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How to glimpse a parade of planets in the January night sky

Six planets grace the sky this month in what’s called a planetary parade

The Independent UK

Venus and Saturn take a sunset stroll tonight. Here's how to see it

Venus and Saturn will appear extraordinarily close together in the night sky overnight on Jan. 17 during a celestial event known as a conjunction.

Space

Feeding supermassive black holes may have ended the cosmic 'dark ages' billions of years ago

NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played a key role in ending the cosmic dark ages.

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SpaceX Starship explosion likely caused by propellant leak, Elon Musk says

SpaceX has traced the likely cause of the explosion that destroyed its Starship vehicle during its Jan. 16 test flight to a leak of liquid oxygen or liquid methane.

Space

100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone

A century ago, humans didn't know other galaxies existed. Here's how Edwin Hubble changed that view.

Space

Space X Starship explodes minutes after launch from Texas forcing airlines to alter course

Video captured by Reuters showed orange balls of light streaking across the sky over the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, leaving trails of smoke behind

Evening Standard

SpaceX’s Starship breaks up mid-flight, forcing airlines to avoid debris

Elon Musk acknowledges mission failure, posting on X that ‘success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed’.

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Watch SpaceX Starship explode over Atlantic Ocean on Flight Test 7 (videos)

The upper stage of SpaceX's Starship megarocket exploded over the Atlantic Ocean during the vehicle's Flight 7 test today (Jan. 16), and lots of people saw the sky show.

Space

SpaceX catches Super Heavy booster on Starship Flight 7 test but loses upper stage (video, photos)

SpaceX pulled off a launch-tower catch of Starship's Super Heavy booster during a test flight today (Jan. 16) but lost the vehicle's upper stage.

Space

SpaceX's Starship mega rocket blasts off on its most complex test flight yet

SpaceX's colossal Starship rocket has blasted off on its most complex test flight yet

The Independent UK

Centuries-old supernova guides James Webb Space Telescope through an interstellar gap

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the first exquisite images of an interstellar patch of sky, about 11,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.

Space

Musk's Starship Set For Launch After Bezos Orbital Triumph

The rivalry between the world's two richest men is going cosmic.

International Business Times

Astronauts repair black hole observatory, inspect cosmic ray detector on ISS spacewalk

NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams completed a six-hour spacewalk to repair and upgrade equipment outside the International Space Station on Thursday (Jan. 16).

Space

Trump's space policy won't catch Europe off guard, ESA chief says

The head of the European Space Agency says that ESA is ready for any changes in NASA's direction that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump may make.

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Photographer captures rare Comet G3 ATLAS from UK in dramatic 'once-in-a-lifetime' image

Photographer Josh Dury captured rare Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) in a dramatic 'once-in-a-lifetime' image after a challenging chase across UK skies at dusk.

Space

NASA wants a 'Super-Hubble' space telescope to search for life on alien worlds

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is a flagship NASA telescope that could answer the ultimate question.

Space

James Webb Space Telescope watches planet-forming dust shells zooming through space

The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second.

Space

Are James Webb Space Telescope images really so colorful?

How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?

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The Guardian - UK

UK grants licence to send first rocket into space from Shetland Islands

If successful, Rocket Factory Augsburg will become first company in Europe to carry out vertical launch into orbit

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Moon selected as historical preservation site to protect lunar heritage

The World Monuments Fund has added the moon to its watch list of 25 historic places that face major challenges and has called for preserving lunar heritage.

Latin Times

Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket Blasts Into Orbit For First Time

The rocket, whose inaugural mission had been delayed by several years, blasted off at 2:03 am (0703 GMT) from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the US state of Florida, a live webcast showed.

The Guardian - UK

Moon added to list of threatened cultural sites for first time

Potential looting and commercial trips pose risk to artefacts left by lunar landings, says World Monuments Fund

Space

What if life on Venus is just life from Earth?

Scientists think it's possible that life cells from Earth could've been transferred to Venus, thanks to asteroid impacts over the last few billion years.

The Guardian - US

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket blasts off in challenge to Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Launch of Amazon founder’s New Glenn craft on second attempt ramps up rivalry between tech billionaires

The National (Scotland)

Scotland set to be site of Europe’s first rocket launch into space as approval given

The German company which aims to be the first to launch a satellite from the most northerly tip in the UK has been officially licensed for…

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