SpaceX's Next-Gen Starlink Satellites have started falling from space.

It’s been a little over a month since SpaceX launched 21 mini versions of its next-generation Starlink satellites, but it appears that one of those little guys just couldn’t cling to orbit any longer. The Starlink satellite designated as 30062 reentered Earth’s atmosphere on…

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SpaceX Starship will launch this new private moon rover in 2026.

A new lunar rover has been unveiled for an upcoming mission to the moon aboard a SpaceX Starship. Hawthorne, California-based Astrolab has reached an agreement with SpaceX to launch its Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) rover on an upcoming Starship mission to the mo…

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Why will NASA's Artemis 2 only fly around the moon, not orbit or land ?

Artemis 2 will be the first time NASA has sent humans to the moon in over 50 years, and a lot has changed since then. Artemis 2, which NASA aims to launch in November 2024, will send a crew of four on a test flight that will take them once around the moon and back. But the a…

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Mercury, Venus and the Pleiades put on a sky show this month.

From now through mid-April, in the western evening twilight sky, the "Queen of the Night," better known as the brilliant planet Venus, will help you to identify the normally hard-to-find planet Mercury.  And along the way, Venus will have a striking interaction wit…

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A powerful explosion NASA called as the ‘brightest of all time’.

Astronomers recently detected an explosion so large they dubbed it the BOAT—the brightest of all time. This explosion—known now as GRB 221009A—was a gamma-ray burst (GRB), a flash of extremely high-energy light that resulted from the death of a colossal star. This detonation…

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NASA names Artemis 2 astronaut crew for 1st lunar mission since Apollo.

After a 50-year break, NASA has announced the names of the four astronauts who will be taking humans back to the Artemis II Moon Mission. For the first time, a woman astronaut, Christina Koch, and a black astronaut, Victor Glover, will be part of a lunar mission. The team, …

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New James Webb telescope photo of a galaxy cluster

New James Webb telescope photo of a galaxy cluster 6 billion light years away shows a trippy phenomenon where gravity warps spacetime. New photos of galactic "arcs and streaks" in space released by NASA's James Webb telescope show just how trippy a phenomenon c…

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Mars helicopter Ingenuity goes faster and higher than ever before on 49th Red Planet flight.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has been flying on Mars for nearly two years now, and it's still breaking records. Ingenuity flew faster and higher than it ever had before on its most recent Red Planet sortie, which occurred on Sunday (April 2).  The 4-pound (1.8 kilogram…

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Evidence of Oldest-Known Meteorite Impact Discovered in Australia.

Comets and asteroids have been using Earth for target practice for as long as it's existed, but finding evidence of impacts early in the planet's history is surprisingly difficult. An international team of scientists reports finding evidence of what may be the most …

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NASA's Massive Rocket Transporter is officially a record-breaking big boy.

NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 was originally designed to carry Saturn V rockets during the Apollo program nearly 60 years ago. The aging giant recently got a much-needed upgrade for supporting the Artemis SLS megarocket, beating its twin vehicle for a world record. On Wednesd…

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NASA to send 4 humans to live on Mars from June 2023.

This summer, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is preparing four individuals to live on Mars on June 2023. The four “Martians” will be a part of NASA’s human exploration trip on Mars, even though the American space agency has long sought to send human…

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Saturn moon Titan could hold the clues to life's origin.

The fourth in a line of groundbreaking NASA missions that could redefine how we understand life in the universe is set to launch in 2027.  NASA's Dragonfly drone is headed for Saturn's largest moon, Titan, an active, icy world with a nitrogen-rich atmosphere and unde…

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Israel launches 'most advanced of its kind' radar spy satellite.

Israel launched the newest addition to its Ofek series of spy satellites early Wednesday (March 29), according to an overnight press release from the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMoD).  That release identifies "a test site in central Israel" as the launch site for …

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Astronomers have just discovered what may be the largest black hole known to date.

The giant black hole has a mass of 30 billion suns and sits at the center of a galaxy located hundreds of millions of light-years from Earth. Astronomers call the cosmic monster an ultramassive black hole, as opposed to the usual galactic supermassive black holes that weigh…

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A 2nd giant ‘hole’ appears on the sun, could trigger more amazing aurora.

A massive “hole,” up to 20 times bigger than Earth, has appeared on the surface of the sun for the second time in a week and scientists are warning that it could impact our planet. Last week, the Earth saw the results of the worst solar storm in six years, when a G4-class ge…

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NASA Warns of Asteroid Danger.

A leading scientist from NASA has raised concerns about the possibility of a gigantic asteroid hitting our planet. James Garvin, the chief scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, has warned that the danger posed by such an event is much greater than what we previou…

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NASA to name Artemis 2 crew next week, the first moon astronauts in 50 years.

We're a week away from a once-in-a-generation announcement: The names of the first moonbound astronauts in decades. On April 3, NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will together showcase the three Americans and one Canadian that will go to the moon on Artemis 2, whi…

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US restricts UAE’s 'Rashid 2' from boarding China’s mission to Moon.

The United Arab Emirates had planned to send their "Rashid 2" rover as part of the Chang'e 7 mission to the moon, which is expected to launch in 2026. However, US technology transfer restrictions have prevented this from happening. According to reports, the 197…

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Chinese lander finds hidden resource of water on moon's surface.

The moon is strewn with minuscule beads of glass that have formed over billions of years as soil ejected during asteroid impacts cools and falls back to the lunar surface. An analysis of lunar samples delivered to Earth by China's Chang'e-5 probe has now revealed th…

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Five planets line up with Moon in night sky.

Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Mars, and the Moon aligned in an arc across the evening sky on Monday, with some visible to the naked eye. This is often called "a planetary parade" and was visible after sunset in the west. A good view of the horizon and clear skies…

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