Daily edition
A quick read of the latest space headlines. Summaries are taken from source feeds; follow each link for the complete reporting.
ESA
Yesterday evening, during a signing ceremony at the Space for Inspiration event in Copenhagen, Denmark, the European Space Agency (ESA) and ispace-Europe celebrated the implementation of MAGPIE, set to be the first European rover on the Moon.
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Universe Today
Dark matter is the invisible stuff that accounts for roughly 85% of the mass in the universe, and for decades, physicists have been trying to figure out what it's made of. Now an experimental facility located nearly a mile below ground in South Dakota has recorded a single interaction between subatomic particles that doesn't match what's expected from normal matter. Has a dark-matter particle been detected at last? It's too early to say, but the anomaly is definitely attracting attention from dark-matter detectives.
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Spaceflight Now
Liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is currently occurred at 1:42 a.m. PDT (4:42 a.m. EDT / 0842 UTC).
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