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SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Heavyweight Satellite Into Orbit, Nails Rocket Landing
SpaceX launched its 13th mission of the year tonight (Dec. 16) as a twice-flown booster took to the skies, lifting off from Space Launch Complex 40 here at Cape Canaveral...
SpaceX launches Asian communication satellite
SpaceX on Monday evening plans to launch a communications satellite from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
European Planet-Hunter Set for Space Launch: How to Watch Live
A European exoplanet-hunting satellite is set to soar into space on Tuesday, along with a few other satellites. Here's how you can watch live.
'Star Trek: Picard' Gets a Season 2 Ahead of January 2020 Series Premiere
"Star Trek: Picard," the new "Star Trek" spin-off series airing on CBS All Access has been given a second season even before the first season airs next month.
Scientists Spot Ancient Star Burst in Milky Way's Heart in Stunning New Image
Astronomers gazing into the heart of the Milky Way have discovered new clues about our galaxy's dramatic past.
'Big Bang Theory' Co-Creator Taps Astronaut Mike Massimino for NBC Comedy
An astronaut who played himself on "The Big Bang Theory" is now the inspiration for a new comedy series from the co-creator of the hit sitcom.
Exoplanets can be made less habitable by stars' flares
Astronomers found that not all exoplanets in habitable zones will be able to maintain hospitable conditions for life. Exoplanets in close proximity to stars are subject to radiation bursts which...
Watch live: SpaceX plans to launch Asian communication satellite Monday
SpaceX on Monday evening plans to launch a communications satellite from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
3-D print a piece of Mars for the holidays
There's a galaxy of gifts out there for space nerds. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin may have just the thing to set your present apart: a model...
Giant carbon clouds surround young galaxies
Old -- but newly analyzed -- data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile suggest young, growing galaxies are enveloped in a massive cloud of carbon gas.
OPS-SAT: ESA’s flying lab, open to all
Video: 00:01:45 What would you do with a powerful computer based in space? At just 30 cm in height, OPS-SAT is a tiny CubeSat designed to serve as a large-scale software...
Black Pink's agency confirms 2020 album release
Black Pink's agency, YG Entertainment, gave an update on the K-pop group amid fan concerns.
Planetary boundaries: Interactions in Earth system amplify human impacts
Transgressing one planetary boundary can amplify human impacts on another one. For the first time, an international team of scientists now quantified some of the planetary-scale interactions in the Earth...
Europe's Cheops telescope will profile distant planets
The Cheops space mission will get beyond just counting worlds to start describing their properties.
SpaceX to Launch Startup's Communication Satellite Into Space Tonight: Watch Live
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the JCSAT 18/Kacific 1 communications satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Here's how to watch it live.
Blue Origin Will Fly Charitybuzz Auction Winner's Item of Choice to Space
A charity auction is offering an out-of-this-world chance: launch something of yours into space.
Watch: Adam Sandler on wife Jackie, 'Uncut Gems' role
Adam Sandler said he was initially "scared" to star in the new Safdie brothers film "Uncut Gems."
Watch: Escaped alligator spotted crossing Montreal road
A shocked Montreal woman captured video when she came across an unusual scene for the city -- an alligator crossing the road.
Very Large Telescope images stunning central region of Milky Way, finds ancient star burst
ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has observed the central part of the Milky Way with spectacular resolution and uncovered new details about the history of star birth in our galaxy....
STScI Astronomers Kathryn Flanagan and Colin Norman Elected AAAS Fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Council has elected Kathryn Flanagan and Colin Norman of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, and 441 other...
Shedding light in the dark: radar satellites lead the way
Spare a thought this Christmas for researchers hunkered down on their Polarstern icebreaker, adrift in the frozen Arctic Ocean. Subjected to temperatures as low as –45°C and the perpetual darkness...
Carbon cocoons surround growing galaxies—ALMA spots earliest environment pollution in the universe
Researchers have discovered gigantic clouds of gaseous carbon spanning more than a radius of 30,000 light-years around young galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). This is the first...
20th Year of Particle Smashups Underway at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
The 20th year of particle collisions is underway at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at...
Researchers develop in-silico model of solar storms toward early warning system
A research group from Graz investigated how solar storms can be simulated in order to enable a more accurate prediction of their effects on the Earth. Their work has furnished...
Physicists launch cosmic ray telescope from Antarctica
A team of Washington University in St. Louis scientists at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, successfully launched its SuperTIGER (Super Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder) instrument, which is used to study the origin...
Our take on this year’s big science newsmakers
Readers often tell us that they prize the magazine for keeping them up to speed on science in the broadest sense. We work hard to meet that expectation, with reporters reading scientific...
China stuck its moon landing this year. Others weren’t as lucky
Lunar-landing missions are back in vogue. After decades with almost no traffic to the moon, space agencies clamored to send spacecraft to Earth’s nearest neighbor in 2019. While the China National Space Administration...
2019 brought us the first image of a black hole. A movie may be next
Black holes are notoriously bashful beasts. The supermassive monsters that dwell at the centers of galaxies weigh millions to billions of times the mass of the sun and control the fates of everything...