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SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites from California (video, photos) (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX launched 20 more of its Starlink internet satellites from California early Monday morning (Nov. 18). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 20 Starlink spacecraft, including 13 with direct-to-cell capability, lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 12:53 a.m. EST […]
SpaceX launches heavy satellite in 1st mission for India’s space agency (video, photos) (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX launched its first-ever mission for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) today (Nov. 18). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying ISRO’s GSAT-N2 communications satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 1:31 p.m. […]
Hubble Telescope witnesses Milky Way strip its galactic neighbor of gas (Image Credit: Space.com) In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully. Our galaxy’s two closest neighbors are two dwarf galaxies known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Being much smaller […]
India plans to build a moon-orbiting space station by 2040 (Image Credit: Space.com) India plans to build a moon-orbiting space station by 2040 as part of its ambitious roadmap to establish a long-term presence beyond Earth orbit. The outpost will support crewed missions to the surface of the moon and serve as […]
SpaceX fuels up Starship megarocket in key test ahead of 6th test flight (photos) (Image Credit: Space.com) The largest, most powerful rocket ever built is about to launch on its sixth test flight. SpaceX’s Starship upper stage and Super Heavy booster are stacked next to the launch tower at the company’s Starbase […]
SpaceX’s epic Starship Super Heavy rocket catch looked just like the company imagined (side-by-side video) (Image Credit: Space.com) A new video released ahead of SpaceX’s next Starship launch shows just how perfectly the rocket booster nailed its first landing. SpaceX launched its 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship vehicle for the fifth time Oct. […]
A distant planet seems to have a sulphur-rich atmosphere, hinting at alien volcanoes (Image Credit: Space.com) Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goes on, we’re steadily learning more about the exoplanets we’ve already detected: […]
Pentagon UFO office testifies to US Senate on Tuesday. Watch it live here (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) Watch live! Pentagon UFO office testifies to Senate emerging threats committee – YouTube Watch On A U.S. Senate subcommittee will hear from the Pentagon’s UFO office tomorrow, and you can watch live. Director Jon T. […]
Student-Built Rocket Shatters Altitude Record (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) A group of students broke the record for the highest altitude reached by an independently designed and built suborbital rocket, flying Aftershock II to 470,000 feet (143,256 meters) above Earth’s surface. The University of Southern California’s student-run Rocket Propulsion Lab (USCRPL) designed and built […]
Hubble takes a look at tangled galaxies MCG+05-31-045 (Image Credit: Phys.org) This Hubble image features a pair of interacting spiral galaxies called MCG+05-31-045. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. J. Foley (UC Santa Cruz) This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the cosmic tangle that is MCG+05-31-045, a pair of interacting galaxies located […]
