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Space.com

Rocket fans, rejoice! If you’re a fan of spaceflight, then Thursday (Aug. 4) will be a banner day with no less than four different rockets launching missions off planet Earth. Rockets built by Rocket Lab, the United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin and …

Space.com

SLS is untested in space and Orion will launch on its second-ever flight, so administrator Bill Nelson told reporters what firsts that the system will endure on a roughly 40-day mission meant to be even harder than what humans would face.

Space.com

SpaceX will launch South Korea’s 1st moon mission today: Watch live … The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter is set to launch at 7:08 p.m. ET Thursday (Aug. 4) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Spaceflight Now

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida with the Korea Lunar Pathfinder Orbiter mission. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live …

CNN

A pile of ribs, broken cranial bones, a molar, bone fragments and stone cobbles were discovered during an excavation of a site where maammoths were butchered. Timothy Rowe/The University of Texas at …

The New York Times

The James Webb Space Telescope recorded new images of the Cartwheel galaxy. This one is a composite made with two tools, the Near-Infrared Camera and the Mid-Infrared Instrument.Credit…Space Telescope Science Institute NASA, ESA, CSA,.

Symmetry magazine

Of all the known elementary particles, neutrinos probably give physicists the most headaches. These tiny fundamental bits of matter are the second most common particle in the universe yet are anything but ordinary. Since their discovery, they have …

Space.com

“Because of the full moon on the night of their peak, we will run this live feed two days earlier, so our satellite will be below the horizon, with still a very good number of meteors!” Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project wrote.

Spaceflight Now

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The mission will launch the U.S. Space Force’s SBIRS GEO 6 missile warning satellite toward …

Livescience.com

For the first time, scientists have created mouse embryos in the lab without using any eggs or sperm and watched them grow outside the womb. To achieve this feat, the researchers used only stem cells and a spinning device filled with shiny glass vials.