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What time is SpaceX's Starship Flight 7 launch test today?
By Tariq Malik last updated
SpaceX's seventh Starship test flight will now launch no earlier than Thursday, Jan. 16, at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT).
What if life on Venus is just life from Earth?
By Monisha Ravisetti published
Scientists think it's possible that life cells from Earth could've been transferred to Venus, thanks to asteroid impacts over the last few billion years.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches massive New Glenn rocket into orbit on 1st flight (video)
By Brett Tingley, Josh Dinner published
Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket reached orbit on its first-ever flight early this morning (Jan. 16).
Watch 2 NASA astronauts repair X-ray telescope on ISS during a spacewalk today
By Mike Wall published
NASA's Nick Hague and Suni Williams will service the X-ray telescope attached to the ISS during a 6.5-hour-long spacewalk today (Jan. 16). Watch it live.
Hubble Telescope sees rare supernova explosion as a violent 'pale blue dot' (image)
By Julian Dossett published
The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about 650 million light-years away from Earth.
James Webb Space Telescope sees little red dots feeding black holes: 'This is how you solve a universe-breaking problem'
By Robert Lea published
The James Webb Space Telescope's ancient "little red dot" galaxies have been seen as a sign of "broken cosmology." Feeding supermassive black holes may have come to the rescue.
Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping
By Robert Lea published
Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 years of mapping the Milky Way.
An ancient 3-star system give this 'blue lurker' a turbo boost, Hubble Space Telescope reveals
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
A massive white dwarf and a sun-like "blue lurker" star tell a remarkable story of what was once a triple-star system in the M67 cluster.
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