A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with 50 Starlink internet satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Credit: William G. Hartenstein
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a batch of 50 more Starlink internet satellites Friday from the Central Coast of California, the company’s second Starlink mission in four days. Two more Starlink launches are scheduled from Florida in the first half of March.
We still have no idea what species 10-C will look like or what their motives are.
What's beyond the known limits? What lies outside the boundary of the universe? The answer is — well, it's complicated.
The head of Russia's space agency warned Thursday (Feb. 24) that new sanctions imposed on his country could have dire consequences for the International Space Station program.
Dark Horse Comics releases "Radio Spaceman," a new sci-fi series from writer Mike Mignola and artist Greg Hinkle.
Remember that iconic scene in Star Wars, where a young Skywalker steps out onto the surface of Tatooine and watches the setting of two suns? As it turns out, this may be what it is like for lifeforms on the exoplanet known as Kepler-16, a rocky planet that orbits in a binary star system. Originally discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission, an international team of astronomers recently confirmed that this planet orbits two stars at once – what is known as a circumbinary planet.
It’s coming together! Engineers for the James Webb Space Telescope have now completed two more phases of the seven-step, three-month-long mirror alignment process. This week, the team made more adjustments to the mirror segments along with updating the alignment of its secondary mirror. These refinements allowed for all 18 mirror segments to work together — for the first time — to produce one unified image.
Stars are getting sharper in the James Webb Space Telescope's field of view.
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Happy 100 days in space to ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer. The first-time space flier marked the milestone on 19 February 2022 and what a busy 100-days it been.
"Last Exit: Space," which was narrated and executive produced by Werner Herzog, looks at humanity's quest to extend its footprint beyond Earth.
The Hubble Space Telescope kicked off the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) two decades ago, but soon, the newly launched James Webb Space Telescope will join the galaxy-mapping program.
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The average distance between Earth and the moon is about 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers).
According to new research led by the University of Rochester, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) should be broadened to look for signs of "planetary intelligence."
The global average surface temperature lies somewhere around 57 degrees Fahrenheit (13.9 degrees Celsius).
SpaceX will launch 50 satellites and land the returning rocket today (Feb. 25), and you can watch the action live.
Some of Saturn’s auroras are triggered by swirling winds within the planet’s own atmosphere, a completely new type of aurora not seen on any other planet before, new research suggests.
The spacecraft will zoom close to 5 million miles from the sun's surface during its 11th flyby.
Satellites orbiting Earth are capturing a detailed view of Russia's invasion into Ukraine.
Mars' atmosphere is over 100 times thinner than Earth's and is primarily composed of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and argon gases.
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