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SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas — We’ll all have to wait a little longer to see the most powerful rocket ever built take flight for the first time. SpaceX had planned to launch …

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Get ready for a rare celestial spectacle Down Under. … This month will see the first of two solar eclipses in this year of 2023. But this upcoming eclipse will be a rather special kind of eclipse. When speaking of eclipses of the sun, there are three basic …

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The new map, created by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, has helped confirm a theory of gravity pioneered by Albert Einstein over a century ago.

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Amateur and professional astronomers alike came together on Friday, April 13 to capture the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft as it headed away from Earth on its eight-year trip to Jupiter.

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A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 of SpaceX’s new Starlink “V2 mini” satellites will take off at 8:27 a.m. ET (1227 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

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We won’t be around to watch our Milky Way galaxy fuse with its closest neighbor, Andromeda, a few billion years from now. But we’re getting a spectacular front-row seat to another galactic merger, thanks to NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope …

NPR

The commercial spaceflight company SpaceX scrapped its first scheduled test flight of Starship, a huge, stainless-steel rocket that could one day carry humans to the moon, Mars and beyond. The first launch attempt was set to take place in South Texas …

WIRED

In the early 2000s, Phil Plait wrote his first book, Bad Astronomy, which debunked conspiracy theories and fallacies, like the idea that NASA faked the moon landings in the 1970s or that planetary alignments can affect life on Earth.

Phys.Org

A planned liftoff Monday of the gigantic rocket was called off less than 10 minutes ahead of the scheduled launch because of a pressurization issue in the first-stage booster, SpaceX said. The private space company …

Phys.Org

A team of scientists led by Slava Turyshev of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, which launched the Voyager satellites back in 1977, is anxious to get space exploration back on track. The team proposes a novel means of …