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SpaceX crewmates Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken awarded Space Medal of Honor
Former NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken have been presented with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, the highest U.S. honor reserved for spaceflight veterans.
Starlink satellites, Italian space tug launched by SpaceX rocket
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Tuesday, Jan. 31. Credit: Brian Sandoval / Spaceflight Now
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday from California’s Central Coast with 49 Starlink internet satellites and a rideshare space tug for the Italian company D-Orbit, itself carrying tech demo experiments and cremated human remains for customers in the United States, Germany, New Zealand, and Switzerland.
'Star Trek: Picard's' sinister Borg Queen Annie Wersching has died at 45
'Star Trek: Picard" actress Annie Wersching has died at the age of 45 after a two-year illness.
Exoplanets dance around distant star in stunning 12-year timelapse (video)
A new video shows us 12 years in the lives of orbiting exoplanets, crunched down to just a few dramatic seconds.
Don’t Bother Trying to Destroy Rubble Pile Asteroids
The asteroids in our Solar System are survivors. They’ve withstood billions of years of collisions. The surviving asteroids are divided into two groups: monolithic asteroids, which are intact chunks of planetesimals, and rubble piles, which are made of up fragments of shattered primordial asteroids.
DARPA's hypersonic HAWC completes final flight test at over Mach 5
DARPA announced the end of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) program with a final successful test flight that reached speeds over Mach 5 and flew for more than 300 nautical miles.
James Webb Space Telescope recovers from 2nd instrument glitch
After one of its instruments was briefly knocked offline, the James Webb Space Telescope returned to full science operations on Monday (Jan. 30).
Astronomers Find a Dozen More Moons for Jupiter
The discovery of a dozen new moons for Jupiter makes the king of planets the king of moons, too — at least for now.
New cosmic map reveals the universe's matter isn't as 'clumpy' as it should be
Scientists have released one of the most accurate maps of the universe's matter ever created, featuring precise measurements of its distribution throughout the cosmos.
Mars helicopter Ingenuity soars over Perseverance rover tracks on 41st flight
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter flew for the 41st time on Mars Jan. 27, going out and back again with 600 feet (183 meters) of flight distance over 109 seconds.
Save a whopping $400 on the Meta Quest Pro VR headset at Amazon
The Meta Quest Pro VR headset is on offer for the first time since launch.
Machine learning spots 8 potential technosignatures
Humans have five new leads in the search to find life beyond our solar system.
Watch This 12-Year Timelapse of Exoplanets Orbiting Their Star
Back in 2008, astronomers made a big announcement: for the first time, they had taken pictures of a multi-planet solar system, much like ours, orbiting another star. At the time, the star system, named HR8799 was known to have three planets, but follow-up observations a year later revealed a fourth world.
Save 27% on the Celestron SkyMaster Pro 20x80 binoculars
Gazing into the infinity has only become easier and cheaper this winter. Save 27% on the Skymaster Pros built to repel inclement weather.
Live coverage: SpaceX launch from California set for today
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on the Starlink 2-6 mission with 49 Starlink internet satellites and a rideshare payload for the Italian company D-Orbit. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Unidentified aerial annoyance: Full disclosure or dubious nonsense?
The coming year will surely see a persistence of debate, discussion and disbelief regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena.
Faraway blue star cluster shines in Hubble Space Telescope photo
Stars can come in an array of shapes, sizes, ages and colors. But in the case of NGC 2031, the context doesn't quite match the colors.
Freezing Ocean Might Not Be Responsible for Cryovolcanic Flows on Pluto’s Moon, Charon
In a recent study scheduled to be published in the journal Icarus in March 2023, a team of researchers led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) modeled a potential correlation between an ancient freezing ocean with cryovolcanic flows and surface canyons on Pluto’s largest moon, Charon. Their hypothesis was that when Charon’s interior ocean froze long ago, the significant stress put on the icy outer shell from the addition of more ice to the bottom of the existing shell could have been responsible for the cryovolcanic flows on the surface.
South Korea’s Danuri Mission Sends Home Pictures of the Earth and Moon
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) both ended 2022 and started 2023 on a very high note as its first-ever lunar orbiter, Danuri, sent back black-and-white images of the Earth with the Moon’s surface in the foreground that were photographed between December 24 and January 1, KARI announced in a January 3rd statement. Both the images and videos were taken less than 120 kilometers (75 miles) above the Moon’s surface, and will be “used to select potential sites for a Moon landing in 2032,” KARI added in the statement.
