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Spaceflight Now

The first test flight of ABL Space Systems’ new small satellite launcher from Alaska has been delayed until no earlier than December after technical issues cut short three launch attempts in the last week. ABL conducted three countdowns during a …

Space.com

The moon looks spectacular in images captured by NASA’s Orion spacecraft as it cruised just 81.1 miles (130 kilometers) above the lunar surface during the Artemis 1 mission’s closest approach to Earth’s natural satellite on Monday (Nov. 21).

Spaceflight Now

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION. NASA’s Orion spacecraft, pictured by a solar array wingtip camera, with the moon in the background. Credit: NASA. NASA’s unpiloted Orion moonship, sailing smoothly toward a remote lunar orbit after a …

Space.com

Jay Pasachoff, an astronomer who traveled the globe for over 50 years to witness 74 solar eclipses and was one of the world’s leading experts in these sky sights, has died at the age of 79. Pasachoff, the Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy and …

The Washington Post

On the floor of a shallow crater on Mars, the NASA rover Perseverance has hit what scientists are hoping is pay dirt. Martian rocks excavated by the rover show signs of a watery past and are loaded with the kind of organic molecules that are the …

Phys.Org

The James Webb Space Telescope unveiled its latest image of celestial majesty on Wednesday, an ethereal hourglass of orange and blue dust being shot out from a newly forming star at its center. The colorful clouds are only visible in infrared light, …

Phys.Org

Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new ultra-short-period exoplanet. The newfound alien world, designated HD 20329 b, orbits its host star in slightly less than one day.

Reuters

The researchers studied an exotic object called a blazar at the center of a large elliptical galaxy named Markarian 501 located about 460 million light years away from Earth in the direction of the constellation Hercules. A light year is the distance light …

BBC News

‘Amazing discoveries’. WASP-39b is an exoplanet – a planet that lies outside our solar system – 700 light years away from Earth. It is …

U.S. News & World Report

Using data from the recently deployed Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) orbiting observatory, researchers on Wednesday offered an explanation for how these jets become so luminous: subatomic particles called electrons becoming energized by shock …