KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Spectacular 4th of July fireworks are coming tonight, July 3, to the Florida Space Coast courtesy of SpaceX and Intelsat with the planned near dusk launch of the commercial Epic 35e next-generation high throughput satellite to geostationary orbit for copious customers in the Americas, Europe and Africa. UPDATE: After a 2nd abort launch is now NET July 5. JULY 5 UPDATE: GO for launch attempt tonight at 7:37 PM. Weather looks good at this time
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Located in the constellation Virgo, and at a distance of 55.9 million light years from Earth, is Messier 49 - an elliptical galaxy that is part of the Virgo cluster
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PORT CANAVERAL/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The launch cadence at Elon Musk's SpaceX is truly ramping up with Falcon 9 boosters rapidly coming and going in all directions from ground to space as the firm audaciously sets its sight on a third commercial payload orbital launch on July 2 in the span of just 9 days from its East and West Coast launch bases.
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We've only seen Uranus and Neptune one time up close. There are now some mission ideas in the works that might take us back.
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Of all the planets in the Solar System. Mercury is now the regarded as the smallest, with a mean radius of 2440 km (0.38 times that of Earth).
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An angry monster lurks in the shoulder of the Hunter. We're talking about the Red Giant star Betelgeuse, Alpha Orionis in the constellation Orion. Recently, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) gave us an amazing view of Betelgeuse, one of the very few stars resolved as anything more than a point of light.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - With Sunday's successful Falcon 9 blastoff for Iridium Communications joining rocketry's history books, Elon Musk's SpaceX accomplished a double headed American space spectacular this weekend with 2 launches and 2 booster landings in 2 days from 2 coasts for 2 commercial customers - in a remarkably rapid turnaround feat that set a new record for minimum time between launches for SpaceX.
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A new study by a team of astronomers from the LPL indicates that the orbital inclinations of distant Kuiper Belt Objects could hint at the existence of a Mars-sized body in the area.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - In another breakthrough milestone aimed at slashing the high cost of rocketry, the innovators at billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX successfully launched a 'used' rocket for only the second time in history - that blazed a path to orbit with its BulgariaSat-1 commercial television comsat payload Friday afternoon, June 23, from the Kennedy Space Center and just minutes later landed upright and intact on an oceanic platform waiting offshore in the vast currents of the Atlantic ocean.
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A team from SINTEF, and with the support of the ESA is looking to develop snake robots to assist astronauts aboard the ISS and conduct missions to asteroids, the Moon and Mars.
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Relying on Hubble and gravitational lensing, a team of astronomers made the unexpected discovery of a galaxy that ceased star formation just three billion years after the Big Bang.
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Yippy-ki-yay! Saturn rides the back of a prancing pony across the evening sky. See it the next clear night.
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You can catch a glimpse of what its like to see NASA's Curiosity Mars rover simultaneously high overhead from orbit and trundling down low across the Red Planet's rocky surface as she climbs the breathtaking terrain of Mount Sharp - as seen in new images from NASA we have stitched together into a mosaic view; showing the perspective views above.
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We know trips in space will take a long time. Can we go to sleep for the journey and then wake up when we arrive?
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A researcher working with the ESA has proposed creating a fleet of magnetic tugs to safely and effectively remove space debris from orbit.
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The ESA recently decided to move forward with its LISA mission, a trio of satellites that will be the first space-based gravitational wave detector.
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It isn't every day we get a new moon added to the list of solar system satellites. The combined observational power of three observatories—Kepler, Herschel and Hubble—led an astronomical detective tale to its climatic conclusion: distant Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 has a tiny moon.
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The latest catalog to be released by the Kepler mission features and additional 10 potentially-habitable planets, and has led to some interesting conclusions about those that have been discovered so far.
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Located in the Puppis constellation, approximately 1,600 light years from Earth, a bright open star cluster that is approximately 78 million years of age.
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This summer, New Mexico-based aerospace company will be testing the aerospike engine, a concept which almost became part of the Space Shuttle
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We've now had multiple detections of gravitational waves, opening up a whole new field: gravitational astronomy. We talk about the detections made so far, and how we can see the Universe in a whole new way.
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Musk has published an essay that outlines his vision for colonizing Mars, which he unveiled last year at the 67th annual meeting of the IAC,
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Now well into her 13th year roving the Red Planet, NASA's astoundingly resilient Opportunity rover has arrived at the precipice of "Perseverance Valley" - overlooking the upper end of an ancient fluid-carved valley on Mars "possibly water-cut" that flows down into the unimaginably vast eeriness of alien Endeavour crater.
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Located in the northern hemisphere is the faint constellation of Corona Borealis, otherwise known as the "Northern Crown".
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A study by a team of international astronomers spotted something truly rare - a failed star orbiting a star near the end of its life
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According to a new study by a research team from UC Berkeley and Harvard, our Sun may have had a binary twin that it lost billions of years ago.
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In 1961, astronomer Frank Drake proposed his now-famous equation for calculating the likelihood of extra-terrestrial intelligence in the Universe.
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NASA is planning a mission to get as close as possible as we can to the Sun and reveal its mysteries.
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A new study has indicated that the famous Wow! signal may have been caused by a comet, though not all are convinced with its findings
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To kick of their Summer of Mars exhibit, NASA unveiled their Mars Rover Concept Vehicle - a mobile lab specially-designed for exploring Mars!
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Located in the southern skies, about 5,500 light years from Earth, is the bright and rich open star cluster known as Messier 46 (aka. NGC 2437)
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A team of astrophysicists from UZH has simulated the formation of the entire Universe, producing a catalog that will help unlock the secrets of the "Dark Universe".
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In the southern skies lies the faint constellation known a Corona Australis (aka. the "Southern Crown"), one of the 88 constellations recognized by the IAU.
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An unusual pit on the surface of Mars is a bit of a mystery to scientists: is it the result of an impact, or of the melting of carbon dioxide ice?
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Fraser Cain and Isaac Arthur team up again to bring you another epic collaboration. This time, it's construction tips from an engineer from a Type 2 Civilization.
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