Lunar eclipse set to transform night sky in August
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‘Crazy idea’ succeeds: Scientists monitor space junk with radio telescopes
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Local Spotlight: Exploratorium exhibit explores life in space
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — The Exploratorium’s summer exhibition, “Life in Space,” explores the challenges of human survival beyond…
Vertical liftoff as Ariane 6 takes flight for the first time
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Space Force Picks Rocket Lab for Suborbital Launches from Alaska
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World-class Jodrell Bank is under threat and UK risks a physics brain drain | Astronomy
On a chilly day in December 1945, Bernard Lovell, a physicist at the University of Manchester, struck out…
Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing
Weeks before its expected acquisition by SpaceX closes, AI coding startup Cursor is making its biggest push into…
Amazon plans to deploy more than 5,000 satellites for new space-based telecom platform
Amazon wants to build a telecommunications platform that would put thousands of satellites in space to offer voice,…
Rocket Lab to start launching from Alaska under $266 million Space Force deal
Rocket Lab is expanding its launch operations to the snowy north. The California-based company, which already flies from…
Upper C-band auction offers another lift for GEO industry
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Starship in space! See highlights of SpaceX megarocket’s epic Flight 13 test launch (video)
The 13th test flight of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket went pretty well — and provided some amazing visuals, too.…
The first woman to fly in space was not a test pilot or a scientist but a young textile worker, and in 1963 Valentina Tereshkova orbited the Earth alone for three days, longer than every American astronaut combined had managed by then
When you picture the people who flew the first space missions, you probably picture a certain kind of…