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Watch our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 5-3 mission at 2:43 a.m. EST (0743 GMT) on Feb. 2 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live …

Space.com

The Space Launch System megarocket aced its debut flight and appears ready to take the next big step.

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“It is essentially a meteoroid flux detector, although not intentionally,” Margaret Campbell-Brown, a meteor physicist at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, told Space.com. “Although, of course, we’re sad for them when their mirror gets hit by …

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NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and Japan’s Koichi Wakata will make the second spacewalk of 2023 on Thursday morning (Feb. 2), and you can watch the action live. The two International Space Station (ISS) astronauts are scheduled to switch their spacesuits …

Space.com

Mimas, the smallest and innermost of Saturn’s major moons, is believed to generate the right amount of heat to support a subsurface ocean of liquid water. And recent simulations of the moon’s Herschel impact basin …

CNN

A scan of the skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish has led to the discovery of the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain, shining a new light on the early evolution of bony fish.

Phys.Org

An international team of researchers looking for signs of intelligent life in space have used artificial intelligence (AI) to reveal eight promising radio signals in data collected at a U.S. observatory. The results of their research, published in …

Phys.Org

“Light is no exception: from sunlight to radio waves, it can mostly be described using classical physics,” said lead author Dr. Andrea Pizzi, who carried out the research while based at Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory.

CNET

As futuristic as this sounds, real estate in space is booming. Major corporations and science research organizations are actively vying to send satellites into orbit for extraordinary reasons — developing free internet connection; enhancing GPS …

Space.com

Being a fully computerized telescope, it’s ideal for those who want to jump straight into astronomy and see some amazing night sky targets. Thanks to the fully automated go-to mount, it’s well suited to newcomers and those wanting a hassle-free experience.