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Two projects will look at the auroras of these distant giant planets to discover what processes make them tick. Comments (0). A view of Uranus in blue with auroras marked in reddish tones; Saturn is seen. (Main) Uranus as seen by Hubble with auroras …

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Launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a cosmonaut commander, a guest flier from Belarus and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson was aborted at the T-minus 20-second mark Thursday, delaying the crew’s planned flight to the International Space Station.

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When DART impacted Dimorphos on 26 September 2022, astronomers were able to measure how much the impact had nudged the asteroid by measuring how the space rock’s orbit around Didymos changed. Now …

Spaceflight Now

While this will be SpaceX’s 30th flight as part of NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program, it’s the first time a Dragon 2 spacecraft will launch to the International Space Station (ISS) from pad 40.

The New York Times

An archaeological site in Ethiopia revealed the oldest-known arrowheads and the remnants of a major volcanic eruption. Share full article.

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SpaceX will launch its 30th cargo mission to the International Space Station for NASA this afternoon (March 21), and you can watch it live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying an uncrewed Cargo Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to lift off today at 4:55 p.m. EDT …

CNN

The expanding bright blob (center) is an outburst from Comet 12P/Pons Brooks that occurred a day before the Lowell Discovery Telescope in Happy Jack, Arizona, captured this October 2023 image. Debris from the a large July 2023 outburst appears as a …

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Of the 15 states that will be touched by the moon’s dark umbral shadow on April 8, no state is perhaps more enthused at the prospect of hosting the total solar eclipse than New York. Indeed, this will be the first time in 99 years that the path of …

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“We’ll figure out what happened on both stages” during descent “and get back to flight, hopefully in about six weeks,” SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell said at the Satellite 2024 conference in Washington on Tuesday (March 19).

CNN

Projectile points found at the archaeological site, Shinfa-Metema 1, in the lowlands of northwest Ethiopia are some of the earliest evidence of archery in the archaeological record. Blue Nile Survey Project.