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The extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, in focus is Beta Pictoris b, a world located around 64 light-years away with a mass close to 12 times that of Jupiter. Beta Pictoris b’s footage was created by scientists who condensed videos created with real datasets …

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meteors streak through a star filled sky above mountains and small wooden lodges. Perseid meteor shower captured in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Alps in 2018. (Image credit: …

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A Russian cosmonaut completed the first test flight at the end of a robotic arm as part of a successful spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday (Aug. 9). Expedition 69 commander Sergey Prokopyev rode at the end of the European …

CNN

A close-up shot reveals the details of the ancient moss Takakia growing on the Tibetan Plateau. Prof. Xuedong Li. Editor’s Note: Sign up …

CNN

The uncrewed spacecraft is set to lift off this week from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Oblast, Russia. Hitching a ride aboard a Soyuz-2 Fregat rocket, Luna 25 is expected to take flight at 8:10 a.m. local time Friday, or 7:10 p.m. ET Thursday.

The New York Times

A view looking down into a large room containing a large circular particle accelerator and loads. The Muon g-2 ring at the Fermilab particle accelerator complex in Batavia, Ill.

Space.com

SpaceX plans to launch 22 more of its Starlink internet satellites tonight (Aug. 10), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station …

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Russia plans to launch its first moon mission in nearly half a century today (Aug. 10), and you can watch the historic event live. The Luna 25 moon lander is scheduled to lift off atop a Soyuz rocket from Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East …

BBC News

Scientists near Chicago say they may be getting closer to discovering the existence of a new force of nature. They have found more evidence that sub-atomic particles, called muons, are not behaving in the way predicted by the current theory of …

Spaceflight Now

SpaceX is getting ready to launch another 22 second-generation Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on Thursday atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff from pad 40 is scheduled for 9:55 p.m. EDT (0155 UTC). The first stage booster, tailnumber B1069, …