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An illustration of NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft soaring in the skies of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben) SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket will launch yet another high-profile NASA science mission. The agency announced today (Nov. 25) that it has picked the Falcon Heavy to loft Dragonfly, a $3.35 billion mission that […]

Alien: Earth | Teaser – Reflections | FX – YouTube Watch On Next summer might seem like a faraway destination, especially when anxiously awaiting the “Alien” franchise’s first foray into episodic television with “Alien: Earth.” But unless you own a working time machine or can somehow magically rework the Gregorian calendar, you’ve got no choice

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Esrange has been launching sounding rockets for nearly 60 years, including the Maxus 4 suborbital microgravity mission in 2001. (Image credit: ESA/ESRANGE/Lars Thulin) A suborbital rocket is set to help scientists take the next step in various realms of research with a launch from northern Sweden. The launch window for the SubOrbital Express-4 mission —

SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast this morning (Nov. 21), continuing a very busy stretch for the company. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 11:07 a.m. EST (1607 GMT), the beginning of a nearly four-hour-long window. The

Six instances of the same quasar in one JWST image indicating the discovery of the first Einstein zig-zag. (Image credit: Dux et al . 2024) Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first “Einstein zig-zag,” an image of one quasar repeated six times in a single image. The arrangement was created thanks

“Starship launch from ISS. We happened to be overhead!” (Image credit: NASA / Don Pettit) The largest rocket ever built launched on its sixth test flight earlier this week, wowing spectators on the ground — and even some in space. SpaceX’s monstrous, 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship rocket launched Tuesday evening (Nov. 19), lifting off from

The active galaxy Centaurus A, with jets emanating from the central black hole. (Image credit: ESO/WFI (Optical); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al. (Submillimetre); NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al. (X-ray)) Black holes don’t have many identifying features. They come in one color (black) and one shape (spherical). The main difference between black holes is mass: some weigh about as much

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Early conceptual renderings of cargo variants of human lunar landing systems from NASA’s providers SpaceX, left, and Blue Origin, right.  (Image credit: SpaceX/Blue Origin) NASA is keeping its foot on the gas for the space agency’s Artemis program, announcing plans to assign demonstration missions for the two vehicles it has picked to land astronauts on