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The only total solar eclipse of 2021 took place under especially isolated circumstances today, sweeping over sparsely populated Antarctica and surrounding areas to create a spectacular sight.
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is scheduled to launch the Space Test Program-3 (STP-3) mission at 4:04 a.m. EST (0904 GMT) Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Astronauts at the International Space Station got a glimpse of the only total solar eclipse of 2021, which was otherwise only visible to a few lucky observers in Antarctica.
Laura Shepard Churchley is bringing more than just memories of her father on her upcoming Blue Origin launch into space. As the eldest daughter of the United States' first astronaut, Churchley has packed a stash of special items that not only made the trip before, but went further - to the moon and back.
A team of Japanese scientists has built the largest-ever cosmic simulation to include tiny "ghost" particles called neutrinos. To explore one of physics' biggest unsolved mysteries, the researchers used a whopping 7 million CPU cores to solve for the evolution of 330 billion particles and a computational grid of 400 trillion units.
Peekaboo! We see you, little star. While you can't easily see the celestial object inside all of this gas surrounding it, a new Hubble Space Telescope image shows a huge plasma jet emanating from the young star.
Lots of us are familiar with pictures of the planet Saturn and its unmistakable ring. In fact, Saturn doesn't have just one ring - if you look through a telescope, you will see that Saturn actually has at least eight rings. This is called a ring system.
Space.com's night sky columnist Joe Rao reports how clouds blocked eclipse views as day turned to night during the total solar eclipse of Dec. 4, 2021 over Antarctica.
You can watch the sun disappear and reappear from view in just one spectacular minute on Dec. 4, 2021 in this time-lapse video of the only total solar eclipse of the year. It was an incredible view from Union Glacier, Antarctica.
