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CBS News

Soyuz MS-25/71S commander Oleg Novitskiy, Belarus guest cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya and NASA veteran Tracy Dyson thundered away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 8:36 a.m. EDT (5:36 p.m. local time) and slipped into orbit eight minutes and 45 seconds later …

Space.com

1. Coronal mass ejection · 2. Solar flares · 3. “Giant eruptive prominences” · Extending totality to view more eruptions.

Space.com

Saturday, March 7, 1970, in Perry, Florida, more than half a century ago, a tiny timber town’s day in the sun was spoiled by a dense overcast that obscured a long-awaited total eclipse of the sun that more than 25,000 people had come to see.

Spaceflight Now

Photographers capture the liftoff of the Soyuz MS-25 mission bound for the International Space Station. Image: NASA/Bill Ingalls. Two days after a rare last-second launch abort, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft blasted off Saturday on a flight to the …

USA TODAY

How do I watch the 2024 solar eclipse? · Get the full experience in person: If you’re in a narrow band of U.S. land that spans from Texas to Maine, you will see the moon block the sun and its shadow cast a night-like darkness over Earth for a few minutes.

Space.com

a spacecraft capsule is docked upside down to the upward docking port of a chrome space. SpaceX’s CRS-30 Dragon cargo spacecraft docked to the ISS at 7:19 EDT, March …

BBC News

Archaeological analysis of a medieval animal cemetery has revealed horses that had the status of modern-day supercars. The remains, discovered in Westminster nearly 30 years ago, include those of physically elite equines that were imported for jousting …

Spaceflight Now

SpaceX is gearing up for the first of two Starlink missions from Cape Canaveral in 48 hours. A Falcon 9 rocket will launch from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 7:39 p.m. EDT on Saturday, one minute after sunset. It will be followed by another …

Yahoo News

Scientists hoping to find life in liquid water oceans beneath the frigid, icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa may get a helping hand from a “cosmic snowball fight” this world once engaged in. Europa has long been considered a prime solar system location …

Yahoo News

NASA has officially halted science observations conducted by its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. Don’t worry, though. The space telescope, which observes some of the most powerful blasts of radiation from the universe’s most violent cosmic events, …