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You can watch a US spy satellite launch on a giant Delta IV Heavy rocket tonight. Here's how.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A new U.S. spy satellite will launch into space early Thursday (Dec. 10) on the mightiest rocket built by the United Launch Alliance (ULA): the massive Delta IV Heavy. The booster is set to blast off overnight at 6:15 p.m. EST (2315 ...

Powerful Delta IV Heavy rocket launches secret US spy satellite to orbit

The massive rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37 here at 8:09 p.m. EDT (0109 GMT on Dec. 11), hoisting the classified NROL-44 spacecraft for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

China's Chang'e 5 mission: Sampling the lunar surface

The Chang'e 5 lunar mission is the Chinese National Space Administration's (CNSA) effort to send a robotic spacecraft to the moon to collect samples and return them to Earth for scientific study. It's China's first attempt at a sample-return mission, and will be ...

Trump unveils new national space policy for US leadership off the Earth

President Donald Trump released a new national space policy Wednesday (Dec. 9), laying out the fundamental principles of, and chief priorities for, the United States' diverse space activities going forward. Advertisement. The document, which you can read ...

Mouse embryonic stem cells self-organize into trunk-like structures with neural tube and somites

Science Magazine

Science Magazine

Building mammalian embryos from self-organizing stem cells in culture would accelerate the investigation of morphogenetic and differentiation processes that shape the body plan. Veenvliet et al. report a method for generating embryonic trunk-like structures ...

NASA, Boeing targeting March 2021 for next Starliner test flight

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner capsule will launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) in March 2021, if all goes according to plan. Advertisement. Boeing and NASA announced on Wednesday (Dec. 9) that they're targeting March 29 for the uncrewed ...

SpaceX launches Starship prototype on spectacular test flight, rocket explodes on touchdown

CBS News

CBS News

A full-scale prototype of of SpaceX's futuristic Starship rocket blasted off from south Texas Wednesday in the program's most ambitious test flight to date, soaring to airliner altitudes before falling back to Earth and righting itself as planned for a tail-first landing ...

Hubble pins down weird exoplanet with far-flung orbit that behaves like the long-sought 'Planet Nine'

A planet in an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away may offer a clue to a mystery much closer to home: A hypothesized, distant body in our solar system dubbed "Planet Nine." This is the first time that astronomers have been able to measure ...

The only total solar eclipse of 2020 occurs Monday. Here's what to expect.

The only total solar eclipse of 2020 occurs Monday. Here's what to expect. By Doris Elin Urrutia in 20 minutes. Like the previous total solar eclipse in 2019, the Dec. 14, 2020 event will happen over the Southern Cone of South America. Shares. Click here for ...

Artificial intelligence finds surprising patterns in Earth's biological mass extinctions

Charles Darwin's landmark opus "On the Origin of the Species" ends with a beautiful summary of his theory of evolution: "There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, ...