SpaceX's powerful Falcon Heavy rocket will fly again before the end of the year, if all goes according to plan.SpaceX is now targeting Dec. 28 for the launch of the U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane, which will fly atop a Falcon Heavy from NASA’s Kennedy...
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Starmus VII set for May 2024 in Slovakia
An emotional moment at Starmus arrived when the Children’s Choir of Tavush sang in synched unison with Freddie Mercury, delivering a medley including “We Are the Champions.” Credit: David J. Eicher Established 15 years ago by astronomer Garik Israelian and...
Hubble Sees a Random Collection of Galaxies, Perfectly Lined Up
This new image from the Hubble Space Telescope looks like a series of smaller spiral galaxies are falling out of a larger and brighter galaxy. That’s just one of the many reasons this collection of galaxies belongs to the Arp-Madore catalogue of peculiar...
Week in images: 11-15 December 2023
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SpaceX to launch 1st ‘direct to cell’ Starlink satellites early Dec. 15
SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites early Friday morning (Dec. 15), and you can watch the action live.A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 21 Starlink craft is scheduled to launch from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on...
The biggest black hole merger just got weirder
Back to Article List Astronomers continue to learn a lot from the first detection of an intermediate-mass black hole. Waves like these could be used as a test for making predictions of merging binary black holes. Credit: Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for...
Breakthrough Listen Scans Entire Galaxies for Signals From Extremely Advanced Civilizations
In 1960, Dr. Frank Drake led the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) experiment at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. In the more than sixty years that have since passed, astronomers have conducted multiple...
Media information session from ESA’s 322nd Council in Paris
ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and Swiss ESA Council Chair Renato Krpoun give an update on the roll-out of decisions taken at the Space Summit in Seville, including the implications for space transportation and progress towards enabling a European...
Camera photos & videos Christmas gift guide 2023: Capture the cosmos
Christmas Gift Guide for Photographers: Jump Menu(Image credit: Getty, Nikon, Sigma, Peak Design, Benro, Sandisk, LaCie, COOWOO, BioLite, K&F Concept, Anker, JJC)1. Gifts for beginners2. Gifts for intermediate users3. Gifts for advanced users4. Christmas...
The best telescopes under $1000, picked by experts
The Celestron NexStar 6SE is one of our best telescopes for under $1000. Note: This post contains affiliate links. When you buy a product through the links in this article, we may earn a commission. In this guide, we explore whether it’s possible to have a...