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SpaceX fires up giant Starship rocket ahead of 3rd test flight (video)

SpaceX conducted a static fire test today (Dec. 20) with Ship 28, a prototype that's being readied to make the third test flight of the Starship program.

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NASA’s Moon Mission is Delayed: The Kiplinger Letter

NASA’s moon mission Artemis III, the first with humans in 50 years, will explore a region near the Moon’s South Pole.

Kiplinger

Artemis program will land international astronaut on the moon by end of 2020s, VP Harris says

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris pledged today (Dec. 20) that NASA's Artemis program will send a non-American to the lunar surface before this decade is done.

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Simulations and checks on ground and space key to Chandrayaan-3 success: Mission Director Srikanth

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists did a simulation on the ground before the launch and later did another round of checks of the systems in space before going ahead with the successful deployment of the lander on the dark side of the moon during the Chandrayaan-3 Mission, said its…

The Hindu

In the quest to find alien life, scientists are searching for extrasolar Earth-Jupiter duos

Jupiter played a key role in life developing on Earth, so to boost the search for life outside the solar system, scientists have built a catalog of small, Earth-like planets with Jupiter-like siblings.

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Mars Express orbiter suggests evidence of ancient microbial life, water and volcanism on Red Planet

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has imaged the vast lava plains of Elysium Planitia, showing evidence of recent volcanism and proving the Red Planet has a turbulent past.

Space

Artemis 2 moon astronauts discuss 21st-century 'moonshots' with President Biden

New details about the Artemis 2 astronauts' White House meetings last week were released Dec. 19, on the eve of the new National Space Council meeting chaired by Vice-President Kamala Harris.

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International astronaut will be invited on future NASA moon landing

NASA and the White House say an international astronaut will be invited on a future moon landing

The Independent UK

Commercial Chinese rocket launches small returnable spacecraft to orbit (video)

The Chinese company iSpace's sixth Hyperbola-1 rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center early Sunday (Dec. 17) morning, carrying a recoverable satellite to orbit.

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VP Kamala Harris lead National Space Council meeting today (Dec. 20)

Vice President Kamala Harris will preside over her third National Space Council meeting today (Dec. 20), and you can watch it live.

Space

What Created The Milky Way’s Mysterious Bar? A Galactic Collision, Maybe

Some researchers think the collision may have left another mark on the Milky Way: giving our galaxy the bar that cuts across its center.

Inverse

What's it like to buzz an Artemis SLS moon rocket with a supersonic jet? NASA's Artemis 2 commander tells all (video)

When Artemis 1's moon rocket arrived on the launch pad in 2022, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman spent months gathering a group to fly over it.

Space

Firefly Aerospace scrubs Alpha rocket launch set for Dec. 20 due to weather

Firefly has scrubbed today's (Dec. 20) planned Alpha rocket launch due to weather concerns. The company has not yet announced a new target date.

Space

Watch Chinese astronauts get haircuts aboard Tiangong space station (video)

Shenzhou 17 commander Tang Hongbo and rookie crewmates Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin recently helped each other get haircuts aboard China's Tiangong space station.

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How the runaway greenhouse gas effect can destroy a planet's habitability — including Earth's

Scientists watched as a simulated planet was driven from a habitable Earth-like heaven to an inhospitable Venus-like hell as the result of a runaway greenhouse effect, delivering a stark climate message.

Inverse

Watch This Nebula 2,500 Light Years Away Light Up Like a Christmas Tree

The Milky Way delivers holiday cheer in a new image and video from NASA.

Space

NASA laser-beams adorable cat video to Earth from 19 million miles away (video)

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications experiment streamed a high-definition video of Taters the cat to Earth from 19 miles (31 million km) away in a groundbreaking demonstration.

Inverse

New Webb Telescope Image Reveals Uranus In A Whole New Light

A new JWST image of Uranus is shedding light on the ice giant's ring structure and mysterious storms.

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Pew! Pew! Pew! NASA's 1st successful two-way laser experiment is a giant leap for moon and Mars communications

NASA has completed its first laser link with an in-orbit laser relay system, marking a significant advancement in space communication technology.

Space

Hubble Telescope captures a galaxy's 'forbidden' light in stunning new image

The "forbidden" light of the spiral galaxy MCG-01-24-014 is captured in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope, suggesting the galaxy contradicts common rules of quantum physics.

Space

James Webb Space Telescope may have found the oldest black hole in the universe

The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of the universe's oldest black holes is giving astronomers some vital clues for how they came to be.

Space

This alien planetary system has a Jupiter world 99 times wider than Earth

Astronomers found two planetary systems centered around solar analogs containing mini-Neptune planets and a "super-Jupiter" world 99 times the size of Earth.

The Guardian - US

Taters the cat stars in Nasa’s first video streamed from deep space

Cat chases laser pointer dot in 15-second video, designed to test possibility of sending streaming video through deep space

Space

Watch Artemis 2 moon crew take a slide for NASA training (video)

The next moon astronauts practiced sliding out of their Orion spacecraft during a simulated emergency splashdown. Artemis 2 aims to fly the four astronauts in 2024.

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See the last half moon of 2023 swim with the fish of Pisces tonight

The moon reaches its first quarter moon phase on Dec. 19, crossing the sky in the Pisces constellation as the last half-moon of 2023.

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