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SpaceX’s Starship faces more delays, as Dragon production ends
SpaceX might be a step closer to moving its Super Heavy Project (SpaceX's Starship heavy launch vehicle) to Florida, after yet another delay.
March 30, 2022
Volans the Flying Fish in southern skies
Volans the Flying Fish is a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere that appropriately lies next to Carina the Stern. Spot the Flying Fish on March nights.
March 29, 2022
See it! Morning planets and the moon in photos
In late March of 2022, the dawn sky put on a spectular show of morning planets and the waning moon. See EarthSky community members' photos here.
March 28, 2022
Conjunction time! See planets and moon March 28
See the morning planets - Venus, Mars and Saturn - in conjunction, plus the moon joins the view on March 27 and 28. If you get a great photo, send it to us!
March 27, 2022
Asteroid Ryugu harbors life’s building blocks
Researchers discovered an abundance of organic materials, including amino acids, in samples brought back to Earth from asteroid Ryugu.
March 27, 2022
Solar filaments, aka prominences, arc upwards
Solar filaments (aka prominences, when viewed on the limb of the sun) are large, bright arcs of solar material and magnetic fields.
March 26, 2022
Solar Orbiter passes historically close to sun on Saturday
Solar Orbiter will make a historically close pass of the sun on March 26, 2022. All 10 of its instruments will be operating to acquire close-up data.
March 26, 2022
Perseverance rover sprints to Martian delta
NASA's Perseverance rover is heading to an ancient river delta on Mars in record time, thanks to an advanced navigation system using artificial intelligence.
March 26, 2022
Whoa! Another asteroid whizzes past Earth hours after discovery
Krisztián Sárneczky, the same astronomer who discovered 2022 EB5, discovered another asteroid just hours before it flew so close to Earth that it dipped into our shadow.
March 25, 2022
Mysterious Maunder Minimum: Nearby star offers clues
We may learn more about the sun's Maunder Minimum - a quiet period of low sunspots in the 1600s and 1700s - thanks to the help of a nearby sun-like star.
March 24, 2022
