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Demo-2 success keeps SpaceX on track for tourist flights in late 2021

SpaceX is over the moon after the successful completion of the company's first-ever crewed mission. The Demo-2 test flight to the International Space Station wrapped up on Sunday (Aug. 2), when a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying NASA astronauts ...

After delays, Falcon 9 rocket back on launch pad with Starlink satellites

Spaceflight Now

Spaceflight Now

The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) launcher is set for takeoff at 1:12:05 a.m. EDT (0512:05 GMT) Friday from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center with 57 more Starlink satellites.

Teens who named Mars rover and helicopter are 'over the moon' following launch

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Two special guests looked on as NASA successfully launched its Perseverance Mars rover on July 30, beginning a nearly seven-month journey to the Red Planet. Those onlookers were Alex Mather, a 7th-grade student from ...

Signs of 'missing' neutron star found in heart of supernova

Evidence of a neutron star hidden deep inside Supernova 1987A is helping astronomers solve a 33-year-old mystery surrounding one of the brightest star explosions ever observed. On Feb. 23, 1987, astronomers witnessed an incredibly bright stellar ...

On its way to Mars, Chinese spacecraft spots Earth and moon, aces steering maneuver

China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft captured a stunning view of the Earth and moon before making its first trajectory correction maneuver on the long journey to Mars. The mission consists of an orbiter, entry vehicle and rover. The spacecraft will begin orbiting the ...

China launches 2 satellites from desert launch site

China is continuing its rapid rate of space launches with its 22nd mission of 2020. China launched a new Earth observation satellite on Thursday (Aug. 6), with a small companion satellite from Tsinghua University joining the ride. A Long March 2D rocket lifted ...

The Planetary Society

Your Guide to the 2020 Perseid Meteor Shower

The Planetary Society

The 2020 Perseid meteor shower peaks after midnight on the morning of 12 August. You might also see a few meteors the evening of the 11th, and at night for a couple days before and after. To watch, go to the darkest place you can, let your eyes adjust for ...

New class of laser beam doesn't follow normal laws of refraction

University of Central Florida researchers have developed a new type of laser beam that doesn't follow long-held principles about how light refracts and travels. The findings, which were published recently in Nature Photonics, could have huge implications for ...

Scientific American

Higgs Boson Gives Next-Generation Particle Its Heft

Scientific American

In the periodic table, no element is more important than another one. But in the Standard Model—a theory that explains the smallest constituents of the universe and the forces that govern them, minus gravity—the Higgs boson is arguably central. Like other ...

Hubble uses Earth as proxy for identifying oxygen on potentially habitable exoplanets

This illustration shows the Hubble Space Telescope superimposed on an image of the Moon, seen during a lunar eclipse. Taking advantage of a total lunar eclipse in January 2019, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have detected ozone in ...