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Live coverage: SpaceX scrubs O3b mPOWER satellites launch, targets backup window on Tuesday

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the planned launch of SES’ ninth and tenth O3b mPOWER satellites. Image: SpaceX

Update July 21, 5:52 p.m. EDT: SpaceX scrubbed the launch, targeting Tuesday, July 22.

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These 3 popular skywatching star clusters may be branches of the same family tree

The Orion Nebula, the Pleiades and the Hyades open clusters could represent the different phases of star clusters: baby, adolescent and elderly.

When did our solar system's planets form? Discovery of tiny meteorite may challenge the timeline

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same time, challenging current models of our solar system’s evolution.

'Most impressive!' Darth Vader's screen-used 'Star Wars' lightsaber could fetch $3 million in September auction

Propstore will also trot out this rare relic for a 3-city press tour this August

Astronomers crack 1,000-year-old Betelgeuse mystery with 1st-ever sighting of secret companion (photo, video)

Astronomers have finally imaged the long theorized companion star of Betelgeuse, solving a mystery regarding its dimming that has persisted for millennia.

ESA selects 5 rocket companies for European Launcher Challenge

Germany's Isar and RFA, France's Maiaspace, Spain's PLD Space, and UK-based Orbex have been pre-selected for ESA's €169 million launcher initiative.

Amateur astrophotographer captures trio of breathtaking nebulas from the Central Australian Desert (photos)

"There's some great targets in the southern hemisphere, including the Carina Nebula."

Astronauts collect blood aboard the ISS | Space photo of the day for July 21, 2025

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station collect blood samples as part of a project to study human health in space.

What are these strange swirls around an infant star? 'We may be watching a planet come into existence in real time'

Astronomers have discovered a baby exoplanet "spiral architect" carving complex swirls into a disk of gas and dust around the young star HD 135344B.

Earth will spin faster today to create 2nd-shortest day in history

Our planet has been rotating at its fastest since records began in 1973.

South Korea wants to build a moon base by 2045

South Korea just laid out its long-term space exploration road map, which features the planned construction of a moon base two decades from now.

This wild bioplastic made of algae just aced a Mars pressure test. Can astronauts use it to build on the Red Planet?

Scientists have grown algae in bioplastic habitats under Mars-like conditions, a step that could bring long-term space colonization closer to reality.

Discover where the Eagle might have landed: How to find Apollo 11's backup sites on the moon

Find the locations of the five landing zones considered as the setting for humanity's first steps on another world.

NASA's Roman Space Telescope could discover 100,000 new cosmic explosions: 'We're definitely expecting the unexpected'

Supernovas, kilonovas, gamma-ray bursts... oh my! The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will uncover 100,000 of these explosions and many more powerful and violent cosmic events.

See the moon cross the Pleiades for the last time this year on July 20

The moon's crescent limb will cloak and uncover stars from the iconic cluster before sunrise.

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 169 — The Day Mars Died

On Episode 169 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by JPL Chief Engineer Emeritus Rob Manning to look back at the Mariner 4 Mars mission 60 years later.

10 unique tours and experiences for the 2027 'eclipse of the century'

From "Star Wars" film sets to baboons in Saudi Arabia, here's how to experience the "eclipse of the century" in style on Aug. 2, 2027.

Twin NASA Mars probes will fly on 2nd-ever launch of Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket now has a payload for its second-ever flight —NASA's ESCAPADE Mars mission.

2 new NASA satellites will track space weather to help keep us safe from solar storms

The new TRACERS mission will track magnetic reconnection that drives particles down into Earth's atmosphere when space weather turns bad.

Friday night light: SpaceX launch from California sends two dozen new Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit (video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Friday, July 18, 2025.


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