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21 Falcon 9 B1077-4 launched 56 Starlink v1.5 satellites into low Earth orbit on Wednesday, March 29 at 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC), from SLC-40 … Read more

The brightest gamma-ray burst in 10,000 years that swept over Earth last year blinded all of NASA’s flagship gamma-ray missions. A tiny Eastern European cubesat, … Read more

Watch a replay of our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 5-10 mission at 4:01 … Read more

An Earth-sized exoplanet in perhaps the most promising alien system for signs of life is not likely to be habitable to life as we know … Read more

Enlarge / Graduate student W. Walker Smith converted the visible light given off by the elements into audio, creating unique, complex sounds for each one. … Read more

Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the cosmos. Astronomers think most occur when the core of a massive star runs out of nuclear … Read more

Lead author Karen Heeter takes a core sample from an old mountain hemlock near Crater Lake, Oregon, where at least one tree dated to the … Read more

NASA’s decision to pull the funding for the modest VERITAS mission to Venus, which was both on track and on budget, in order to accommodate … Read more

Astronomical observatories require vast amounts of energy to run.Credit: Getty Michael Inouye, a computational biologist at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, Australia, … Read more

Enlarge / Certain squid have the ability to camouflage themselves by making themselves transparent and/or changing their coloration. Certain cephalopods like cuttlefish, octopuses, and squid … Read more