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SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites, aces rocket landing in milestone flight

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX successfully launched a new batch of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit today (April 22) and nailed a rocket landing at sea to cap the mission. The extra-sooty Falcon 9 rocket — whose first stage had already flown three times ...

NASA, Lego celebrate Earth Day's 50th anniversary with 'Build A Planet' challenge

Fifty years after an astronaut's photo of our home planet gave rise to the first celebration of Earth Day, NASA has turned to another medium to "piece together" a planetary formation challenge. NASA and Lego announced the toy company's new "Build a Planet" ...

You can watch SpaceX launch 60 new Starlink satellites into orbit today. Here's how.

SpaceX will launch 60 new Starlink internet satellites into orbit on a used rocket today (April 22) and you can watch it all live online. A veteran Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch SpaceX's Starlink 6 mission the historic Launch Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy ...

Big asteroid shows itself ahead of Earth flyby on April 29 (photo)

We've now got a good visual on the big space rock that's going to fly by Earth next week. On Saturday (April 18), the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico captured a radar image of the asteroid 1998 OR2, which will zoom within 3.9 million miles (6.3 million ...

Buzz Aldrin selling autographed Apollo 11 quarantine photos in coronavirus fundraiser

Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin is leveraging his famous Apollo 11 quarantine experience of five decades ago to help society deal with the coronavirus pandemic, which has much of the world under a stay-at-home order. Aldrin and Apollo 11 crewmates Neil ...

The real price of meat

Coronavirus outbreaks could threaten the nation's meat supply, and the next wave of COVID-19 could be even worse than the one we're in now. On a brighter note: It's Earth Day. I'm planning to celebrate by drinking a big glass of wine. Because grapes.

Earth Day at 50: How Apollo 8's 'Earthrise' photo helped spark the first celebration

The roots of Earth Day extend all the way out to the moon. The iconic "Earthrise" image snapped by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders from lunar orbit on Dec. 24, 1968, showed our planet as it really is: a lonely and fragile outpost of life suspended in an endless, ...

Sorry, 'Earth 2.0' Fans, There's No Such Thing As An Earth-Like Exoplanet

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Over the past decade, our understanding of what planets exist around stars other than our own has exploded. The number of known exoplanets has risen from only a few dozen just 10 years ago to more than 4,000 confirmed exoplanets, pioneered by the ...

Earth science missions are still challenged 50 years after 1st Earth Day

Human space exploration has shown us that we live on a beautiful swirl of green and blue and white — even when life on Earth is riddled with sorrows, sickness and challenges knotted beyond measure. Today (April 22) marks the 50th anniversary of Earth ...

Arctic will see ice-free summers by 2050 as globe warms, study says

The Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in the summer within the next 30 years, a study says, which will result in "devastating consequences for the Arctic ecosystem," according to McGill University in Montreal. Sea ice is frozen ocean water that melts each summer, ...