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Snoopy to fly on NASA's Artemis 1 mission in one-of-a-kind spacesuit

Snoopy is bound for the moon, again. The intrepid space explorer, who in 1969 became the world's first beagle to land on the lunar surface — at least in the Peanuts comic strips drawn by the late Charles M. Schulz — is set to fly for real aboard NASA's ...

SpaceX fires up Starship SN20 prototype in key 6-engine test (video)

SpaceX continues to prep its latest Starship prototype for a landmark orbital test flight. The Starship SN20 vehicle ignited all six of its Raptor engines in a brief "static fire" test today (Nov. 12) at Starbase, SpaceX's facility near the South Texas ...

SpaceX will launch 53 Starlink satellites Saturday after weather scrubs flight. How to watch live.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX will launch its first stack of Starlink broadband satellites since May from the East Coast Friday morning (Nov. 12) and you can watch the action live online.

The Sky This Week: Catch the century's longest partial lunar eclipse

Friday, November 12. The Leonid meteor shower is still several days from its peak on the 17th, but that date unfortunately coincides with a nearly Full Moon. That means the next few days are instead your best bet for spotting any meteors associated ...

'Snoopy in Space' season 2 blasts off on Apple TV Plus with 'The Search for Life'

What does the world's first beagle to land on the moon do for an encore? Explore the rest of the universe, of course. Snoopy, the Peanuts' comic strip character and long-standing NASA mascot, is back on Apple TV Plus for a second season of "Snoopy in ...

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Using the Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham in southern Arizona, astronomers analyzed the light reflections of the asteroid and found that the resulting spectrum closely matched those of lunar rocks from NASA's Apollo mission, indicating that Kamo` ...

Xist marks the spot: How an RNA molecule silences the X chromosome

Their findings, based on research on mouse stem cells, upend previous assumptions about how X inactivation is initiated in female embryos and could lead to new ways to treat some genetic disorders, as well as a better understanding of how genes on other ...

The cosmos beckons for Snoopy onscreen and in real life

PBS NewsHour

PBS NewsHour

NEW YORK (AP) — A new rocket designed to launch humans to the moon, Mars and beyond will launch next year from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On board, will be a familiar fuzzy figure — Snoopy. A 5-ounce plush toy version of the daydreaming beagle ...

An 'earthgrazer' flew 'a whopping 186 miles' over two states, then vanished, NASA says

A space object with an intimidating name—"earthgrazer"—zoomed over Georgia and Alabama this week, offering witnesses a glimpse of something rare, NASA says. "Earthgrazers" are fireball meteors with a trajectory so shallow that they skim long distances ...

Strong aurorae dazzle astronauts on space station

In late October, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an intense flare erupting from the Sun. A few days later, the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) saw what astronaut Thomas Pesquet called "the strongest auroras of the entire ...