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James Webb Space Telescope spies massive shockwave and baby dwarf galaxy in Stephan's Quintet

Shockwaves created by a collision between the galaxies of Stephan's Quintet and an intruder galaxy are driving strange processes in the intergalactic medium, the tenuous clouds of warm-to-hot hydrogen plasma that exist in the space between galaxies.

A dead NASA satellite from the 1980s just fell to Earth to meet its fiery demise

A vintage NASA satellite launched in the 1980s and long-since turned to space junk met a fiery fate late Sunday as it fell back to Earth, NASA said today. The huge Earth observation satellite, called the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS), ...

Watch live: SpaceX set for launch from Florida; California launch delayed

Spaceflight Now

Spaceflight Now

Watch our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:50 p.m. EST (0450 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, with 40 OneWeb internet satellites. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live ...

SpaceX gearing up for 5th Falcon Heavy launch (photos)

SpaceX's powerful Falcon Heavy rocket is getting ready to fly again. The Falcon Heavy has launched four times to date, most recently on Nov. 1, 2022. That flight, for the U.S. Space Force, was the first in 40 months for the heavy lifter.

Huge solar flare erupts on the sun from 'hyperactive' sunspot

A massive explosion on the sun unleashed a powerful solar flare from a new sunspot on Monday (Jan. 9), one that is slowly turning to face the Earth. The solar flare erupted at 1:50 p.m. EST (1850 GMT) as a X1.9-class sun storm that caused a temporary, ...

All systems go for Virgin Orbit's first UK launch, a historic 1st for Europe

NEWQUAY, U.K. — A giant leap for the U.K. space sector is set to take place tonight, Monday (Jan. 9), as Virgin Orbit readies for its first-ever launch from Britain, and from Europe. The launch, which could still be hampered by bad weather or technical ...

China's 1st Mars rover and Tianwen 1 orbiter may have gone silent: report

Something may have gone very wrong for China's first-ever Mars mission. China launched Tianwen 1 in July 2020 and the mission's rover, named Zhurong, touched down on the Red Planet in May 2021. The duo explored Mars smoothly until May 2022, ...

2023 Celestial Events Highlighted By Eclipses, Full Moons, Meteor Showers

The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel

The first full moon of the year rises behind the 15 July Martyrs bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. The first full moon of the 2023 is also known as the "wolf moon." (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel) ...

Orion back at Kennedy Space Center so NASA can dissect Artemis I mission

The most human-looking of the three, named Commander Moonikin Campos in deference to the late Arturo Campos who helped NASA bring the Apollo 13 crew safely back to Earth, was joined by two partial-body mannequins named Zohar and Helga.

NASA's retired Compton mission reveals superheavy neutron stars

Astronomers studying archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have detected light patterns indicating the brief existence of a superheavy neutron star shortly before it collapsed into a black hole.