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NASA is launching its own streaming service later this year ( techcrunch.com )

Researchers find evidence of organic matter on Mars ( www.engadget.com )

Space junk in Earth orbit and on the Moon will increase with future missions − but nobody's in charge of cleaning it up ( theconversation.com )

Heavy, highly magnetic star may be first magnetar precursor we’ve seen ( arstechnica.com )

Magnetars are some of the most extreme objects we know about, with magnetic fields so strong that chemistry becomes impossible in their vicinity. They’re neutron stars with a superfluid interior that includes charged particles, so it’s easy to understand how a magnetic dynamo is maintained to support that magnetic field. But...

It's Looking Increasingly Likely India's Historic Lunar Lander Is Dead For Good ( www.sciencealert.com )

Our neighbor — Andromeda M31 [OC] ( lemmy.world )

Shot with friends. We were lucky to go to a spot dark enough to get this picture with a Single exposure (~90s) and no light filters.

The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion ( arstechnica.com )

Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a different matter....

Stoke Space successfully conducted a vertical takeoff and vertical landing (VTVL) developmental test flight of their reusable second stage rocket ( www.stokespace.com )

New Moderators Needed for c/space!

We noticed this community was abandoned by its previous founder and moderators, and so we’re here to help it thrive again!...

Super-close supernova captivates record number of citizen scientists ( www.space.com )

NASA Just Revealed a 7-Planet System Hiding in Old Mission Data ( www.sciencealert.com )

NASA thinks space is teeming with planets that have gone rogue ( mashable.com )

NASA officials sound alarm over future of the Deep Space Network ( arstechnica.com )

DSN needs more bandwidth to handle everything they want to throw at it, but isn’t getting the budget

NASA open to extending ISS beyond 2030 ( spacenews.com )

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/8492311...

Your Guide to October’s Much-Anticipated ‘Ring of Fire’ Solar Eclipse ( gizmodo.com )

The annular solar eclipse will be visible across North, Central, and South America on October 14. It’s the last one for the U.S. until 2039.

Alien life in Universe: Scientists say finding it is 'only a matter of time' ( www.bbc.com )

Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites add to astronomers’ light-pollution woes | Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )

Ryugu asteroid samples reveal traces of rock from before the Sun existed ( arstechnica.com )

When JAXA’s Hayabusa-1 spacecraft delivered samples from asteroid Ryugu to Earth in late 2020, anticipation was high. What could the space rock possibly be waiting to tell us?...