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Happy Lunar New Year! Wednesday welcomes the Lunar New Year, during which families, loved ones and even astronauts gather around the world to eat traditional holiday foods and pay their respects to their ancestors. In a video, the crew of the current Shenzhou-19 mission held up paper cuttings of the Chinese character η¦ (fu, meaning "good luck" or "fortune") and sent home a holiday greeting.
India just launched its first mission of 2025. The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) lifted off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on schedule yesterday at 7:53 p.m. EST (0053 GMT and 6:23 a.m. local time on Jan. 29).
A colossal coronal hole, nearly 500,000 miles (800,000 kilometers) wide, has opened in the sun's atmosphere, spewing fast-moving solar wind toward Earth.
Boom Supersonic made history yesterday when its XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time. The XB-1 went supersonic two additional times during the flight, at about 17 and 22 minutes after takeoff, to allow pilots to test the jet's handling performance during supersonic flight.
A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. That's really (relatively) close.
Earth was in Xenomorph-related trouble long before the Nostromo's trip to LV-426. Here's the latest teaser for 'Alien: Earth', the FX show coming this summer.
"Star Trek" veteran Alex Kurtzman and director Olatunde Osunsanmi talk about creating "a different color of the rainbow" for their space western take on modern Trek.
