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China launches another geostationary military satellite

A Long March 3B rocket takes off with the TJS 7 satellite. Credit: CASC

China launched another military satellite Tuesday aboard a Long March 3B rocket, just four hours after liftoff of a different Chinese launcher with multiple prototype spacecraft for a planned constellation of orbiting internet relay nodes.

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Boom!'s 'Dune: A Whisper of Caladan Seas' traps Atreides troops in an Arrakis cave in this 1st look

Boom! Studios is releasing a third offering in their engaging series of "Dune" comic books titled "Dune: A Whisper of Caladan Seas" in December.

SpaceX rolls out Falcon 9 rocket for space station cargo mission

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Cargo Dragon spacecraft stand on pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in florida on Wednesday. Credit: SpaceX

On the cusp of ending a two-month SpaceX launch drought, ground crews raised a Falcon 9 rocket vertical Wednesday on its launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for an engine test-firing and final cargo loading before liftoff Saturday on a resupply flight to the International Space Station.

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China’s Rover Completes its Primary 90-day Mission, but it Still has More Science to do

Three months after touching down on the Martian surface, China’s Zhurong rover has completed its primary mission and is still going strong.

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International Space Station could be followed by commercial space stations after 2030, NASA says

NASA hopes that commercial space stations will orbit Earth once the International Space Station eventually retires, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said today (Aug. 25) at the 36th Space Symposium.

The Best Evidence for Life on Mars Might be Found on its Moons

The search for Martian life has been ongoing for decades.  Various landers and rovers have searched for biosignatures or other hints that life existed either currently or in the past on the Red Planet.  But so far, results have been inconclusive.  That might be about to change, though, with a slew of missions planned to collect even more samples for testing.  Mars itself isn’t the only place they are looking, though. Some scientists think the best place to find evidence of life is one of Mars’ moons. 

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Astronauts celebrate Tokyo Paralympics opening day with 'torch' ceremony in space

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station celebrated the opening of the Tokyo Paralympic Games by posing with a photo with a torch.

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is back in the factory to fix stuck valves

There's no new launch date yet for Orbital Flight Test 2.

ULA readies Vulcan booster for cryogenic tanking test

EDITOR’S NOTE: We are streaming a live view of pad 41 as ULA rolls out a Vulcan pathfinder booster for cryogenic tanking tests.

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The CAPSTONE cubesat, a small spacecraft bound for the moon, is preparing for an October launch

NASA's plan to "reboot" human exploration of the moon will get kick-started soon by a spacecraft the size of a microwave oven.

Hollywood artists offer full-scale replica of Apollo spacecraft controls

A team of Hollywood prop and visual artists are offering replicas of the Apollo command module control panel.

An Asteroid has Been Discovered That Crosses Mercury’s Orbit

Astronomers have spotted the fastest-ever asteroid orbiting Sun — and at times, it gets closer to the Sun than the planet Mercury.

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Astronomers Discover Asteroid that Flies Close to the Sun

Newly discovered asteroid 2021 PH27 orbits the Sun in just 113 days.

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Spaceflight makes the body kill red blood cells and it doesn't get better after landing

Scientists have figured out the average color of the universe by recording visible light from more than 200,000 galaxies.

Lego's Large Creative Brick Box is 37% off at Amazon in pre-Black Friday deal

It was a time of political uncertainty, cultural conflict and social change.

Watch Black Holes Grow, Galaxies Fall

Watch black holes grow and galaxies fall — astro photos and visualizations to get you through the week.

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Samples of the Biofilms experiment are headed to the International Space Station on the SpaceX CR23 cargo resupply mission this weekend to help maintain astronaut and material safety in space. 

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SpaceX paused Starlink launches to give its internet satellites lasers

SpaceX hasn't launched any Starlink internet satellites since June. It turns out it's because the company has been adding "lasers."

James Webb Space Telescope unfurls massive sunshield in major deployment milestone

Venus is Earth's twisted twin in so many ways, what about on the skywatching front?

Historic Greenland ice sheet rainfall unravelled

Tokyo-based ispace unveiled its next-generation "Series 2" robotic moon lander Tuesday (Aug. 24) at the ​​36th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.

5 ways to save money when buying photography equipment

A Russian startup is testing a technology that filters out disruptive passes of SpaceX's Starlink satellites from astronomical observations.


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