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SpaceX will launch its next Starlink satellite fleet tonight and you can watch it live

The private spaceflight company is planning to fly one of its Falcon 9 rockets for a sixth time for the Starlink mission. The two-stage launcher will blast off from Space Launch Complex 40 here at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 9:58 p.m. EST ( ...

Lucy mission: NASA's visit to the Trojan asteroids

The Lucy mission is a NASA probe scheduled to launch in October 2021 that will explore a set of asteroids near Jupiter known as the Trojans. These ancient space rocks hold important clues to the creation of our solar system and, potentially, the origin of life ...

Amazon, Amblin documentary 'Good Night Oppy' to tell Mars rover's story

As NASA moves forward with its latest rover on Mars, a new film is looking back at the agency's past "opportunity" to explore the Red Planet. "Good Night Oppy," an upcoming feature-length documentary produced by Amazon Studios, Film 45, Amblin ...

NASA astronaut joins Russian Soyuz crew for April flight to space station

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Spaceflight Now

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, veteran of a 168-day stay in space in 2017-18, will join two Russian cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz spacecraft April 9 for a flight back to the International Space Station in a deal brokered through Houston-based Axiom Space, ...

Scientists find most distant quasar shooting powerful radio jets

A newly discovered quasar from the early universe is the most distant found to date that's shooting out powerful radio jets. Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) recently discovered the quasar, called ...

Meteorite from brilliant UK fireball is England's first in 30 years

The singed hunk of asteroid was discovered in the driveway of a house in Winchcombe, a small town in the county of Gloucestershire in southwestern England. The rock, which weighs nearly 10.6 ounces (300 grams) ...

Ancient Mars' warm spells probably didn't last long

Ancient Mars was warm and wet only intermittently, a new study suggests. Although the Martian surface is bone-dry today, it's clear that liquid water flowed across it billions of years ago. The planet is scored by river channels, and ancient lakebeds lurk on the ...

Spectacular fireball display in UK leads to rare meteorite recovery

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EarthSky

UK scientists and meteor experts have recovered pieces of a rare meteorite, just days after it entered Earth's atmosphere and streaked across the sky. Researchers are ecstatic. "Normally we have to send spacecraft to collect bits of other worlds, but this time ...

Serendipitous Juno detections shatter ideas about origin of zodiacal light

But now, a team of Juno scientists argues that Mars may be the culprit. They published their finding in a March 9 paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. An instrument aboard the Juno spacecraft serendipitously detected dust particles slamming ...

Mars Express unlocks the secrets of curious cloud

When spring arrives in southern Mars, a cloud of water ice emerges near the 20-kilometer-tall Arsia Mons volcano, rapidly stretching out for many hundreds of kilometers before fading away in mere hours. A detailed long-term study now reveals the secrets of ...