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SpaceX just sent another batch of its Starlink internet satellites aloft from Florida’s Space Coast. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 27 satellites launched the Starlink 10-32 mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center today (May 28) at 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster, designated B1080, came back to Earth about […]

The moon will team up with Castor and Pollux to create a smiling face in the night sky on May 29. (Image credit: Starry Night) A crescent moon will appear alongside the bright stars Castor and Pollox to form a lopsided grin in the night sky on May 29. Skywatchers in the U.S. will find

One of the strangest cosmic objects ever seen just got even weirder — NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope caught it blasting out X-ray radiation and radio waves. The mystery object, known as ASKAP J1832- 0911, is located within the Milky Way about 15,000 light-years away from Earth. It’s now known to flash in both radio waves

The residual Cassiopeia A Supernova A, captured by the NASA Raggi X Chandra Observatory, by the Space Telescope of James Webb, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The X -ray (blue), optic (red and white) and infrared data (red, green and blue) reveal clouds and gas filaments expelled from the supernova. Credit:

The NASA GISS building in New York City. (Image credit: NASA) NEW YORK — NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies has stood on a Manhattan corner near Columbia University’s campus since 1966. The institute, called GISS for short, shares the building with Tom’s Restaurant, a diner made famous by its regular appearance on the hit

Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle launches on the NS-25 crewed suborbital mission on May 19, 2024. (Image credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin’s 12th human spaceflight mission will launch this weekend, if all goes according to plan. Blue Origin, which was founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, announced on Tuesday (May 27) that it’s targeting Saturday (May

The external shell of the cat’s eyes, extremely weak to the eye, is visible in this very deep exposure in the area. Credit: Bob Fera and Eric Coles One of the funniest objects of the North Extreme sky, the cat’s eyes of the cat in Draco (NGC 6543), is a planetary nebula with a high

Lunar Landing Day – When the Future Arrived – YouTube Watch On On Episode 162 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the effort to make July 20 a national holiday called “Lunar Landing Day.” If you’re lucky enough to have witnessed the landing of Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969,

This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), shows the molecular gas content of two galaxies involved in a cosmic collision. The one on the right hosts a quasar –– a supermassive black hole that is accreting material from its surroundings and releasing intense radiation directly into the other galaxy.  (Image credit: ALMA

This oblique vision of the moon surface was photographed by the astronauts Apollo 10 in May 1969. Credit: NASA April 2025 was a demanding month for space. The Pop Katy Perry icon joined five other civil women in a quick trip to the limit of space, making news. In the meantime, another group of people