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Space.com

Polaris Dawn just made history again. SpaceX’s private crew of four astronauts performed the world’s first commercial spacewalk while soaring high above Earth on Thursday (Sept. 12) during the third day of a five-day trip to Earth orbit.

Spaceflight Now

An artist’s impression of a Polaris Dawn astronaut flowing just outside the Crew Dragon capsule in the first commercial spacewalk. Graphic: SpaceX. Billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX crew trainer Sarah Gillis prepared to open the forward hatch of …

CBS News

With crewmates Anna Menon and Scott Poteet monitoring safety tethers and umbilicals inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, Isaacman and Gillis plan to float out into open space after depressurizing the spacecraft around 2:23 a.m. EDT, using a scaffold-like …

The New York Times

The theory was that people adopt conspiracy theories to sate an underlying need to explain and control their environment, said Thomas Costello, another author of the study and assistant professor of psychology at American University. But …

CNN

Astronomers have captured a sequence of images of a nearby star that track the motion of bubbling gas on its surface. ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/W. Vlemmings et al.

Space.com

Astronomers have gotten the first-ever detailed views of turbulent activity in a star other than our own sun. A time-lapse video released Wednesday (Sept. 11) shows enormous gas bubbles roiling on a nearby star called R Doradus, a red giant about 300 …

The New York Times

A view of the skywalker portion of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule with the Earth bright. The Polaris Dawn Skywalker platform on Wednesday, from a video posted on the social media site X.

Space.com

Saturday, Sept. 14 marks NASA’s annual Observe the Moon Night, a worldwide event to promote lunar science and astronomy, celebrate cultural connections to the moon, and promote amateur lunar observations. On the day, NASA will be hosting a broadcast …

BBC News

Ryan Imperio has been named the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year for a photograph that captures the progression of Baily’s beads during the 2023 annular eclipse. Baily’s beads are formed when sunlight shines through the …

BBC News

The landslide – a mountainside of rock that collapsed and carried glacial ice with it – triggered a 200m wave. That wave was then “trapped” in the narrow fjord – moving back and forth for nine …