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Watch an Atlas V rocket launch a missile-warning satellite for the US military on Thursday

The mission, designated USSF-12, will loft two satellites to a parking orbit more than 22,000 miles (about 35,400 kilometers) above Earth, where the duo will spend at least three years perfecting new capabilities in support of national defense.

The 'faintest asteroid ever detected' won't hit Earth, months of observations show

An asteroid discovered in August 2021 seemed on a collision course with Earth, but an extensive observation campaign that involved one of the world's most powerful telescopes eventually ruled out the space rock as a risk. The asteroid, dubbed 2021 QM1, ...

Swarms of tiny robots may one day explore oceans on other worlds

The concept, called "Sensing With Independent Micro-Swimmers," or SWIM, is the brainchild of Ethan Schaler, a robotics mechanical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The latest funding award was announced in a Jet ...

Live coverage: Countdown begins for Atlas 5 launch from Cape Canaveral

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Spaceflight Now

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The mission, known as USSF 12, will launch the U.S. Space Force's Wide Field of View Testbed satellite ...

James Webb Space Telescope's powers will be revealed in just weeks and scientists can't wait

"In a real sense, we're sort of the first users of the observatory and using it for what it's built for," Klaus Pontoppidan, Webb project scientist at STScI, said during the news conference.

Higgs boson: The 'God Particle' explained

The particle was finally discovered on July 4, 2012, by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the most powerful particle accelerator in the world — located at the European particle physics laboratory CERN, Switzerland.

Pandas evolved their most perplexing feature at least 6 million years ago

Panda have -- count them -- six digits to help grasp bamboo. (CNN) Giant pandas are notoriously fussy eaters. They only munch on bamboo ...

China's Mars probe has photographed the entire red planet

The images, posted by the space agency on social media, show the Martian landscape's rugged terrain: dusty red dunes, shield volcanoes, impact craters, the south pole ice sheet, and the cliffs and ridges of the Valles Marineris canyons -- one of the ...

In Photos: A 'Secret' Solar Eclipse In Space That Nobody Saw Coming

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Forbes

However, those calculations are done only for Earth observations of solar eclipses. After all, a solar eclipse—when the Moon appears to cross the disk of the Sun—is an optical illusion. Nothing ...

Pair of orcas targeting great white sharks off South Africa's coast

The Gansbaai coast was once a popular spot for great white shark spotting, but sightings have decreased markedly in recent years. The study used long-term sightings and tagging data to demonstrate that great whites have been driven away by the orcas, ...