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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 50 satellites to orbit for Starlink megaconstellation, BlackSky

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX just launched the first of four planned Falcon 9 rocket launches this month, with its workhorse rocket carrying a stack of 48 Starlink satellites and two BlackSky Earth observation satellites into orbit, before sticking a ...

Newfound rocky exoplanet has a year less than 8 hours long

A newfound alien world could shed some light on one of the darkest and strangest corners of the exoplanet family tree. The planet, known as GJ 367b, circles a small, dim red dwarf star just 31 light-years from the sun, its discoverers announced in a ...

Arianespace will launch two European navigation satellites on a Soyuz rocket tonight. Watch it live.

Arianespace plans to send two new European Galileo navigation satellites to space tonight (Dec. 2) and you will be able to watch it live online. An Arianespace Soyuz rocket will launch two navigation satellites into orbit at 7:27 p.m. EST (9:27 p.m. ...

SpaceX to launch its next Starlink fleet and 2 BlackSky satellites tonight. Watch it live!

The frequent flier is scheduled to blast off at 6:12 p.m. EST (2312 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Tucked inside the payload fairing will also be two small Earth observation satellites for BlackSky.

SpaceX aces 27th Falcon 9 rocket flight of the year, a new record

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SpaceX set a new record Thursday for the most missions by the company's Falcon rocket family in a year, successfully sending a cargo of 48 Starlink internet satellites and two BlackSky optical Earth-imaging spacecraft into orbit from Cape Canaveral.

Total solar eclipse 2021: When, where and how to see it on Dec. 4

The best visibility for this eclipse is from Antarctica and surrounding waters, although some partial phases are visible in regions such as Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and South Africa. After 2021 eclipse concludes ...

NASA astronauts on spacewalk replace faulty antenna outside space station

Expedition 66 crewmates Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron completed the 6-hour, 32-minute extravehicular activity (EVA) on Thursday, Dec. 2, having installed a spare S-band Antenna Subassembly (SASA) on the station's backbone truss in place of a degraded unit ...

The bright Comet Leonard will pass a brilliant star cluster tonight and you can watch it live here

A live webcast will track a newly found comet as it passes by a dense collection of stars visible in Earth's sky. The bright Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard), also known as Comet Leonard, will fly by the globular cluster Messier 3 in Canes Venatici on tonight ...

A year on this exoplanet only lasts about 8 hours

(CNN) If you think there aren't enough hours in the day on Earth, this newly discovered planet will make your head spin. On an exoplanet called GJ 367 b that's orbiting a star 31 light-years away from our sun, a year only lasts for about eight hours.

NASA is about to launch a laser demo that could revolutionize space communication

(CNN) The use of invisible lasers in space may sound like something from science fiction, but it's real. NASA's upcoming Laser Communications Relay Demonstration could revolutionize the way the agency communicates with future missions across the solar ...