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Roscosmos announced both it and NASA will continue the International Space Station launches with each other's crew members through at least 2025, "to maintain the reliability of the ISS as a whole," according to multiple reports including the Moscow Times.
Up to 120 shooting stars per hour could be visible during a brief peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower - the year's first meteor shower, coming to North America Jan. 3 and 4.
It may occur only from within a path 115 miles (185 kilometers) wide and 10,000 miles (16,000 km) long, but the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, will be one of the most urban eclipses for decades.
"You can imagine what it's really going to be like to come up to the launch pad and have this living, breathing rocket full of fuel, moaning and groaning and creaking," Hansen said, reflecting on a launch day exercise his crew did on the mobile launch tower at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in September.
Earth and other terrestrial planets probably use their gravitational forces to tear apart asteroids - but this creates more streams of smaller asteroids.
The dual test of engines on the giant Starship and Super Heavy rocket stages at SpaceX's Starbase proving ground in Boca Chica, Texas on Friday comes as the company prepares for its third Starship launch test, which is expected in early 2024.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity had some downtime during November. But rather than resting on its laurels, the robot filmed stunning footage of dawn to dusk on Earth's neighboring planet.
When Helios boss Dev Ayesa (Edi Gathegi) announced last week that he planned to steal an asteroid, it conjured up images of the sort of interstellar-action you'd usually associate with "Star Wars" or "Star Trek." This is "For All Mankind", however, and -- even though this season has considerably upped the sci-fi quotient on its more grounded predecessors -- his audacious plan has at least one foot in reality (and astrophysics).
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On April 8, 2024, the U.S. will experience its second total solar eclipse in seven years, but only parts of 15 U.S. states will experience totality. Here are our picks for the cream of the crop using a wide variety of criteria for great viewing.
The U.S. military's X-37B space plane has embarked on its latest clandestine mission at last after weeks of delays. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the X-37B to an undisclosed orbit, with two rocket boosters returning to Earth. Here's what we know.
From long-awaited rocket launches and lunar landers to crewed flights around the moon, here are a few exciting spaceflight missions to look forward to in 2024.
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After arriving in orbit around the moon on Christmas Day, Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) moon lander has beamed back its first images of the lunar surface. Check them out here and prepare for an epic moon landing on Jan. 19!
Something is awry in our expanding cosmos. A new finding by the James Webb Space Telescope has only entrenched the mystery. On the second anniversary of its launch, Webb has cemented the discrepancy with stunningly precise new observations that threaten to upend the standard model of cosmology.
SpaceX launched its latest batch of satellites on Dec. 28 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, wrapping 2023 with more than 90 missions (but just falling short of a nice round 100). Here's how it happened.
NASA is building a roadmap for robots that could visit ocean worlds through future space missions and crack the worlds' thick, icy shells to explore subsurface seas in search of life. The ice-melting robots could melt their way through the ice moons of Jupiter, Saturn and beyond.
