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SpaceX Dragon cargo ship, the last of its kind, heads back to Earth from space station

A commercial Dragon cargo ship is returning to Earth today (April 7) to wrap up a successful trip to International Space Station that heralds the end of one era and the start of another for its SpaceX builders. The uncrewed Dragon CRS-20 spacecraft was ...

21 Things Teenagers Can Do With a New York Times Subscription

We know you know The Times reports the news, but maybe you didn't know that you can also use our site to play games and watch videos, listen to music, learn a skill, hear a podcast, find recipes and work out. For three months starting on April 6, high school ...

'Super Pink Moon' rises tonight! Teach your kids about the biggest full moon of 2020

NEW YORK — Tonight (April 7), if you look up at the night sky, you'll see the "Super Pink Moon," the biggest supermoon of the year, shining big and bright. The full moon will be at perigee-syzygy, meaning it will be closest to the Earth — 221,772 miles ...

A spacecraft headed to Mercury will observe the moon this week during an Earth flyby

The moon will stun Earthling skywatchers this evening (April 7) with the biggest full moon of the year, but later this week humans will catch a very different view of our companion, in infrared light. That view will come from the BepiColombo mission, a joint ...

Event Horizon Telescope spots weird black-hole jet mystery inside quasar

At the same time the Event Horizon Telescope was gathering data to create the first-ever image of a black hole, it was also observing an even stranger object. That object was a quasar, a pair of jets full of super-fast material shooting out from near a ...

Here's the best way to enjoy the 'Super Pink Moon,' according to a NASA astronomer

Tonight (April 7), the moon will be at its brightest and largest for the whole year during the "Super Pink Moon." This extraordinary astronomical event is surely not one to miss. Space.com spoke with NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller, the assistant director of ...

Margaret Burbidge, who explored the universe's distant reaches, dies at 100

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Washington Post

Margaret Burbidge, a self-described "watcher of the skies" whose research shed light on distant galaxies, mysterious quasars and the origins of chemical elements, helping to explain how humans and most everything else are made of stardust, died April 5 at ...

See the 'Super Pink Moon' online in live webcasts today

A "Super Pink Moon" will rise into the evening sky today (April 7), and you can watch it online with webcasts from The Virtual Telescope Project and Slooh. Tonight's supermoon — named after a pink wildflower, Phlox subulata — will be the closest full moon of ...

Blowtorch of the Gods Captured by Black Hole Image Makers

Astronomers said Tuesday that they had for the first time seen a black hole spitting fire from the heart of a distant quasar. The work, by the same team that produced the first image of a black hole last year, illuminates the workings of one of the mysterious ...

Space Ref (press release)

NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 6 April 2020 - Dragon Set to Leave Tuesday

Space Ref (press release)

A Russian rocket rolled out to its launch pad today as a new crew gets ready for liftoff to the International Space Station. Meanwhile, the Expedition 62 crew will send off a U.S. cargo craft on Tuesday packed with science and hardware. Russia's Soyuz MS-16 ...