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SpaceX Launches 60 Starlink Satellites, Nails Rocket Landing in Record-Breaking Flight

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX kicked off 2020 with the record-breaking launch of its third batch of Starlink satellites. Sixty of the internet-beaming satellites launched atop a used Falcon 9 booster on Monday, Jan. 6. The sooty Falcon 9 rocket roared to ...

NASA's TESS Planet Hunter Finds Its 1st Earth-Size World in 'Habitable Zone'

NASA's newest planet hunter just bagged some big game. For the first time, the agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a roughly Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of its host star, the zone of orbital distances where liquid ...

SpaceX Will Launch 60 Starlink Satellites into Orbit Tonight. Here's How to Watch It Live.

The private spaceflight company SpaceX will launch 60 new Starlink internet satellites to join its growing megaconstellation in orbit today (Jan. 6), and you can watch it live online. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Starlink mission from Space Launch ...

Gravitational-Wave Discovery Reveals Spectacular Crash of Neutron Stars, the 2nd Known

HONOLULU — For the second time ever, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has spotted two ultradense stellar remnants known as neutron stars violently crashing together. The gravitational wave event seems to have been ...

The Hubble Telescope Turns 30 This Year. Here's How Astronomers Will Celebrate.

HONOLULU — Astronomers kicked off 2020 by welcoming the 30th anniversary year of NASA's venerable Hubble Space Telescope here at their largest annual gathering. During the first full day of the 235th American Astronomical Society conference (Jan.

James Webb Space Telescope on Track for March 2021 Launch, NASA Says

HONOLULU — NASA's next flagship space telescope is still on track for a launch in March 2021 despite long-standing scheduling concerns, according to agency personnel. The James Webb Space Telescope has been notoriously prone to delays and cost ...

NASA Loses Contact with Tiny Exoplanet-Hunting Satellite

NASA has lost contact with a small satellite in orbit that has been hunting for alien planets for more than two years. ASTERIA, or Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics, is a briefcase-size Cubesat spacecraft that scientists developed ...

First potentially habitable Earth-size planet discovered by TESS mission, and it's nearby

First potentially habitable Earth-size planet discovered by TESS mission, and it's nearby. By Ashley Strickland, CNN. Updated 8:30 PM ET, Mon January 6, 2020. The TRAPPIST-1 star, an ultra-cool dwarf, has seven Earth-. Photos: Weird and wonderful ...

Mysterious repeating fast radio burst traced to nearby galaxy

A mysterious bright object in the sky, dubbed "The Cow," was captured in real time by telescopes around the world. Astronomers believe that it could be the birth of a black hole or neutron star, or a new class of object. Show Caption. 80 of 157. An illustration ...

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What 2020 could bring in spaceflight

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This year could herald significant moments in space exploration: NASA astronauts flying from United States soil for the first time since 2011; the first paying tourists traveling to the edge of space; rockets sending hundreds of satellites into Earth orbit to beam ...