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SpaceX Rocket Launch Appears To Punch Hole In Earth’s Atmosphere

Photographer captures radiant red glow in sky as rocket passes through ionosphere

Zenger

Massive sun 'umbrella' attached to asteroid could help fight global warming, scientist says

Hoping to combat our planet's rising temperatures, a scientist from the University of Hawaii explains a very futuristic way of shielding the Earth from sunlight.

Space

NASA Can't Get Voyager 2 to Call Home — But There Might Be a Fix

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft hasn't called home in a while, but NASA says the spacecraft is doing just fine.

Inverse

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Europe's telescope shows "dark universe"

The ESA's space telescope just released its first test images, teasing greater things to come in space exploration

Salon

Mystery of space debris found on Australian beach may be solved

The mystery of a huge piece of space debris that washed up on a beach in Western Australia may have been solved by the Australian Space Agency.

Space

New Webb Telescope Image Reveals Energetic Protostars Behaving Like “Kittens”

The NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope has taken a close look at the childish behavior of two protostars in the constellation Vela.

Inverse

Amazon's Project Kuiper opens satellite facility at Kennedy Space Center

Amazon's new satellite processing facility in Florida brings the company's Project Kuiper closer to competing with SpaceX's Starlink, but it still has a way to go.

Space

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Space weather forecasts to get a boost from new probe on the International Space Station

A new space weather sensor is heading to the International Space Station to help scientists understand how the sun's outbursts alter Earth's upper atmosphere.

Space

Where is the Voyager 2 spacecraft and why did Nasa lose contact?

The spacecraft went missing after a mistake rendered it unable to receive commands

Evening Standard

Perseid meteor shower 2023: When and where to see it at its best

The Perseid meteor shower is one of the best shooting star displays of the year and is set to peak above London next week

Evening Standard

NASA's interstellar Voyager 2 probe suffers a communication breakdown, leaving it alone in deep space

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft is alone drifting through interstellar space after a communications breakdown left it unable to receive commands or transmit data back to Earth.

Space

Watch the supermoon of August 2023 rise today with free telescope livestream (video)

The Full Sturgeon Moon, the first of two supermoons this month, rises Tuesday (August 1), and you can watch it live thanks to a livestream from the Virtual Telescope Project.

Space

Watch an Antares rocket launch cargo to the International Space Station tonight

Northrop Grumman's final Antares 200 series rocket is poised to launch the NG-19 resupply mission to the International Space Station, delivering over 8,200 pounds of research and provisions.

Space

Kolkatans may witness ‘supermoon’ today if monsoon sky permits

People of Kolkata will be able to witness a ‘supermoon’ on August 1 if the monsoon sky permits, former director of M P Birla Planetarium Debiprosad Duari said.

The Hindu

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The Hindu

Want to catch a supernova? There’s a new app for that

A new smartphone capp called ZARTH uses the open-source Sky Map and adds data daily from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)’s robotic telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California. ZARTH is short for ‘ZTF Augmented Reality Transient Hunter’, and is built along the lines of the augmented reality mobile game…

The Guardian - AU

The best way to see the August supermoons in Australia

A ‘sturgeon moon’ and a ‘blue moon’ will both grace the night sky this month in a treat for moon gazers

Space

Euclid 'dark universe' telescope reveals its 1st sparkling images of the cosmos (photos)

Euclid's stunning seminal images confirm that the observatory's instruments are working as expected.

Space

Europe's trailblazing wind satellite comes to a fiery end above Earth

The European Space Agency's weather monitoring spacecraft Aeolus came to a fiery end on Friday, July 28, when it entered Earth's atmosphere and burned up.

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Al Jazeera

What is a supermoon?

There are usually three to four supermoons in a year; Al Jazeera explains the phenomenon.

Inverse

Aliens Could Build Massive Megastructures to Save Dying Stars

A recent study suggests that advanced alien civilizations could keep their stars alive a few billion years longer, using methods we might be able to spot from Earth.

Space

Watch Lance Armstrong and Andy Richter take out the astronaut trash in 'Stars on Mars' (video)

Watch Lance Armstrong and Andy Richter take out the trash in this exclusive clip for the new episode of Fox's sci-fi reality TV series, "Stars on Mars."

Space

Stars with superpowered magnetic fields could narrow the search for alien life

With unusually powerful magnetic fields, these stars seem to get a boost when their cores start to drift apart. Thus, they may not be the ideal hosts for habitable exoplanets.

Inverse

Supermoon August 2023: Why There Are 2 This Month and How to See Them

Supermoons happen when the Full Moon coincides with the Moon's closest position to Earth. Now we get a Blue Moon supermoon.

Inverse

August Will Have 2 Supermoons — Here's How To See These Rare Events

Supermoons happen when the Full Moon coincides with the Moon's closest position to Earth. Now we get a Blue Moon supermoon.

Space

Queen legend Brian May helped NASA ace its asteroid-sampling mission, new book reveals

Queen guitarist Brian May and the chief scientist of NASA's asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx mission have collaborated on a book about the asteroid Bennu — and it's not a PR stunt.

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