A team from Calvin College, Michigan have discovered a binary pair of stars that will eventually collide and explode in 2022, producing a Red Nova that we will be able to see from Earth.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today "accepted the investigation report" regarding the results of SpaceX's investigation into the cause of the company's catastrophic Sept. 1, 2016 launch pad explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket in Florida, and simultaneously "granted a license" for the 'Return to Flight' blastoff of the private rocket from California as soon as next week - the FAA confirmed today to Universe Today, Friday, Jan. 6.

The possible detection of comets in the nearby star system of HD 172555 could shed light on how comets behaved in the early Solar System, which could have implications in the search for extra-terrestrial life.

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is a popular place. It is where the majority of space missions are sent, where all of our satellites reside, and where the ISS orbits the planet.

A study presented at the 229th Meeting of the AAS examines how the composition of stars can produce very different kinds of rocky planets.

In a significant step towards restoring America's indigenous human spaceflight capability and fostering the new era of commercial space fight, NASA has awarded a slew of additional astronaut taxi flights from Boeing and SpaceX to carry crews to the International Space Station (ISS).

At the 229th Meeting of the AAS, an international of researchers shared images of two of the most powerful forces in the cosmos occurring at the same time in the same place.

NASA has announced the two missions that will make up Discovery 13 and 14, both of which are robotic missions to study the history of the early Solar System.

Located just 25,000 light years from our Solar System is the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, the closest galaxy to the Milky Way.

Planet Earth has gone through several "ice ages", where dropping temperatures has led to the expansion of ice sheets and glaciers.

After an intensive four month investigation into why a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded without warning on the launch pad last September, the company today announced the failures likely cause as well as plans of a rapid resumption of flights as soon as next Sunday, Jan. 8, from their California launch complex – carrying a lucrative commercial payload of 10 advanced mobile relay satellites to orbit for Iridium Communications.

Located approximately 26,000 light years from Earth, in the direction of the Capricornus constellation. is the globular cluster known as Messier 30.

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