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A simple journey can take many steps, and on Monday (Nov. 11), skywatchers will be paying attention to the several stages to occur as the smallest planet in the solar system passes in front of the sun.

SpaceX is planning to launch the second installment of its Starlink megaconstellation on Monday (Nov. 11), and astronomers are waiting to see -- well, precisely what they will see.

There may be a way of sneaking a peak at Schrödinger's cat -- the famous feline-based thought experiment that describes the mysterious behavior of subatomic particles -- without permanently killing the (hypothetical) an...

The Russian company that markets launch vehicles commercially says it doesn't expect the new Soyuz-5 medium-lift rocket to be available until the mid-2020s, despite leveraging existing designs and facilities. SpaceNews.c...

A critical milestone for commercial crew, resupply spacecraft delivers to the space station, and a new wide-eyed view of the southern sky ... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA....

On Monday, Nov. 11, 20199, Mercury will appear to pass across the disk of the sun as seen from Earth. This event -- which astronomers call a transit -- helped early astronomers measure distances in the solar system.

Image: Last week marked a milestone for ESA's Proba-2 satellite: 10 years of operation in orbit around the Earth. Since its launch on 2 November 2009, Proba-2 (PRoject for OnBoard Autonomy) has probed the intricacies of ...