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SpaceX launches 53 Starlink internet satellites and lands rocket in foggy flight

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX just launched its second rocket this week, this time carrying a stack of Starlink satellites into orbit in a foggy flight, before sticking a booster landing at sea. The previously-flown Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from ...

Lego Education will send astronaut minifigures to the moon with NASA's Artemis 1 mission

The tiny astronauts will help kick off an educational project to teach students about space exploration. Lego Education will send four intrepid minifigures, including Kate and Kyle shown here, around the moon on NASA's Artemis 1 lunar mission in 2022.

Pamela Melroy, Scott Kelly and Michael Lopez-Alegria inducted into US Astronaut Hall of Fame

Florida Today

Florida Today

MERRITT ISLAND — Though it's been years since she's flown in space, Pamela Melroy will never forget flying over the Earth at night, seeing the lights of cities miles below "spread out like diamonds on black velvet.".

SpaceX launch starts deployment of new Starlink orbital shell

Spaceflight Now

Spaceflight Now

SpaceX shot 53 Starlink internet satellites into orbit on top of a Falcon 9 rocket Saturday from foggy Cape Canaveral, commencing a new phase of deploying the global broadband network with the first launch into a new "shell" some 335 miles above Earth.

'Snoopy in Space' season 2 blasts off on Apple TV Plus with 'The Search for Life'

What does the world's first beagle to land on the moon do for an encore? Explore the rest of the universe, of course. Snoopy, the Peanuts' comic strip character and long-standing NASA mascot, is back on Apple TV Plus for a second season of "Snoopy in ...

NASA's sci-fi mission to move an asteroid is crucial for humanity

It sounds like a movie. NASA will soon test its ability to deflect a threatening asteroid away from our humble blue planet. The agency will slam a spacecraft the size of a vending machine into a space rock the size of a great Egyptian pyramid.

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Recently, Perseverance has been surveying rocks in Jezero Crater, a place that scientists believe previously experienced violent flash floods. Since it's believed that life on the Red Planet would have been at a time when water covered ...

Asteroid near Earth may actually be an old chunk of the Moon

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KXAN.com

Scientists call Kamo`oalewa a quasi-satellite, which is a category of asteroids that orbit the Sun but still pass relatively close to the Earth. Astronomers know very little about quasi-satellites because they are typically very faint in the night's sky, ...

Ferris-wheel-sized asteroid near Earth may actually be an old chunk of the Moon

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Astronomers know very little about quasi-satellites because they are typically very faint in the night's sky, making it hard for telescopes to spot them. Researchers discovered Kamo`oalewa using the PanSTARRS telescope in Hawaii back in 2016.

There's an asteroid following Earth, and it may be from the moon

This isn't a normal asteroid. Planetary scientists suspect that a space rock that appears to follow Earth around the sun (because it has a very similar orbit) is likely a chunk of the moon. Importantly, the 150 to 190-foot-wide asteroid is not a threat ...