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Though scientists know there's a supermassive black hole at the center of most galaxies, they can't explain how the gravitational giants formed.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will fly for a record-setting 12th time tonight (March 18), and you can watch the historic action live.

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One of the many milestones in the leadup to the launch of Artemis is its rollout: this is when a crawler will carry the SLS rocket with Orion and ESM from the Vehicle Assembly Building to launchpad 39B. NASA’s John Giles gives us a tour of the crawler and explains the adaptations made to this “wonderful piece of machinery” since it was first built for the Apollo programme in the 1960s. ESA is playing a key role in NASA’s Artemis programme, which will bring astronauts back to the Moon. The European Service Module – or ESM – will provide propulsion, power and thermal control for the Orion spacecraft.

ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer is scheduled to perform his first spacewalk next week, stepping outside the International Space Station on Wednesday 23 March alongside NASA’s Raja Chari.

Sirius sparkles on the corner of the Meat Cleaver, two open clusters hide under the Cleaver's handle, Orion's Belt levels out for the turning of spring, and Venus, Mars and Saturn slow-dance at dawn.

Part of Lake Nasser, one of the largest artificial lakes in the world, is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

SpaceX raised a Falcon 9 rocket vertical Thursday night at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now

SpaceX raised a veteran Falcon 9 booster vertical on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral late Thursday, ready for a record-setting 12th mission Friday night with 53 more Starlink internet satellites.

Three Russian cosmonauts will launch toward the International Space Station on Friday (March 18), and you can watch the action live.

On March 17, 2022, NASA rolled out the Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule that will fly the agency's Artemis 1 mission. See photos here.

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Korsakov, Oleg Artemyev, and Denis Matveev during a training session inside their Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft. Credit: Roscosmos

Three cosmonauts set to kick off a six-and-a-half month expedition in orbit will launch Friday on Russia’s first mission to the International Space Station since the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

Watch it go! NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission is on its way to the launch pad.

There might be different populations of these powerful cosmic flashes, new research suggests.

The Elegoo Mars 2 Pro is a resin-based 3D printer with plenty of tricks up its red acrylic hood.

Please, please make Grudge the showrunner for Season 5

Satellite images also show extensive damage in the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol, Sumy, Chernihiv and Kharkiv.

The golden spiral arms of a distant galaxy sparkle in new images from the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

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Replay of the media information session following the 306th ESA Council, held on 16 and 17 March 2022 in Paris, France. Updates were provided on ESA’s main programmes, the outcome of the 16 February Space Summit in Toulouse, upcoming missions for Earth Observation, and for ESA astronauts, the overall rollout of the Director General’s Agenda 2025 on the way to the ESA Ministerial Meeting in November 2022 as well as the implications of the current geopolitical situation on ESA’s activities.

The origins of the Lagrange points are sunk deep within one of the most difficult problems faced by mathematicians and physicists over the past 400 years: the three-body problem.

The Worm full moon of March peaks early Friday, March 18, but still appears full for a day or two.