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United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket climbs off pad 41 Tuesday at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with the SES 20 and SES 21 television broadcasting satellites. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography

Running a few days late after a delay caused by Hurricane Ian, an Atlas 5 rocket built by United Launch Alliance thundered off a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Tuesday and soared to an altitude of nearly 22,000 miles to deploy two commercial television broadcasting satellites for the commercial operator SES.

Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina during training at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX

Cosmonaut Anna Kikina will become the first Russian crew member to launch on a U.S. spacecraft since 2002 when she straps into a seat aboard SpaceX’s Dragon Endurance capsule Wednesday for a flight to the International Space Station, opening a new chapter in the U.S.-Russian partnership in orbit that a senior Russian space agency official hopes can be extended past the current end date of 2024, despite souring relations on Earth.

SpaceX has delayed the liftoff of its next Starlink satellite fleet in order to launch four Crew-5 astronauts for NASA on Oct. 5.

Elon Musk has proposed proceeding with his purchase of Twitter at the original price of $54.20 per share, according to media reports.

Watch what the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has observed (galaxies galore and swarms of asteroids) and then see what goes on behind the scenes.

China’s human spaceflight agency has begun the search for a new batch of astronauts to join its ranks as the country moves to complete its orbiting space station.

Three scientists who laid the groundwork for the understanding of the odd "entangling" behavior of quantum particles have received the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Varsity Tutors launches the course on Thursday (Oct. 7) for anybody who loves space.

you can snap up a $152 discount on the Panasonic Lumix G100 which is brilliant for shooting both images and video.

Airbus has been testing its Mars Sample Fetch rover in simulated Martian terrain in a quarry near London, hoping the technology will get a second chance on a future moon mission.

The test on Tuesday (Oct. 4) marked the first time a North Korean missile overflew Japan in five years, according to media reports.

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The mission will launch the commercial SES 20 and SES 21 communications satellites toward geosynchronous orbit. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.

Satellites have revealed the scale of destruction wreaked by Hurricane Ian over Florida last week, but images also show glimpses of recovery where power has already been restored.

Image: ESA opens up

World Space Week begins October 4 and it’s the perfect time to start mapping out your plans for next year’s night sky events.

The asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out much of the planet's plant and animal life (most famously the dinosaurs), also triggered a worldwide tsunami with mile-high waves.

Meet Scheat, the orange giant star that peaks the Great Square of Pegasus in autumn skies in the Northern Hemisphere.