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Perseverance Begins the Next Phase of its Mission, Studying an Ancient River Bed on Mars
On February 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance (Percy) Rover successfully landed in the dried-up lakebed known as Jezero Crater on Mars, beaming back images and video of its descent and landing to millions of space fans living on the planet that built and launched this incredible robotic explorer. With this landing came enormous excitement for a new era of robotic exploration of the Red Planet as we slowly continue to unlock the secrets of Mars and its ancient past, to include (hopefully) finding evidence of past life.
SpaceX deploys more Starlink satellites, aims for higher launch cadence
A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off Thursday with 53 more Starlink internet satellites. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography
SpaceX launched 53 more Starlink satellites Thursday from Cape Canaveral, growing the company’s commercial internet network while ground teams seek to increase the already-blistering pace of Falcon 9 rocket missions.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission: Live updates
Read the latest news about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
Astronomy Jargon 101: Sunspots
In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You’ll feel a little cooler after reading about today’s topic: sunspots!
Mass grave near besieged Ukrainian city Mariupol spotted from space (satellite photos)
Satellites operated by Maxar Technologies have spotted a recently excavated mass grave in the town of Manhush, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) west of the battered Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors are cooling to deep space temperature
While the James Webb Space Telescope is almost at its deep space temperature, NASA officials wrote in an update, there's no firm timeline on when it will get cool enough.
Here are All of Hubble’s Observations in One Picture
Over the past 32 years, Hubble has made about 1.4 million observations of our Universe. Physicist Casey Handmer was curious how much of the sky has been imaged by Hubble, and so has now mapped out all of Hubble’s observations into one big picture of the sky.
Astrobotic unveils Peregrine lunar lander that will fly to the moon this year (photos)
Astrobotic just unveiled the flight model of its robotic Peregrine lunar lander, which is slated to launch to the moon late this year.
The Large Hadron Collider is about to turn back on after a 3-year hiatus
The world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator is about to turn back on.
ULA begins stacking Atlas 5 rocket for Boeing’s Starliner test flight
An Atlas 5 first stage, with its Russian-made RD-180 engine, is prepared for stacking outside ULA’s Vertical Integration Facility on Wednesday morning. Credit: United Launch Alliance
Final assembly of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket began Wednesday with the hoisting of a first stage booster onto a mobile launch platform at Cape Canaveral, kicking off a campaign to prepare for liftoff May 19 on a delayed unpiloted test flight of Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule.
Venus' Atmosphere Stops it From Locking to the Sun
Of the thousands of exoplanets we’ve discovered, most of them closely orbit red dwarf stars. Part of this is because planets with short orbital periods are easier to find, but part of this is that red dwarf stars make up about 75% of the stars in our galaxy. This propensity of close orbiting planets has some pretty big implications for “potentially habitable” worlds, not the least of which is that most of these planets are likely tidally locked to their star. Or so we’ve thought.
25 unbelievable facts about the solar system revealed in All About Space magazine
Inside the latest issue of All About Space you'll find incredible solar system facts, the tale of stellar remnants and a mystery surrounding strange filaments in the Milky Way.
The sun burps out a flare in a stellar new photo
The sun is a beehive of flaring activity in a stunning new photo from a NASA spacecraft.
Uranus by 2049: Here's why scientists want NASA to send a flagship mission to the strange planet
A key committee of scientists has recommended that a flagship mission to Uranus should be NASA's highest-priority large planetary science mission for the next decade.
Stars: Facts about stellar formation, history and classification
Learn how stars form, how stars and constellations are named, what happens when stars like our sun evolve, and ultimately, die.
Live coverage: SpaceX rocket ready for launch with more Starlink satellites
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Starlink 4-14 mission will launch SpaceX’s next batch of 53 Starlink broadband satellites. Follow us on Twitter.
Celestron SkyMaster Pro 15x70 binoculars review
These binoculars give you an amazing stargazing experience, with a good combination of magnification, aperture and portability.
Astronomers Find Possible Quasar Harbinger in Hubble Image
A distant object in a deep Hubble Space Telescope field could be in transition from ordinary galaxy to brilliant beacon of light.
Chinese Astronomers Recorded Earliest Account of Aurora
How dating an ancient text revealed one of the oldest observations of aurora known.
Icy Europa's mysterious double ridges may hint at hidden pockets of water
A ridge etched into the ice sheet of Greenland provides an unexpected hint that plentiful pockets of water may be trapped just underneath the surface of Jupiter's ice-covered moon Europa.
