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SpaceX launches advanced GPS satellite for US Space Force, sticks rocket landing

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX successfully launched its 11th mission of the year, lofting a next-generation global positioning satellite into space for the U.S. Space Force. A shiny, white Falcon 9 rocket took to the skies today (June 30) at 4:10 p.m. EDT ...

SpaceX is launching an advanced GPS satellite for the US Space Force today. Here's how to watch.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX is gearing up to launch a Falcon 9 rocket today, June 30, to deliver an upgraded global positioning satellite (GPS) into orbit for the U.S. Space Force and you can watch it live online. The flight, the California-based rocket ...

Giant star pulls off vanishing act. Did it become a black hole or was it all an illusion?

An unstable massive star has suddenly vanished from view, and astronomers aren't sure if it collapsed into a black hole or is playing peek-a-boo behind galactic dust. The star was too far away to spot on its own, but it showed up in the spectrum, or light ...

'Asteroid Hunters' comes to IMAX this fall. See the trailer here (exclusive video)

"A single strike could reshape our world, and the only thing that can stop it is science." So begins the trailer for the new IMAX film "Asteroid Hunters," which is scheduled to hit theaters on Oct. 8. As its title suggests, the 38-minute documentary introduces ...

Steampunk space exploration? Icy moon robot could hop around on steam power.

Icy moon explorers may someday hunt for life using an old-fashioned method: steam power. A conceptual robot being investigated at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) would release soccer ball-sized machines to hop on the surface and fly through the ...

International Asteroid Day: A look at NASA's first planetary defense mission

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(CNN) In two years, NASA will demonstrate its asteroid deflection technology on the newly named Dimorphos, a moon orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos. This will be the agency's first full-scale demonstration of this type of technology on behalf of ...

Asteroid impact, not volcanic activity, killed the dinosaurs, study finds

An asteroid impact, not volcanic activity, killed the dinosaurs, a new study finds. For decades, scientists have gone back and forth over exactly what caused a mass extinction event 66 million years ago, which destroyed about 75% of all life on Earth, including ...

The search for life on Mars, and the Space Tiger King who think it's already been found

NASA has never discovered life on the red planet, but a cabal of fringe scientists believe they have. Jackson Ryan. June 30, 2020. Jerry van Andel sat alone on the bow of the RV Lulu, a floating junkyard of a ship, as it bobbed against the waves of the Pacific ...

Firefly Aerospace uses rocket engine to light birthday candles in epic cake video

Let's light that candle! The folks at Firefly Aerospace took a brief break from rocket development recently to fire up an engine in honor of co-founder Max Polyakov, who turned 43 years old Tuesday (June 30). The Reaver rocket engine, in true celebratory form, ...

The search for life on Mars and the Space Tiger King

Jerry van Andel sat alone on the bow of the RV Lulu, a floating junkyard of a ship, as it bobbed against the waves of the Pacific Ocean. Across deck, a team of scientists bustled around a basket full of strange life forms, wrenched from a mighty crack in the ...