Will 2025 be the year of Starship? | Get ready for a 'New Year Comet'! Here's what to expect | Auroras, solar eclipse, Starship: Google's Breakout Searches of 2024
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SpaceX's Starship megarocket may come into its own in 2025. The 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocket system ever built, and it's designed to be fully and rapidly reusable. In 2025, SpaceX could try to launch it up to 25 times.
In the second week of 2025, we could see a new object grace the skies as comet ATLAS (C/2024) G3 gets close to the sun. In the wake of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) in October, comet G3 is due to reach perihelion — its closest to the sun — on Jan. 13, 2025. That day, this icy visitor to the inner solar system will get to within just 8.3 million miles (13.5 million kilometers) from the sun.
This year, Google's "Breakout Searches of the Year," for 2024 were showcased in an emotional YouTube video released earlier this month. Among some of the year's highlights were some of the most epic space stories of the year.
We could be in for a New Year's aurora treat with northern lights potentially visible deep into mid-latitudes tonight and tomorrow (Dec. 30 to Dec. 31). Due to an incoming solar storm, also known as a coronal mass ejection, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Prediction Center issued a G3 (strong) geomagnetic storm warning for Dec. 31.
Auroras are one of the most dazzling shows in the night sky, but to see them, you have to be in the right place at the right time. Our aurora forecast live blog tells you everything you need to know about upcoming geomagnetic activity and the likelihood of seeing the northern lights depending on your location. We will also keep you informed of any significant space weather events such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and coronal holes which could bring strong aurora-sparking solar winds our way.
New details about the small pieces of the moon gifted by the United States to Ireland in 1970 have now been unearthed. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Apollo 11 lunar samples, themselves.
2024 was a big year for space science in many ways, but it may well prove to be the most important year for the universe's most troubling and mysterious "ingredient," dark energy, since its discovery almost three decades ago. This was the first year that scientists got an exciting observational hint that the force driving the accelerating expansion of the cosmos could be "growing up."
The year 2024 has been another challenging one for Earth's climate, marked by record temperatures, extreme weather events, and urgent warnings from scientists about the accelerating pace of global warming. An analysis by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the European Union agency that tracks global warming, suggests this year will be the hottest since instrument record keeping began more than a century ago — beating climate records set just last year.
SpaceX's launch of 21 new Starlink satellites from Florida marked the company's 134th Falcon flight in 2024, surpassing the company's prior year total by 38 missions. Of this year's launches, 89 were devoted to expanding the Starlink global network.
It seems fair to say that this year has arguably been a page-turner in defining and refining interest in Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), a new term — rightly or wrongly — for Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), those unknown events or craft seen in our skies.
Geomagnetic storm could spark northern lights for New Year | India launches ambitious space docking test flight | Former US President Jimmy Carter dies at 100
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We could be in for a New Year's aurora treat with northern lights potentially visible deep into mid-latitudes tonight and tomorrow (Dec. 30 to Dec. 31). Due to an incoming solar storm, also known as a coronal mass ejection, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Prediction Center issued a G3 (strong) geomagnetic storm warning for Dec. 31.
India successfully launched twin satellites on the country's first-ever space docking test flight on Monday, a mission that aims to demonstrate a key technology the country will need to build its own space station and return moon samples to Earth.
The longest-lived president in United States' history, Jimmy Carter's voice will continue to extend "into the cosmos" beyond his death at 100. Carter, who died on Sunday (Dec. 29) at his home in Plains, Georgia, recorded the country's official message that was launched in 1977 and now travels beyond our solar system on the Voyager Golden Record. He addressed his remarks to whatever civilization or species might come across the twin probes in the future: "We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours."
SpaceX is preparing to launch its last mission of the year. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 21 Starlink broadband internet satellites, including 13 with direct-to-cell capability, is poised to lift off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday (Dec. 31). The one-hour launch window opens at 12:34 a.m. EST (0534 GMT).
Tucked away in the constellation Coma Berenices just 105 light-years from Earth, the star HD 110067 is a hidden gem of the Milky Way. This parent star has guided its litter of six exoplanets to orbit in a cosmic waltz, locked in rhythmic timing by gravitational forces.
SpaceX has begun counting down to the New Year, with the launch of the first of three rockets planned to close out 2024. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 of the company's Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Saturday
In living things, structures are built from simple, repeatable patterns. These often come in the form of a disorganized lattice. Large structures, like bones or coral, emerge from repeated rounds of growth of a fundamental pattern that builds off of itself in a haphazard way. Now, researchers have designed a flexible material that could pave the way for the development of adaptable space structures.
