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Detecting life on the icy Saturn moon of Enceladus could be achieved without even landing on the moon, according to new research. But it wouldn’t be easy. A team of researchers has …

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A Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX will send an Israeli imaging Earth satellite into space overnight early Friday (Dec. 30), and you can watch online for free. Liftoff is set for 2:17 a.m. EST (11:17 p.m. PST on Dec. 29 or 0717 GMT) and coverage will be …

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Humans have been flinging things into deep space for 50 years now, since the 1972 launch of Pioneer 10. We now have five spacecraft that have either reached the edges of our solar system or are fast approaching it: Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, …

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The pictures record some of the ISS achievements during 2022 which include the deployment of tiny satellites caled cubesats over Earth and the testing of fluid dynamics in space. Related …

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Primary among these missions are the rovers Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012, and Perseverance which set down on the Martian surface in 2021. The latter of these has been collecting cores from rocks from the Jezero Crater where minuscule traces of …

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After days of clouds in Rome, the skies finally cleared for a “planet parade.” Virtual Telescope Project founder Gianluca Masi was at the ready with telescopes, cameras and broadcasting equipment to observe …

CNN

Stunning meteor showers, full moons and eclipses will light up the sky in 2023. The year is sure to be a sky-gazer’s delight with plenty of celestial events on the calendar. A comet …

Phys.Org

It’s slated to be a busy year of rocket launches from the Space Coast with a pace that could introduce some new names and set new records. Launch pads at both Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station have been hitting a pace of more …

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Microbes carried by laser-propelled sails could serve as interstellar probes that can build communications stations to phone home from Alpha Centauri, suggests a scientist known for wanting to resurrect extinct woolly mammoths and use DNA to detect …

Florida Today

After hosting 57 launches in 2022, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and Kennedy Space Center are gearing up for roughly just as many, if not more, missions this year. That pace eclipses not only 2021’s previous record of 31, but goes even beyond the …