Astronauts watch cargo ship burn up in Earth's atmosphere | Scientists find planet-forming disk beyond our Milky Way | Widespread auroras predicted from solar bursts tonight
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On Wednesday (Nov. 29), the Russian Progress MS-23 cargo spacecraft departed from the International Space Station (ISS) with a load of refuse no longer needed on the orbital outpost.
Scientists just found a planet-forming disk beyond our Astronomers have discovered the first example of a swirling disk of material feeding a young star located in a galaxy outside the Milky Way.
Aurora chasers around the world are eagerly awaiting the arrival of a super-hot plasma eruption -- known as a coronal mass ejection (CME) - that will slam into Earth tonight.
The pictures, taken with a high-definition camera, represent the first time the full structure of the Tiangong space station has been fully imaged since it arrived in orbit.
Scientists have known that all the planets in our solar system follow a slightly slanted trajectory as they circle the sun - but a new study shows that the phenomenon may not be unique to our cosmic neighborhood.
The SpaceX CEO met with Israel's President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit on Monday (Nov. 27) in which Musk toured the Kfar Azza kibbutz.
A Nov. 23 wet dress rehearsal put the spacecraft and its ground crews to the test, running through a full countdown and rocket fueling, and culminating in a 7-minute firing of the core stage's main engine.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found water and organic carbon molecules near a massive, active young star that's situated in a faraway star-forming region of space, suggesting Earth-like exoplanets could form even in the harshest environments in our Milky Way Galaxy.
