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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launched classified payloads for the U.S. Space Force on its fourth-ever mission on Nov. 1, 2022. Relive the highlights.

SpaceX rolled its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket to the launch pad on Monday (Oct. 31) ahead of a planned liftoff a day later.

NASA confirmed Nov. 1 that two astronauts from Saudi Arabia will go to the International Space Station on a private mission in the spring of 2023 operated by Axiom Space. The post Saudi astronauts to fly on Ax-2 mission ...

DARPA selected Spire Global to design a small satellite for an experiment to study high-frequency radio signals in the upper layers of the atmosphere. The post Spire selected to design satellite for DARPA experiment in v...

Edward Stone is retiring after 50 years as Project Scientist for the Voyager mission. The twin spacecraft revolutionized our understanding of our Solar System, and Stone was along for the ride every step of the way. Both...

Hyperspectral imaging startup Wyvern said Nov. 1 it secured $7 million in additional seed funds ahead of deploying its first satellites early next year. The post Wyvern raises $7 million for hyperspectral imaging constel...

Black holes have properties characteristic of quantum particles, a new study reveals, suggesting that the puzzling cosmic objects can be at the same time heavy and light.

Researchers from the CMU's Robotic Institute have developed a new method that allows rovers to autonomously weigh risk against the potential for scientific research. The post When Should Robots Take Risks Exploring Other...

November's full "Beaver Moon" will occur on Nov. 8 and will undergo a total lunar eclipse.

NASA says that SpaceX plans to resume its Starship test-flight program in December with an orbital try. But that's not confirmed yet.

On September 26, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft crashed into Dimorphos, a moonlet of the near-Earth asteroid Didymos, at 14,000 miles per hour. Prior to the impact, Southwest Research Institute...

Northrop Grumman selected Leidos to supply infrared sensor payloads for the U.S. Space Development Agency's missile-tracking satellite constellation in low Earth orbit. The post Leidos selected by Northrop Grumman to sup...

Opportunity also fondly known as 'Oppy' explored the Red Planet for more than 14 years.

A skyscraper-size asteroid will make a safe flyby our our planet today (Nov. 1) and it showed up on camera with the Virtual Telescope Project ahead of a live broadcast.

New evidence of an ancient ocean on Mars suggests excellent past conditions for the existence of life.

Roughly a half-century ago, astronomers realized that the powerful radio source coming from the center of our galaxy (Sagitarrius A*) was a "monster" black hole. Since then, they have found that supermassive black holes ...

SpaceX launched its mega Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in more than three years Tuesday, hoisting satellites for the military and then nailing side-by-side booster landings back near the pad.

Designed and delivered for the U.S. Space Force in just 15 months, the small satellite catapults the space industry into a new era of rapid R&D. The post Millennium Space’s Tetra-1 sets new fast-paced precedent for spa...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy lifted off Nov. 1 at 9:41 a.m. Eastern from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, carrying the U.S. Space Force USSF-44 mission to geostationary Earth orbit. The post SpaceX Falco...

A high-altitude scientific balloon containing 1.2-ton payloads was lifted into the sky and reached an altitude of 30km in a demonstration test that helped validate the payload capacity of a near-space balloon platform.

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A trio of researchers from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Universität Innsbruck and the University of Geneva, respectively, has discovered a "stripped, pulsating core of a massive star" for the first...