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Watch Rocket Lab attempt its 1st US launch with an Electron booster Monday after delay [updated]

Update for 7:58 pm ET: Rocket Lab has called off tonight's Electron launch attempt from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia due to high upper-level winds. The next launch attempt will be on Monday, Dec. 19, during a 2-hour window that runs from 6-8 ...

Space crew using robotic arm to inspect damaged capsule

Phys.Org

Phys.Org

The crew of the International Space Station on Sunday was inspecting an attached Russian space capsule that may have been damaged by a micrometeorite, while ground controllers considered whether to send up a replacement spaceship to ferry some of them ...

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The top 10 science stories of 2022

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10. For the first time, a human wears augmented reality contacts · 9. An experiment suggests that consciousness relies on quantum entanglement · 8. The rings of Saturn may finally be explained · 7. NASA's DART spacecraft successfully deflects an asteroid · 6.

When Is the Next Eclipse? Plus, Astronomers and Astrologists Answer Your Burning Eclipse Questions

Henry Herald

Henry Herald

"Eclipses don't happen on completely regular schedules, but they come in irregular periods," Dr. McTier explains. "Total solar eclipses happen roughly every 18 months and total lunar eclipses usually happen once 2.5 years, but we seem to be in a very ...

James Webb survey image shows a field of shining galaxies

This image shows around 2% of the sky, as captured by both Webb's Near-Infrared Camera or NIRCam and the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. This is just a part of the PEARLS survey, but shows thousands of galaxies including some ...

SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, completes record booster re-flight

Florida Today

Florida Today

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket bolted off its Kennedy Space Center pad Saturday afternoon, taking dozens of Starlink internet satellites to orbit as its reusable booster completed a record-breaking 15th flight.

South Korea's 1st moon probe Danuri begins to enter lunar orbit

Danuri, South Korea's first deep-space exploration mission, is finally arriving at the moon after a four-month voyage. The Danuri spacecraft was expected to begin entering lunar orbit at on Friday (Dec. 17) at 2:45 p.m. EST (1945 GMT, 2:45 a.m. Dec.

See a closeup of the stunning Lagoon Nebula in new Hubble image

The image of the week shared by researchers working with the Hubble Space Telescope this week is a real stunner, showing the open cluster NGC 6530. This cluster of thousands of stars is shrouded in dust and makes up a small part of the huge and ...

'Unlike any planets found in our solar system:' These two planets are probably made of water, study finds

KITV Honolulu

KITV Honolulu

The planetary system they studied is called Kepler-138 because it's located within the field of vision of NASA's Kepler spacecraft. Researchers have known about the existence of three exoplanets -- the term for planets outside our solar ...

InSight records the biggest marsquake it will ever capture

BGR

BGR

However, as with most of the data gathered by spacecraft like the lander as well as the James Webb space telescope, proper research takes time to really dig into the data. As such, we're just now hearing about this particular quake in detail.