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The only total solar eclipse of 2021 will cross Antarctica early Saturday. Here are its stages explained.

On Saturday, Dec. 4, a total eclipse of the sun will take place, the first since Dec. 14 of last year, when the moon's dark umbral shadow darkened portions of the South Pacific, Patagonia (south Chile and Argentina) and the South Atlantic.

SpaceX starts building Starship launch pad in Florida

SpaceX is gearing up to start launching its massive Starship Mars rocket from Florida. The company has started building a pad for Starship at Launch Complex 39A, part of NASA's Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk ...

SpaceX aces 27th Falcon 9 rocket flight of the year, a new record

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Spaceflight Now

SpaceX set a new record Thursday for the most missions by the company's Falcon rocket family in a year, successfully sending a cargo of 48 Starlink internet satellites and two BlackSky optical Earth-imaging spacecraft into orbit from Cape Canaveral.

What time is the total solar eclipse on Dec. 4?

That's because the prime location for the total phase is in Antarctica, although there may be a livestream available. The partial phase starts at 2 a.m. EST (0700 GMT), the nearly two-minute totality ...

Space station dodges space debris from decades-old Pegasus rocket

The International Space Station dodged a fragment of a decades-old rocket body early Friday morning, continuing a stretch of space debris threats to the orbiting laboratory. On Friday (Dec. 3) at around 3 a.m. EST (0800 GMT), a Russian cargo ship ...

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Metal Planet Orbits Its Star Every 7.7 Hours

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Astronomers engaged in the sport of hunting exoplanets, or planets around other star systems have spotted a tiny world designated GJ 367 b with about half the mass of the Earth. Among the lightest exoplanets found to date, GJ 367 b zips around its ...

NASA is about to launch a laser demo that could revolutionize space communication

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(CNN) The use of invisible lasers in space may sound like something from science fiction, but it's real. NASA's upcoming Laser Communications Relay Demonstration could revolutionize the way the agency communicates with future missions across the solar ...

NASA visitor complex to open immersive 'Gateway' to deep space

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Before NASA deploys its Artemis Gateway in orbit around the moon, the space agency will launch a different, but related type of "Gateway" at its Florida spaceport — and everyone is invited to come aboard. NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex has ...

A new exoplanet: Meet GJ 367b, an iron planet smaller and denser than Earth

We now believe that most of the stars in the night sky are also orbited by their own planets. Astronomers have already found more than a thousand gas-giant planets—large, gaseous bodies similar in size to Jupiter. The focus now is on looking for rocky, ...

Astronomers discover hot, dense planet with eight-hour year

In a new study, published in the journal Nature, the researchers show that the planet, which is 31 light years from Earth, is one of the lightest among the nearly 5,000 exoplanets (planets outside our own solar system) that are known today, with half ...