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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch for a record-tying 22nd time on Sunday night (Aug. 11), sending aloft two satellites that will provide broadband coverage in the Arctic region.

Astronomers learn about the universe by pointing their telescopes to the sky. But what happens when a satellite comes between them and the cosmological objects they hope to study?

Each satellite carries multiple payloads, including the U.S. military's Enhanced Polar System-Recapitalization (EPS-R) The post SpaceX launches two satellites for Arctic broadband mission appeared first on SpaceNews.

SpaceX plans to make more spaceflight history late this year, by launching the first crewed mission to explore Earth's polar regions.

The sun's stormy weather is supercharging auroras on Earth this week, due to a series of intense geomagnetic storms triggered by recent solar flares.

Axiom Space's next astronaut mission will be delayed due to the approval process required for International Space Station crews, according to NASA.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a phenomenon for the very first time. The bright red streaks at top left of this June 20, 2024, image are aligned protostar outflows--jets of gas from newborn stars that all...

Satellite data has helped scientists to begin tracking a key air pollutant previously absent from a national database, marking a crucial step forward in monitoring differences in air quality across the U.S. and identifyi...

The next full moon is a supermoon, a blue moon; the sturgeon moon; the red, corn, green corn, barley, herb, grain, or dog moon; Raksha Bandhan or Rakhi Purnima; and Tu B'Av.

Astronauts on China's Tiangong space station recently reenacted some of the sports that athletes of the just-completed 2024 Paris Olympics competed in here on Earth.

Using seismic activity to probe the interior of Mars, geophysicists have found evidence for a large underground reservoir of liquid water--enough to fill oceans on the planet's surface.

Solar storms persisting from the weekend may produce faint colorful auroras across the Northern Hemisphere, with little disruption to power and communications, space forecasters said Monday.

The Dutch Black Hole Consortium has launched an eight-language version of the BlackHoleFinder app that citizens all over the world can use to help identify newly formed black holes. Previously, the app was only available...

From 17th century vessels to relics from WWII, here are four shipwrecks you can visit.

Lionsgate and Gearbox's long-awaited Borderlands movie is a dreary mess that lacks almost everything that made the source material pop.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a phenomenon for the very first time. The bright red streaks at top left of this June 20, 2024, image are aligned protostar outflows - jets of gas from newborn stars that al...

We may be already seeing the makings of next solar cycle, peeking out through the current one. The post The Next Solar Cycle Has Started… But the Current One Hasn’t Finished Yet appeared first on Universe Today.

"Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact." This quote, attributed to Isaac Asimov, captures science's intricate relationship with science fiction. And it is hardly a one-way relationship.

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanets with extremely small orbits around their stars. But what about exoplanets that get close enough to be devoured by their star, and what if it's an Earth-sized exoplan...

The Blade Runner universe is expanding once again after animated and comic book entries. Blade Runner 2099 is Prime Video's next big sci-fi bet.

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has kicked off its annual fall balloon campaign at the agency's balloon launch facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Eight balloon flights carrying scientific experiments and technology d...

Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 9, 2024 The focus for this three-sol weekend plan is delivering a portion of the Kings Canyon drill sample to SAM for Evolved Gas Analysis (EGA), following on from a successful CheMin an...