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Want to use the James Webb Space Telescope? Here's how scientists book time with the giant observatory.

And any data, from any instrument, is crucial to astronomers. "As an observational astronomer, I kind of live or die by what telescope time I get," Larissa Markwardt, a Ph.D. student in astronomy at the University of Michigan, told Space.com. "It's ...

Watch Russia launch a fresh cargo ship to the International Space Station today

A Soyuz rocket from the Russian space agency Roscosmos is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:25 p.m. EST Monday (0425 GMT or 9:25 a.m. local time on Tuesday, Feb. 15).

The out-of-control rocket about to hit the moon is not a SpaceX Falcon 9, astronomers now say: report

If you spot the booster in a telescope before it hits the moon, let us know! Send images and comments in to spacephotos@space.com. A rocket stage set to hit the ...

Moon-crashing SpaceX rocket will create new crater – here's what we should worry about

Since February 2015, the 14 meters long, derelict Falcon 9 upper stage, massing nearly 4 metric tons, has therefore been in a wide orbit about the Earth. Its precise movements have been hard to predict, because they were influenced by lunar and solar ...

Astronomers Discover New Planet Orbiting Sun's Closest Star

The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel

Proxima Centauri is located over four light-years away. The newly discovered planet, named Proxima d, orbits Proxima Centauri at a distance of about four million kilometres, less than a tenth of Mercury's distance from the Sun.

Solar Storm Knocks 40 SpaceX Satellites Out of Orbit

Smithsonian

Smithsonian

As part of SpaceX's mission to provide high-speed internet from space, the company has put almost 2,000 Starlink satellites into low-earth orbit in recent years. But the latest launch on February 3 sent a batch of 49 satellites straight into a solar ...

Outside Magazine

How Thru-Hiking the AT Affected My Body Image

Outside Magazine

It seemed that no hiker could finish a trail without posting two photos side by side: a picture of themselves before their hike next to a photo of themselves thousands of miles later—tanner, more worn, and usually significantly skinnier.

A rocket is still set to slam into the Moon next month — but it may not be from SpaceX after all

The Verge

The Verge

He says the object was first picked up by the Catalina Sky Survey, a program that uses telescopes near Tucson, Arizona to scan the sky for potentially dangerous asteroids that could pose a threat to Earth. When ...

Living peacefully with coyotes means respecting their boundaries

My understanding comes from many places: being a care-giver to orphaned coyote pups, studying the development of coyote play and communication, helping trap and radio-collar them, supervising multiple theses and, most recently, monitoring a multi- ...

Musk shows how they're planning to catch SuperHeavy boosters

So for its SuperHeavy Booster, designed to launch its Starship craft into orbit, SpaceX has to develop a new way of capturing the rockets without damaging them. Its head, Elon Musk, has shared a Twitter video showing how it will do just that.