SpaceX sets new rocket-reuse record on launch of US spy satellites.

SpaceX set a new rocket-reuse record early Friday morning (March 21). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base Friday at 2:49 a.m. EDT (0649 GMT; 11:49 p.m. on March 20 local California time), on the NROL-57 mission for the U.S. National…

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Oxygen discovered in most distant galaxy ever seen.

Astronomers have found oxygen in the farthest, and thus the earliest, galaxy ever seen. This marks the most distant detection of oxygen ever made by humanity. This early galaxy, designated JADES-GS-z14-0, has 10 times the amount of heavy elements that would be expected in a …

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"Venus kiss" happens Saturday as the planet passes between the Earth and sun.

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. The moment of conjunction will happen at around 9 p.m. EDT, but don't plan on seeing the linkup. The sight is extremely difficult to spot without special equipment and…

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Elon Musk’s X regains $44 billion valuation in major comeback.

Elon Musk’s X has reportedly regained a $44 billion valuation – the same price the world’s richest person paid to buy the social media site in 2022. The company formerly known as Twitter was valued at $44 billion in a recent secondary financing round in which investors excha…

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New outbreak of deadly bird flu strain confirmed for first time in 8 years.

A new bird flu outbreak has been confirmed as the virus continues to spread across the U.S. The deadly H7N9 strain was detected on a poultry farm in Noxubee, Mississippi, last week, for the first time since 2017. The infection of 47,654 commercial broiler-breeder chickens was…

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Hubble Telescope spies star-forming cocoons in neighboring galaxy.

Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The newborn stars belong to a cluster known as NGC 460, which is located in a region of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way…

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Dolphins welcome SpaceX's Crew-9 astronauts home after splashdown.

SpaceX's Crew-9 astronauts had some company in the water after they splashed down on Tuesday afternoon (March 18). The Crew-9 mission returned to Earth at 5:57 p.m. EDT (2157 GMT) on Tuesday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida. A f…

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Private Starlab space station moves into 'full-scale development' ahead of 2028 launch.

The Starlab commercial space station project is moving toward the production phase, having passed a key development milestone with NASA. Starlab, a joint project between the U.S. space technology firm Voyager Space and European aerospace conglomerate Airbus, will consist of …

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Health impacts of 9 months in space as 2 NASA astronauts return home after extended stay on ISS.

NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams are returning to Earth after spending an unplanned nine months in space. The pair performed the first astronaut-crewed Boeing's Starliner capsule flight to the International Space Statio…

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Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams Return to Earth after Being Stuck in Space for 9 Months.

Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore are officially back home. The astronauts safely returned to Earth on March 18, following an extended nine month stay in space. Their journey back comes after a joint NASA and SpaceX crew of four astronauts—from the United Stat…

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SpaceX's Crew-10 mission arrives at International Space Station to relieve Starliner astronauts.

SpaceX's Crew-10 astronaut mission has arrived at the International Space Station, ending a 28-hour orbital chase. Crew-10 launched on Friday evening (March 14) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, sending four astronauts from three different nations toward the orbiting lab. Cr…

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SpaceX's Crew-10 mission is on its way to the ISS

SpaceX's Crew-10 mission has successfully launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:03PM Eastern on March 14. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov…

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A river ‘died’ overnight in Zambia after an acidic waste spill at a Chinese-owned mine.

Authorities and environmentalists in Zambia fear the long-term impact of an acid spill at a Chinese-owned mine that contaminated a major river and could potentially affect millions of people after signs of pollution were detected at least 100 kilometers (60 miles) downstrea…

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Starship, carrying Tesla's bot, set for Mars by end-2026.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk said on Friday 14th that Starship is set to depart for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Tesla, opens new tab humanoid bot Optimus.  Musk suggested in a post on X that human landings could begin as early as 2029, though 2031 was more likely if t…

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Tiny Mars moon Deimos gets a rare close-up, thanks to Europe's Hera asteroid probe.

Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars, receiving a crucial gravitational slingshot, testing some of its instruments, and gaining new images of Mars' little-seen moon Deimos, which could…

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Dead Athena moon lander seen inside its crater grave from lunar orbit.

We now have shots of the Athena moon lander's final resting place. Athena, the second lunar lander from Houston company Intuitive Machines, tipped over during its touchdown on March 6, ending up on its side within a small crater near the moon's south pole. This orient…

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'Blood Worm Moon' US weather forecast: Best places to see tonight's total lunar eclipse.

As far as viewing prospects for tonight's total eclipse of the moon are concerned, it would appear that three-quarters of the nation will have at least some occasional views of the moon plunging through Earth's dark shadow. The period of total eclipse will begin at …

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A total lunar eclipse comes to North America tonight: Here's everything you need to know about the 'Blood Worm Moon'

The moon will turn red tonight for skywatchers across the U.S., but to see this total lunar eclipse unfold, you need to be in the right place at the right time. The total lunar eclipse will happen overnight tonight (March 13-14) during March's full moon, with the maximum…

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SpaceX calls off Crew-10 astronaut launch for NASA due to hydraulics issue

SpaceX won't launch its next astronaut mission for NASA today (March 12) after all. The company had planned to send the four-person Crew-10 mission toward the International Space Station (ISS) atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida this evening at 7:…

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What will happen during the total lunar eclipse of March 2025 ?

More than two years have passed since most of North America saw a total lunar eclipse. So be sure to put a big circle on your calendar for Thursday, March 13. The viewing circumstances for the total eclipse of the full moon that night will be as good as it can get for much o…

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Watch the moon turn red during a total lunar eclipse in March.

A total lunar eclipse will flush the moon red Thursday night into Friday morning across the Western Hemisphere. The best views will be from North America and South America. Parts of Africa and Europe may catch a glimpse. Lunar eclipses happen when the moon, Earth and sun alig…

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NASA delays launch of newest space telescope to search for life’s key ingredients.

NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way, and a sun-focused mission called PUNCH, will have to wait a bit longer to lift off to space together, according to the space agency. Both missions were expected to lau…

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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape.

Spirals are a repeating theme in astronomy, with arguably the most famous example of a swirling armed structure being our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Now, using a powerful NASA supercomputer called "Pleiades," scientists have discovered yet another spiral structur…

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SpaceX rolls huge Super Heavy booster to pad ahead of Starship Flight 8 launch.

Starship hardware has made it to the pad ahead of a planned liftoff this week. SpaceX posted photos on X today (Feb. 25) showing Super Heavy, the giant first stage of its Starship megarocket, being lifted onto the orbital launch mount at its Starbase site in South Texas. The …

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See Mercury at its best in the night sky over the next 2 weeks.

We now have a fine opportunity to view the planet that many astronomy guide books refer to as the most difficult of the naked-eye planets to see. The planet in question is Mercury. Beginning now and running through the end of the second week of March, this somewhat overgrown…

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Private Blue Ghost moon lander captures amazing footage of Earth behind and lunar surface below.

Firefly Aerospace is primed for a lunar landing attempt on Sunday (March 2) following a series of successful maneuvers in lunar orbit. The company's Blue Ghost lander entered lunar orbit on Feb. 13, after launching atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 15. It has since b…

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Blue Origin launches 'Perfect 10' space tourists on New Shepard rocket.

Blue Origin launched its 10th space tourism mission this morning (Feb. 25), sending six paying passengers to suborbital space. After a slight delay due to a hold, Blue Origin's suborbital New Shepard vehicle lifted off from the company's West Texas site today at 10:5…

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Sun unleashes powerful X-class solar flare, triggers radio blackouts across Pacific Ocean

Sun unleashes powerful X-class solar flare, triggers radio blackouts across Pacific Ocean. The sun ended the weekend with a bang as a sunspot rotating out of our view erupted with a powerful solar flare on Sunday afternoon. At 2:27 p.m. EST (1927 GMT) on Sunday, (Feb. 24), a …

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SpaceX targeting Feb. 28 for next launch of Starship megarocket.

SpaceX's Starship megarocket will fly again this week, if all goes according to plan. The company is planning to launch Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, for the eighth time on Friday (Feb. 28), Elon Musk said via X yesterday (Feb. 23). The 403.5-…

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What makes Mars the 'Red' Planet ?

Mars is widely known for its iconic rusty red color — many people even refer to it as just the "Red Planet" — but new research suggests the Martian shade isn't just lovely to look at. The chemistry behind Mars' rosy hue may actually hold important informat…

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