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Bad weather forces 24-hour delay for SpaceX launch of Arabsat satellite

SpaceX scrubbed a launch attempt early Wednesday at Cape Canaveral due to bad weather, delaying until late Wednesday night the liftoff of an Airbus-built communications satellite for Arabsat. The Falcon 9 has a launch window of nearly two hours opening ...

Sending astronauts to Mars by 2040 is 'an audacious goal' but NASA is trying anyway

Astronauts may orbit Mars by 2033, but setting foot on the Red Planet by the end of next decade would be an "aggressive" and "audacious" goal, according to NASA officials. To make the 6-month flight to Mars and land by 2040, humans would have to leave ...

Watch the moon snuggle up to Earth's 'evil twin' Venus today with free livestream

Of course, despite making a close approach in the sky over Earth, the moon and Venus remain fairly widely separated in the actual solar system. And this is probably a good thing.

Gravitational-Wave Search Resumes after Three Years and Lots of Headaches

Scientific American

Scientific American

At least a few will come instead from seismic crashes between two neutron stars (or between a neutron star and a black hole) that release not only gobs of gravitational waves but also conspicuous amounts of light—kilonovae.

Jupiter's lightning is strikingly similar to Earth's

Lightning crackles to life and evolves on Jupiter the same way as it does on Earth, a new study finds. Jovian lightning, which occurs as frequently as the phenomenon does on Earth, was first spotted by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft over 40 years ago.

Russian supply ship set for launch to International Space Station

Russian ground teams at Baikonur rolled the Progress MS-23 spacecraft and its Soyuz rocket to the launch pad Sunday, then raised the launcher vertical for final mission preparations. The Soyuz launch planned to load kerosene ...

Watch Russian cargo craft launch toward space station Wednesday morning

A robotic Russian cargo craft will launch toward the International Space Station on Wednesday (May 24), and you can watch the liftoff live. The Progress 84 freighter is scheduled to launch atop a Soyuz rocket from the Russia-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in ...

Hubble Space Telescope reveals a rare black hole lurking in our cosmic backyard (video)

A rare midsize black hole may be lurking at the center of a star party just 6,000 light-years away. Astronomers have found a very tiny region jam-packed with the mass of 800 suns that is creating chaos among nearby stars, all of which points toward an ...

Moon crash site found! NASA orbiter spots grave of private Japanese lander (photos)

Close-up of part of the moon's gray, cratered surface captured by NASA's Lunar. The Hakuto-R private Japanese moon lander's impact site, as seen by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...

See amazing new sun photos from the world's largest solar telescope

The world's largest solar telescope has captured fine features on the sun in remarkable detail, including rare glimpses of decaying sunspots. Perched atop a mountain on the Hawaiian island of Maui, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) has been ...