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Spaceflight Now

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The Falcon 9 rocket will launch Intelsat’s Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 geostationary communications …

Astronomy Magazine

The Drake equation is an attempt to quantify the total number of technological civilizations that might currently exist in the cosmos. To do this, the equation factors in astronomical, biological, psychological, and technological elements.

CNET

By combining infrared data from the JWST and X-ray data from Chandra, NASA is starting to create a textured picture of our universe. NASA/CXC/SAO/ESA/CSA/STScI.

Phys.Org

Nearly half the stars in our galaxy are solitary like the sun. The other half comprises stars that circle other stars, in pairs and multiples, with orbits so tight that some stellar systems could fit between Earth and the moon.

CNN

A NASA spacecraft recently flew by Jupiter’s moon Europa, and one of its cameras spied fascinating features on the icy crust of the ocean world. The Juno spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, …

Phys.Org

Imagine two people walking through a mostly empty room towards each other then shaking hands. “That’s how a classical chemical reaction is done,” said Benjamin Schumann, a chemist at Imperial College London.

The Planetary Society

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) made its last flight on Sept. 30, 2022. Astronomer Margaret Meixner was on board as the huge telescope built into a 747 aircraft ended its observations of the universe.

The Weather Channel

It has been almost a fortnight since NASA’s doomsday-deterrent DART mission set out to kamikaze against the Dimorphos asteroid, and scientists are on the edge of their seats to monitor its aftermath. While too early to ascertain whether the mission was …

Phys.Org

In Hunan province in South China, scientists have been digging up fossils for many years at a limestone-rich site called Wangcun Lagerstätte—among those fossils found have been a large number of Markuelia hunanensis embryos, all dating back to the Cambrian …

Phys.Org

The four-person crew from NASA, Japan and Russia hitched a ride in the Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket that lifted off from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A just after noon.