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First 'Barbie' teaser trailer parodies Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'

Warner Bros. releases the first "Barbie" trailer in a nod to Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey."

Russian space debris forces space station to dodge, cancels US spacewalk

A piece of Russian space junk forced NASA to call off a spacewalk and the International Space Station to dodge out of the way on Wednesday (Dec. 21).

There's a new trailer for the sci-fi movie '65' and it looks fantastic

A new trailer for 65, a sci-fi action movie featuring dinosaurs where the past meets the future, is available to watch and it looks epic.

The sun is waking up, and the world's largest solar telescope is watching

With the world's largest solar telescope now conducting formal observations, scientists are eager to watch the sun's increasing activity and better understand the threats of space weather.

Young ESA team prepare Ariane 6 passenger

Image: Young ESA team prepare Ariane 6 passenger

Winter solstice 2022 brings the longest night of the year to Northern Hemisphere

The winter solstice is today (Dec. 21), marking the official start of astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest day of the year.

8 ways the James Webb Space Telescope is revolutionizing astronomy

One year after its launch, the flagship space telescope is already making discoveries that are transforming our knowledge of the universe, both near and far.

Snowy Alps

Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-3 image shows the wide-coverage of snowfall in the Alps, which hopefully bodes well for the coming year.

A wreath of star formation

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Webb's picture of the month December is dominated by NGC 7469, a luminous, face-on spiral galaxy approximately 90 000 light-years in diameter that lies roughly 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. 

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ESA to invite companies to connect with the Moon

Space companies in Europe that could create telecommunications and navigation services for missions to the Moon will be invited to bid for the work, following the completion of two feasibility studies.

Juice launch kit

Download this launch kit (in English, other languages below) to learn more about the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission and its science goals.

Two Pléiades Neo Earth-imaging satellites lost in failure of Europe’s Vega C rocket

Illustration of the Vega C rocket with its Zefiro 40 second stage firing. Credit: Arianespace

The final two spacecraft in Airbus’s four-satellite, 600 million-euro commercial Pléiades Neo Earth observation fleet crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after launch from French Guiana Tuesday night, falling victim to a failure of a European Vega C rocket.

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Europe's Vega C rocket fails on 2nd-ever mission, 2 satellites lost

Europe's Vega C rocket failed during its second-ever mission on Tuesday night (Dec. 20), which was supposed to loft two satellites for Airbus' Pléiades Neo Earth-imaging constellation.

Live coverage: Vega C rocket set for operational debut

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Vega C rocket with the Pléiades Neo 5 and 6 commercial Earth observation satellites for Airbus. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.

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Two potentially habitable Earth-like worlds orbit a star in our cosmic backyard

Astronomers have discovered two Earth-like exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf near our solar system that orbit their star with respective 'years' lasting just 10 and 21 days.

Watch 2 NASA astronauts conduct spacewalk early Wednesday

Two NASA astronauts will conduct a spacewalk early Wednesday (Dec. 21) to install new solar arrays on the International Space Station, and you can watch it live.

Astronomers Spot Stars in the Most Distant Galaxies for the First Time

Since it launched on December 25th, 2021 (quite the Christmas present!), the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken the sharpest and most detailed images of the Universe, surpassing even its predecessor, the venerable Hubble Space Telescope! But what is especially exciting are the kinds of observations we can look forward to, where the JWST will use its advanced capabilities to address some of the most pressing cosmological mysteries. For instance, there’s the problem presented by high-redshift supermassive black holes (SMBHs) or brightly-shining quasars that existed during the first billion years of the Universe.

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Zero-G flight for disability ambassadors shows space is accessible for all

AstroAccess flew 14 individuals from 5 countries on a parabolic research flight Dec. 15, to open up space research to more people.

SpaceX aims to start launching next-gen Starlink satellites this month: report

SpaceX will soon start launching a new generation of Starlink broadband satellites, which could help the company deal with surging demand, according to a report.


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