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Beaver Moon lunar eclipse 2021: Amazing photos of the longest partial moon eclipse in 580 years

The moon, with a partial lunar eclipse, is seen behind the Statue of Freedom, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC early on November 19, 2021. Photographer Andrew Caballero-Reynolds captured this image for AFP via Getty Images.

NASA's huge James Webb Space Telescope is one month from launch

"We're going to look at everything there is in the universe that we can see," Webb senior project scientist John Mather told reporters in a press conference on Wednesday (Nov. 18).

Space station astronauts resume normal operations after Russian anti-satellite missile test

Astronauts at the International Space Station have returned to normal operations after a couple of adrenalin-filled days following a Russian anti-satellite missile test that threw an out-of-control cloud of space debris into the station's orbit.

Station resumes normal operations, but risk from Russian ASAT test continues

Spaceflight Now

Spaceflight Now

NASA says the debris field, which U.S. Space Command says numbers more than 1,500 trackable objects, will continue to pose a risk to the space station. But the most danger was in the first 24 hours after the anti-satellite test early Monday.

The Beaver Moon lunar eclipse won't be a true 'blood moon,' but it may look red. Here's why.

Lunar eclipses happen when the moon passes into the shadow of the Earth and is at least partially covered by our planet's shadow. At its peak, the Beaver Moon will be 97% covered by the Earth's shadow, and will be well into the deepest part of the shadow ( ...

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins will make a historic trip as the first Black woman on the space station crew

CNN

CNN

The other three crew members on the mission include NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren and Robert Hines, as well as the European Space Agency's Samantha Cristoforetti.

How ultracold, superdense atoms become invisible

An atom's electrons are arranged in energy shells. Like concertgoers in an arena, each electron occupies a single chair and cannot drop to a lower tier if all its chairs are occupied. This fundamental property of atomic physics is known as the Pauli ...

No transits of Proxima Centauri planets in high-cadence TESS data

TOI 1338 b is a circumbinary planet orbiting its two stars. It was discovered by TESS. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith. Our closest stellar neighbor is Proxima Centauri, an M-type (red dwarf) star located over 4.24 light-years ...

Watch Tonight's Partial Lunar Eclipse, the Longest in 580 Years

The New York Times

The New York Times

The full moon will dance into alignment with Earth and the sun. Earth's shadow will gradually shroud the visible lunar surface, then retreat to reveal normal moonlight, in a process that takes six hours and two minutes, to be exact, according to NASA.

Astra aims to reach orbit for 1st time with early Friday launch: Watch it live

The Bay Area startup plans to send its Launch Vehicle 0007 (LV0007) skyward from the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Alaska's Kodiak Island on Friday during a window that opens at midnight EST (0500 GMT; 8 p.m. local Alaska time on Nov. 18).