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(MENAFN - ING) USD: Fed providing some breathing space The Fed minutes provided some breathing space to risk assets as they struck a cautious tone, with the committee seemingly aware of the upcoming spike in US inflation in the second quarter and is unlikely to overreact until it is confident that inflation is on track to exceed 2% for some time. Despite the notable rise in US Treasury yields this year, emerging market FX remains relatively resilient. Not only are EM FX valuations not over...

Mars may not be ready to escape the spotlight just yet, even after receiving its third Earthly mission this month.

Watch live today: bluShift Aerospace to launch 1st biofuel rocket from Maine Space 31/01/2021 Space.com Staff © Provided by Space The small satellite launch startup Blushift Aerospace prepares its first Stardust 1.0 rocket prototype for a Jan. 31, 2021 launch from the Loring Commerce Centre in Limestone, Maine. 10:30 a.m. EDT (1530 GMT).   The Brunswick, Maine-based bluShift will attempt to launch its Stardust 1.0 suborbital rocket up to a 1 mile high from a runway on the...

Replay: bluShift Aerospace launches 1st biofuel rocket from Maine Space 1/31/2021 Space.com Staff © Provided by Space The small satellite launch startup Blushift Aerospace prepares its first Stardust 1.0 rocket prototype for a Jan. 31, 2021 launch from the Loring Commerce Centre in Limestone, Maine. Update for 3:56 pm EDT: bluShift Aerospace launched its Stardust 1.0 rocket and recovered the small booster and its payload. An update on the test flight is expected soon.  10:...

January full moon 2021: The Wolf Moon rises with winter constellations Space 1/27/2021 Jesse Emspak © Provided by Space The full moon of January, known as the Full Wolf Moon, arrives Thursday, Jan. 28, at 2:16 p.m. EST (1916 GMT). The full moon of January, called the Wolf Moon, will occur on Thursday, Jan. 28, at 2:16 p.m. EST (1916 GMT) according to NASA. The moon will be in the constellation Cancer, and rises just a few minutes before sunset.  Full moons happen when the ...

NASA will fire up the engines of its first Space Launch System megarocket today (Jan. 16) in a critical test for the agency's Artemis moon program. Here's how to watch it live.

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has reignited a debate about whether alien life can explain an object that visited the solar system in 2017 in a scathing new book.

Scientists think theyve spotted the farthest galaxy in the universe Space 21/12/2020 Chelsea Gohd © Provided by Space The galaxy GN-z11, which scientists think could be the farthest and oldest galaxy every observed, superimposed on an image from the COODS-North survey. Astronomers have peered out into the vast expanse and spotted what they think is the farthest (and oldest) galaxy ever observed. The galaxy GN-z11 might not have a flashy name, but it appears to be the most d...

On This Day in Space! Dec. 15, 1612: Andromeda galaxy spotted by telescope for the 1st time Space 12/15/2020 Hanneke Weitering © Provided by Space The arms and core of the Andromeda Galaxy glow among a sea of multicolored stars in this deep-space photo captured from the Cumeada Observatory at the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve in Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal. On Dec. 15, 1612, the Andromeda galaxy was seen through a telescope for the first time by a German astronomer named Sim...

See the moons shadow on Earth from the 2020 total solar eclipse in these stunning satellite views Space 15/12/2020 Samantha Mathewson © Provided by Space The total solar eclipse of Dec. 14, 2020, as seen by NOAAs GOES-16 satellite. Skywatchers in southern South America were treated to a total solar eclipse on Monday (Dec. 14), and a weather satellite captured stunning views of the event from space.  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations (NOAA) GOES-16 satell...