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Astronomers and SpaceX coming together to make Starlink megaconstellation less disruptive to science

Astronomers are praising SpaceX's response to months of outcry over the visibility of the company's Starlink internet satellites from scientists dismayed by interference with observations. The SpaceX response includes a new strategy for reducing the amount ...

Rocket Lab to launch satellites for US spysat agency and NASA tonight. Here's how to watch.

The small-satellite launch company Rocket Lab will loft a mini-fleet of payloads to orbit for NASA, a U.S. spy satellite agency and Australia early Thursday (June 11) and you can watch it live online. An Electron rocket will launch the mission, called "Don't Stop ...

Titan is drifting away from Saturn 100 times faster than we thought

Saturn's moon Titan is zooming away from its ringed parent 100 times faster than scientists expected. According to a new study, Saturn's largest moon was "born" fairly close to the planet, but over the course of 4.5 billion years, it has migrated out to where it ...

New SpaceX spacesuits get five-star rating from NASA astronauts

The movie-star look to SpaceX's new spacesuits is just one of the innovative features the Crew Dragon astronauts enjoyed during the Demo-2 test flight to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken were the first humans ...

Former astronaut becomes first person to visit both space and the deepest place in the the ocean

(CNN) — Just eight people have reached Challenger Deep, the deepest point of the ocean. More than 550 people have visited space. But only one person has done both: Kathy Sullivan. On Sunday, the NASA astronaut and oceanographer visited Challenger ...

Saturn's moon Titan is rapidly migrating away from the planet

(CNN) Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is moving away from its planet a hundred times faster than previously established, according to a new study. The giant moon isn't alone in this behavior; other moons among the 150 known moons in our solar system are ...

Astrophysicists confirm cornerstone of Einstein's Theory of Relativity

An international collaboration of scientists has recorded the most accurate confirmation to date for one of the cornerstones of Einstein's theory of general relativity, 'the universality of free fall." The new research shows that the theory holds for strongly ...

Mars rock layers swirl in gorgeous crater photo

A sliver of Martian geological history takes center stage in a striking photo of a Red Planet crater. The image, captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), shows ...

Team solves old mystery, paving way toward advances in medicine, industry, environmental science

An Oregon State University environmental engineering professor has solved a decades-old mystery regarding the behavior of fluids, a field of study with widespread medical, industrial and environmental applications. The research by Brian D. Wood, ...

Method to study the "traces" of coronal mass ejections

Scientists at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (skoltech), together with colleagues from the Karl-Franzens University of Graz and the Kanzelhoehe Observatory (Austria), have developed an automatic method for detecting coronal dimmings, ...