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The powerhouse of Gateway, NASA's orbiting outpost around the Moon and a critical piece of infrastructure for Artemis, is in the midst of several electric

Most of the matter in the universe is missing. Scientists believe around 85% of the matter in the cosmos is made of invisible dark matter, which has only been detected indirectly by its gravitational effects on its surroundings.

A research team has, for the first time, realized the quantum amplification of an extremely weak magnetic field by using dark spin, with the magnetic field magnification exceeding a factor of 5,000 and the single magnetic field measurement accuracy reaching 0.1fT level. The study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Do we have enough fuel to get to our destination? This is probably one of the first questions that comes to mind whenever your family gets ready to embark on a road trip. If the trip is long, you will need to visit gas stations along your route to refuel during your travel.

A renovated Chinese underground lab has expanded the search for dark matter, offering new promise for the detection of this abundant yet elusive substance.

Scientists have dated the birth of the solar system to about 4.57 billion years ago. About 60 million years later a "giant impact" collision between the infant Earth and a Mars-sized body called Theia created the moon.

NASA's launching a spacecraft toward an intriguing metal asteroid on Oct. 12. Here's what we might find on 16 Psyche.

Missions to the moon, missions to Mars, robotic explorers to the outer solar system, a mission to the nearest star, and maybe even a spacecraft to catch up to interstellar objects passing through our system. If you think this sounds like a description of the coming age of space exploration, then you'd be correct.

Bound for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche mission is targeting Oct. 5 to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

French novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century readers with the tantalizing notion that a journey to the center of the Earth was actually plausible. Since then, scientists have long acknowledged that Verne's literary journey was only science fiction. The extreme temperatures of the Earth's inter...

Preparations are proceeding for the launch a NASA orbiter that uses futuristic electric propulsion technology for a rendezvous with 16 Psyche, the heart of a demolished planet believed to be made almost entirely of iron.

A research team led by Prof. Lyu Bo from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has improved the diagnostic accuracy of X-ray Crystal Spectroscopy (XCS) and investigated a series of fusion reactor-related spectral lines on tungsten (W) and xenon (Xe) at the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST).

Tianzhou-6 cargo spacecraft reaches China's Tiangong space station An upgraded Tianzhou cargo spacecraft docked at China's Tiangong space station Wednesday ahead of a new crewed mission to the orbital outpost.

The DarkSide experiment is an ambitious research effort aimed at detecting dark matter particle interactions in liquid argon using a dual-phase physics detector located at the underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory. These interactions could be observed by minimizing background signals, and this could be possible thanks to the remarkable discrimination power of the scintillation pulse of liquefied argon in the…

Steve Roberts may well have been the original digital nomad. Learn more about him and his fascinating computerized bicycles here...

SpaceX launches and lands rocket on mission for OneWeb – Spaceflight Now  Spaceflight NowSpaceX launches 40 OneWeb internet satellites to orbit, lands rocket  Space.comSpace X launches satellites into low-Earth orbit  Sky NewsUpdates: Thursday's SpaceX Falcon 9 launch and Cape landing successful  Florida TodaySpaceX launches OneWeb 17 mission and returns booster to LZ-1 - NASASpaceFlight.com  NASASpaceflight.com

Only two more launches are needed to complete OneWeb's nearly 650-satellite fleet of broadband relay stations.

For a long time, no one knew how "heavy metals" formed—or showed up on Earth. Now some new evidence finally points the way to an answer.

Orbital Index will be taking next week off for the holidays. We'll see you bright and early in the New Year!

Manufacturers using plasma processes in semiconductor production and materials processing will have a new tool to avoid undesirable plasma stratifications using a computer striations model developed by The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and CFD Research Corp (CFDRC).