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Watch our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 5-12 mission at 9:56 a.m. EDT (1356 UTC) on June 23 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Follow us on Twitter.

Space.com

New ultraviolet photos of Mars offer stunning views of the planet’s changing seasons. Astronomers using NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft photographed the Red Planet in July 2022, during the southern hemisphere’s summer …

Space.com

Earth is about to have a close encounter with a space rock. On Sunday (June 25), the near-Earth asteroid 2023 MU2 will pass within 134,000 miles (215,000 kilometers) of Earth, or just about 60% of the average distance from our planet to the moon.

Space.com

The sun-kissing spacecraft is definitely feeling the heat (but its science instruments, thankfully, are not). Comments (0). artist’s illustration of nasa’s parker solar probe observing the orange, highly active sun at close.

Scientific American

The person most likely to answer them may be Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University, who has been studying the galactic center for decades. In the 1980s he and his colleagues discovered the first …

NPR

A new study of astronaut blood finds that space travel alters gene expression in a way that impacts the immune system. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Astronauts must be in excellent health. They quarantine before blasting off. They live and work in a sterile …

Gizmodo

When stars die, they expel most of their material out into the cosmos in a remarkable explosion called a supernova. If the conditions are right, the supernova leaves a serene stellar nebula in its wake.

Smithsonian

Scientists suspected, based on past research about seabirds, that monarchs with dark wings would have the most successful flights. But their findings revealed the opposite. Among 400 photographed pairs of monarch butterfly wings that the …

Discover Magazine

These hypervelocity stars have an interesting history. Astronomers believe these stars probably started life as one half of a binary system with one star then being captured by the powerful gravitational field of the supermassive black hole at the center …

BBC News

What makes for a successful insect migration? For a monarch butterfly, the more white spots you have, the better your chances, new research suggests. Researchers from the University of Georgia studied nearly 400 wings of monarchs at different stages in …