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Spaceflight Now

SpaceX launched an all-new Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo capsule Saturday from Kennedy Space Center on mission to deliver new roll-out solar arrays, belated Thanksgiving treats, CubeSats, and a cornucopia of experiments to the International Space …

Spaceflight Now

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Falcon 9 rocket will launch SpaceX’s 26th resupply mission to the International Space Station.

Space.com

A shoebox-sized spacecraft that launched on NASA’s Artemis 1 mission is all set to begin its deep-space biology experiment after making a flyby of the moon. NASA’s BioSentinel is one of 10 ride-along cubesats that lifted off on the Artemis 1 mission on …

EarthSky

It is 700 light-years away. While WASP-39b isn’t a habitable world, the results do show the great detail with which Webb will be able to study the atmospheres of many other exoplanets, including potentially habitable rocky ones like Earth.

The Washington Post

That orbit will place Orion on a path to break the record for the farthest distance from Earth traveled by “a spacecraft designed to carry humans to deep space and safely return to Earth.” The current record of 248,655 miles was set by Apollo 13 in 1970, …

Mashable

In a historic launch, NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket blasted a spacecraft to the moon on Nov. 16, becoming the most powerful operational rocket around today. Its boosters create significantly more thrust than the legendary Saturn V rocket, …

The Washington Post

Our reddish neighbor gets within about 50 million miles of Earth on Dec. 1, according to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, and a week later, on Dec. 8, Mars will be opposite the sun from our earthly perspective, according to the U.S. Naval …

Phys.Org

Artist’s impression of an individual 525-million-year-old Cardiodictyon catenulum on the shallow coastal sea floor, emerging from the shelter of a small stromatolite built by photosynthetic bacteria. Credit: Nicholas Strausfeld/University of Arizona.

KJZZ

But a University of Arizona-led paper in the journal Science on the oldest known fossilized brain offers clues to the brain’s origins in modern arthropods — and, by extension, humans. Studying the noggins of …

European Space Agency

The European Service Module is powering Orion to the Moon and back, providing electricity, propulsion, keeping electronics and the crew module at the right temperature and, on the next Artemis missions, will provide water and air for astronauts.