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SpaceX plans to launch 21 of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Tuesday (Aug. 22), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on …

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The mobile launch platform (MLP) responsible for transporting and supporting NASA’s Artemis moon rockets was just rolled to the pad for testing. The 380-foot-tall (115 meters) tower connects to NASA’s Space Launch System megarocket (SLS), …

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Veteran NASA astrobiologist and Hollywood space expert Kevin Hand discusses working on Apple TV+’s sci-fi epic. Comments (0). a woman stares at a hologram of a galaxy floating in front of her. (Image credit: Apple TV+).

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Detecting neutrino interactions would open the door to strange new physics beyond the Standard Model. Comments (0). a huge exploding mass of light. An artist’s impression of a supernova, which can produce a huge amount of neutrinos.

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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule Endurance has made it to the launch pad ahead of next week’s planned astronaut liftoff. Endurance just arrived at Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, SpaceX announced via X (formerly Twitter) on …

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That X post features a 31-second video, which stitches together a number of images captured yesterday by Chandrayaan-3’s landing module. Most of those photos show the lunar surface; ISRO labels a few of the many craters passing underneath the probe, …

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The waxing crescent moon will make a close approach to the Red Planet through the day as the weekend approaches. Comments (0). night sky august 2023. An illustration of the night sky on Aug. 18, 2023 showing the moon and Mars making a close approach to …

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A dense grouping of stars shines brightly in a new infrared image from the European Southern Observatory. Comments (0). A massive glob of stars. The globular cluster NGC 6723 is located about 28,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation …

EarthSky

Surf’s up! Surfing on the ocean is fun, but would you like to try it on … a star? On August 10, 2023, researchers announced that a huge heartbeat star has “tidal waves” on its surface as tall as three suns on top of each other.

Scientific American

“Obviously the Soviet Union and Russia have a very rich space exploration history, so they had, at one point in time, the technical ability, acumen and industry to be a great space power. But …