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SpaceX launching 30 satellites on Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission early Dec. 21

SpaceX plans to launch 30 satellites on a rideshare mission called Bandwagon-2 early Saturday morning (Dec. 21).

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Space2Sea Antarctica: A student journalist's expedition to bottom of the world begins

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Dreaming of a white Christmas? Snow is likely in these US states according to NOAA climate data

According to climate data from NOAA, you might not have to only dream about having a white Christmas this year in some parts of the United States.

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Abort! SpaceX calls off launch of 'MicroGEO' satellites at last second

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignites each its engines just as an abort is called at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2024.

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Axiom's private space station is coming sooner than we thought

Axiom Space has decided to change up the method for assembling its commercial space station, meaning the outpost could be free-flying as soon as 2028.

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Watch NASA's Artemis Orion moon spacecraft blow its top during testing (video)

NASA's Orion spacecraft recently completed an 11-month test campaign, during which it was subjected to extreme conditions of a launch abort scenario and electromagnetic effects of lightning strikes.

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NASA Mars probe spies dusty, retired Insight lander from orbit (photo)

Photos of the dormant InSight lander captured from Mars orbit are providing researchers new data on how dust accumulates and evolves over time on the Red Planet.

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Rocket Lab scrubs Strix radar satellite launch for Synspective over 'sensor data'

A new exact launch date for the Strix satellite launch by Rocket Lab has yet to be announced.

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Hubble's 'impossible' planet explained? Gas giants may have formed fast in early universe

An ancient exoplanet dated at 12.7 billion years old could have formed over a long period in a giant disk of gas, according to new JWST observations.

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NASA's Hubble and Chandra telescopes discover a strange 'sideways' black hole in a cosmic crime scene (image)

Using the NASA space telescopes Hubble and Chandra astronomers have discovered a strange black hole that has been knocked on its side in a cosmic crime scene.

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The Ursid meteor shower peaks this weekend. Here's what to expect from the final 'shooting stars' of 2024

The last meteor shower of the year peaks in the early morning hours of Dec. 22.

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US Space Force 5 years later: What has it accomplished so far, and where does it go from here?

As the U.S. Space Force celebrates its fifth anniversary, the service's leadership looked back on its accomplishments so far while looking ahead to the future.

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Watch Rocket Lab launch a private Earth-imaging satellite

Rocket Lab plans to launch a radar satellite for the Earth-observation company Synspective, and you can watch it live when the time comes.

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Russian cosmonauts install X-ray detector, jettison trash on spacewalk outside ISS

Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner installed an X-ray detector and jettisoned trash during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024.

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SpaceX inks deal with Vast to launch 2 astronaut missions to the ISS

California-based company Vast Space has booked two crewed flights to the ISS with SpaceX, though the missions still must be approved by NASA.

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NASA space telescopes give Christmas Tree Cluster a festive makeover (photos)

The James Webb Space Telescope used a galaxy as a cosmic magnifying glass to find transient objects in the "Christmas Tree" cluster, a Winter Wonderland of even more galaxies.

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Looking back at '2010', the criminally-underrated sequel to '2001: A Space Odyssey'

Forty years ago, this lesser-known sequel attempted to explain the mysteries of one of sci-fi's greatest movies.

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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the 1st fantastic trailer for James Gunn's 'Superman!'

Krypto saves the day in this heroic look at the Man of Steel's new reboot from the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Trilogy director

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BepiColombo spacecraft flies by Mercury, sees volcanic plain and impact craters

The BepiColombo spacecraft has captured the 1st mid-infrared portrait of Mercury.

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SpaceX will launch Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander to the moon in mid-January with these 10 NASA payloads

NASA and SpaceX are targeting mid-January for the launch of Firefly Aerospace's Ghost Riders in the Sky mission to the lunar surface.

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'Missing link' black hole found? Not so fast, new study says

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a cluster of stellar-mass black holes.

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Did the 'Lower Decks' finale just set up an exciting new 'Star Trek' spin-off?

'The New Next Generation' is the last-ever episode of 'Lower Decks', but it almost feels like a backdoor pilot for a new 'Star Trek' show.

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Watch Russian cosmonauts install new X-ray detector during ISS spacewalk today (video)

Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner will perform a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk on Dec. 19 to install new equipment outside the ISS. Watch it live here, courtesy of NASA.

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This baby exoplanet is made of different stuff than its birth cloud

Investigating a young exoplanet called PDS 70b in its cocoon of natal gas and dust has shown that planets don't always resemble the environments they form in.

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Puffy white dwarfs could shed light on mysterious dark matter. Here's how.

Astronomers just took a big step toward a better understanding of white dwarfs, a discovery that could shed light on mysterious dark matter.

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