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SpaceX to launch Starlink and BlackSky satellites into orbit today. Here's how to watch live.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX will launch its tenth set of Starlink internet satellites into orbit today (July 8), and you can watch it live online. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Starlink mission from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in ...

NASA completes investigation on flawed Boeing Starliner capsule test flight

NASA has completed its investigation into Boeing's problematic first test flight of a Starliner crew capsule as the company and agency look toward a second test flight sometime this year. The commercial crew vehicle, which Boeing developed for NASA to ferry ...

'The Sirens of Mars' tells of the search for life on Mars

Studying Mars has been by turns tantalizing and heart-breaking, a constant dance as improving technology builds or dims hopes of finding life on our red neighbor. Sarah Stewart Johnson, a planetary scientist at Georgetown University, shares the story of that ...

Comet NEOWISE is 'an awesome sight' from space, astronaut says (video)

Comet NEOWISE is starting to put on a show for skywatchers, and not just those of us restricted to Earth's surface. NEOWISE rounded the sun on July 3, coming within 27.3 million miles (44 million kilometers) of our star. The comet survived this ...

Bad weather delays SpaceX launch of Starlink, BlackSky satellites

SpaceX called off its latest attempt to launch dozens of new Starlink internet satellites Wednesday (July 8) due to bad weather at their Florida launch pad. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was scheduled to launch 57 Starlink satellites and two small BlackSky Global ...

NASA mission to weird metal asteroid Psyche remains on track for 2022 launch

A NASA mission to one of the most intriguing objects in the solar system just cleared a big hurdle on the path toward its 2022 launch. The Psyche mission, which will explore the 140-mile-wide (225 kilometers) metallic asteroid 16 Psyche, just passed its critical ...

7 things to know about the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission

In less than a month, NASA expects to launch the Mars 2020 Perseverance mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Loaded with scientific instruments, advanced computational capabilities for landing, and other new systems, the Perseverance rover is the ...

The 'mole' on Mars from NASA's InSight lander may be stuck again

The Martian mole is underground again, but it may still not be able to dig on its own. The burrowing heat probe onboard NASA's InSight Mars lander, affectionately known as "the mole," was designed to hammer itself at least 10 feet (3 meters) underground.

From floating guts to 'sticky' blood – here's how to do surgery in space

It has been estimated that there will be one surgical emergency every 2.4 years on a mission to Mars. Credit: T. Trapp/BJS Surgery, CC BY-SA. Earlier this year, it was reported that an astronaut in space had developed a potentially life-threatening blood clot in ...

How colliding neutron stars could shed light on universal mysteries

An important breakthrough in how we can understand dead star collisions and the expansion of the Universe has been made by an international team, led by the University of East Anglia.They have discovered an unusual pulsar - one of deep space's ...