Your Guide to August 2026 Eclipse Season
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SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida (photos)
SpaceX sent yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites skyward today (Aug. 11). A Falcon 9 rocket…
Vietnam’s VinSpace signs deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX
SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster is seen on the launch pad, as Starship is prepared to be placed on…
On this day in space! Aug. 11, 1960: 1st object successfully recovered from orbit
On Aug. 11, 1960, part of the Discoverer 13 satellite became the first human-made object to be recovered…
In 1859, a solar storm now called the Carrington Event induced currents so strong in North American telegraph lines that operators disconnected their batteries and kept sending messages on the geomagnetic current alone, while auroras lit up the sky over Cuba and Hawaii
On the morning of 2 September 1859, telegraph operators along the Boston-to-Portland line unplugged their batteries, watched the…
Vietnam’s VinSpace announces deal with SpaceX to launch first satellite | Space News
Hanoi-based aerospace firm says it will partner with Elon Musk’s rocket company to deploy satellites next year. Published…
APOD: 2026 August 11 – Six Moons of Saturn
APOD: 2026 August 11 – Six Moons of Saturn Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or…
Flight paths and fridge magnets: how a fireball hunter tracked down New Zealand’s newest meteorite | New Zealand
Days after a massive fireball flashed through New Zealand’s skies last month, Steve Wyn-Harris spotted a small, black…
A dark rock picked off the gravel plains of Oman turned out to be a piece of Mars, blasted off the planet by an impact. It now rides aboard Perseverance as a calibration target, back on the world it came from
In 1999, out on the gravel flats of central Oman, someone picked up a dark, unremarkable rock. It…
Rocket Lab establishes German subsidiary to target sovereign European satellite manufacturing and Electron and Neutron launch demand
Rocket Lab has established Rocket Lab Germany GmbH, expanding its European presence as the company targets growing demand…
SpaceX rocket launch from Florida now set for Tuesday on Starlink mission – Florida Today
SpaceX rocket launch from Florida now set for Tuesday on Starlink mission Florida TodaySpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to…
Seven Needles, 800,000 Haystacks – Universe Today
Quasars are the brightest sustained objects in the universe, the cores of distant galaxies where a supermassive black…