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Space.com

From eye safety to backcountry travel, here’s how to stay out of harm’s way during the upcoming ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse. Comments (0). our tips for safely viewing the oct. 14 annular solar eclipse. Including using solar.

Space.com

illustration of a spacecraft flying over a large asteroid with the blackness of space in the. Artist’s concept illustration depicting the spacecraft of NASA’s Psyche mission near the mission’s target, the metal asteroid …

Space.com

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 22 Starlink satellites from Florida’s Space Coast this evening (Sept. 29), and you can watch the action live. The Falcon 9 is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 6:39 p.m. EDT …

Space.com

For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the faint glow of the diffuse cosmic web that stretches throughout the known the universe. Comments (0). Astronomers announced on Thursday (Sept. 28) that they had for the first time captured the …

USA TODAY

The legendary guitarist recently put his doctorate in astrophysics to use to help NASA return its first-ever asteroid sample to Earth. The sample was taken from the asteroid Bennu. Eric Lagatta. USA TODAY. 0:00. 1:24. When he’s not rocking out on stage …

Scientific American

If the moon orbited in the same plane as Earth orbits the sun, we’d get a solar eclipse every 29 days—the length of time it takes the moon to move around our planet, relative to the sun. But the moon’s orbit is actually tipped, inclined by about five …

Spaceflight Now

A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled for launch tonight on another mission to deliver satellites into orbit for SpaceX’s Starlink internet service. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is planned for 6:39 p.m. EDT (2239 UTC).

Scientific American

But one major aspect of trilobites’ ecology that had long eluded researchers was their diet. Even the best-preserved trilobite fossils, which possess the ghostly imprint of a fossilized digestive tract, revealed frustratingly little about these critters’ …

PRNewswire

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Media accreditation is open for SpaceX’s 29th commercial resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station. Liftoff of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket is targeted …

The Planetary Society

Total solar eclipses generate a lot of excitement, and for good reason. Being in the path of totality is undeniably an amazing experience. But that doesn’t mean it’s the only way to enjoy an eclipse. Witnessing a partial solar eclipse is an …