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Space X sends 29 Starlink satellites into orbit on Falcon 9 rocket launch from Florida
28+ min ago (219+ words) Liftoff occurred at 8: 57 a. m. EDT on Friday (May 29). Space X has 29 new Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit today (May 29), after their launch from Florida. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the broadband internet relay spacecraft lifted off at 8: 57 a. m. EDT (1257 GMT) from Space…...
Incredible videos show Blue Origin rocket explosion could be seen from hundreds of miles away
17+ min ago (516+ words) The incident lit up the night sky on the other side of the state. An explosion on Florida's Space Coast last night lit up the sky more than 100 miles away. During a test of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket in…...
Red dwarf stars are cosmic killers that eat their own planets
2+ hour, 51+ min ago (375+ words) Astronomers have discovered the first evidence that tiny red dwarf stars can devour their own planets. Scientists had previously suspected that red dwarfs, which are considerably smaller and dimmer than the sun, could consume their own planetary systems " but evidence…...
A 'lost planet' may have given Jupiter and Uranus their moons
4+ hour, 51+ min ago (597+ words) Could you imagine a moonless Jupiter? Well, that almost happened. For years, astronomers have suspected that our solar system may have lost at least one world at some point in its 4. 5-billion-year history. And now, new research suggests the moons…...
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes in massive fireball during prelaunch test
11+ hour, 9+ min ago (510+ words) It could be a big setback for the company, and for NASA's moon plans. Blue Origin just hit a hurdle on its way to the moon. The company's powerful New Glenn rocket exploded during a routine prelaunch engine test at…...
Companies like Space X want electromagnetic catapults on the moon. Could they be used as weapons?
16+ hour, 51+ min ago (1146+ words) "While mass drivers can bootstrap an off-world economy, they carry an equally potent and unsettling military capability: the ability to operate as an unassailable, undetectable first-strike platform." A new report stresses the strategic and security implications of placing mass drivers…...
NASA is hatching a 'fast-paced plan' to boost this space telescope. But first, they'll have to find it
18+ hour, 51+ min ago (536+ words) "These predictions evolve over time, based on space weather forecasts and other factors like Swift's current height and orientation." It's getting to be crunch time for a groundbreaking satellite-rescue mission. A private spacecraft called "Link" is set to lift off…...
James Webb Space Telescope discovers a black hole that formed before its host galaxy. Scientists aren't sure how
20+ hour, 51+ min ago (396+ words) "It's a paradigm shift, a total revisiting of the classical scenarios of how black holes form and grow." "This is a remarkable finding," team member Roberto Maiolino of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, said in a statement....
Astrophotographer spends 115 hours capturing Horsehead Nebula in striking detail with backyard telescope
23+ hour, 51+ min ago (197+ words) The Horsehead Nebula cuts a dark silhouette against glowing clouds in the constellation Orion. Meyer's image reveals the dark equine silhouette of opaque dust for which the nebula is named, backlit by glowing hydrogen gas energized by the ultraviolet radiation…...
Astronaut captures aurora magic from the ISS | Space photo of the day for May 28, 2026
1+ day, 51+ min ago (224+ words) An astronaut captured a view from the International Space Station (ISS) that will take your breath away. In January, Yui returned from space after completing the nearly five-month Space X Crew-11 mission to the ISS. This view "only happens when…...