Ambitions

NASA is moving ahead with PRIMA, a new space telescope mission designed to deliver major science at lower cost by reusing spare parts from the James Webb Space Telescope. The agency is aiming to build the observatory in record time, signaling a push for faster, more efficient flagship-class missions even as budgets tighten and expectations for scientific return rise.

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Space Exploration & Commercial Space1h ago

Private Spacecraft Falls Back to Earth After Failed Mission to Save Aging NASA Telescope

A privately built spacecraft has returned to Earth after an unsuccessful attempt to reach and potentially extend the life of an aging NASA telescope, underscoring both the promise and the difficulty of commercial in-space servicing. The mission's failure leaves the telescope's future uncertain while highlighting the technical risks facing a new era of private orbital repair and rescue operations.

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Space Exploration & Commercial Space1h ago

NASA Bets on PRIMA to Build a Billion-Dollar Far-Infrared Telescope at Record Speed

NASA has selected PRIMA, a far-infrared space telescope mission, as the first project in its new mission class, signaling a push to deliver major science at lower cost and in less time than traditional flagship observatories. The mission is designed to survey the cool universe and could open a new window on star formation, dust, and the hidden processes shaping galaxies.

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Space Exploration & Commercial Space2h ago

Harvard Scientists Detect First Radio Signal From a Planet Beyond the Solar System

Astronomers have reported the first-ever detection of radio emissions traced directly to an exoplanet, a breakthrough that could open a new way to study distant worlds and their magnetic environments. The signal, identified by Harvard researchers and highlighted across major science outlets, is being framed not as evidence of alien life but as a historic step in understanding how planets outside our solar system behave.

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Space Exploration & Commercial Space2h ago

James Webb Telescope Finds the Early Universe Was Already Enriched With Heavy Elements

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope are reshaping astronomers' understanding of the universe's first billion years. Rather than a pristine cosmos made only of hydrogen and helium, Webb is finding early galaxies already seeded with heavier elements, suggesting the first generations of stars formed and died faster than expected.

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