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Space.com

A double quasar spiraling toward a great merger has been discovered lighting up the “cosmic dawn,” just 900 million years after the Big Bang. They are the first quasar pair spotted that far …

Space.com

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES-R series constellation is expected to be complete in space soon, pending a successful launch of its GOES-U satellite at the end of June. The mission will be historic for many reasons, …

The Washington Post

Edward C. Stone, who opened a window into the farthest reaches of the solar system while serving as the chief scientist of NASA’s Voyager mission, supervising a pair of spindly, plutonium-powered spacecraft that continue to operate billions of miles …

Space.com

NASA has picked a new date for the spacewalk that was postponed last weekend due to “spacesuit discomfort.” NASA astronauts Tracy Dyson and Matt Dominick were set to perform the International Space Station’s (ISS) 90th extravehicular activity (EVA 90) …

Spaceflight Now

SpaceX is preparing to launch a satellite to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) on behalf of one of its oldest customers: Luxembourg-based SES. The prolific launch company aims to bounce back from an unusually quiet period in its launch cadence, …

Space.com

NASA will talk about the delayed return to Earth of Boeing’s Starliner capsule during a press conference today (June 18), and you can listen to it live. NASA and Boeing representatives will discuss the progress of Starliner’s mission at the …

Space.com

Liftoff of the SES Astra 1P mission is scheduled for 5:35 p.m. ET today (June 18).

Space.com

In July 1504, astronomers in China documented a “guest star” in the sky that shone as brightly as Jupiter for nearly a month before gradually fading into invisibility. That “star” was …

Phys.Org

In late 2019, the previously unremarkable galaxy SDSS1335+0728 suddenly started shining brighter than ever before. To understand why, astronomers have used data from several space and ground-based observatories, including the European Southern …

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – At the center of the Milky Way galaxy resides a supermassive black hole four million times the mass of our sun called Sagittarius A* that some scientists have called a gentle giant because of its quiescence. But someday it could …