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An all-sky red giant star symphony
The TESS planet-finder and Gaia space observatory have given us tickets to a red giant star symphony, now playing in our Milky Way galaxy.
August 8, 2021
2 spacecraft flyby at Venus within 2 days
Two spacecraft, Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo, make flybys of Venus within 33 hours of each other on August 9 and 10, 2021.
August 8, 2021
Watch the NG-16 Cygnus cargo launch August 10
On August 10, the uncrewed NG-16 Cygnus cargo launch takes place on Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
August 8, 2021
Weird metal-rich star catapulted from the galaxy
Scientists found a metal-rich star catapulted from a supernova explosion. It's racing out of the galaxy at nearly 2 million miles an hour.
August 6, 2021
An inner solar system much like ours, 35 light-years away
Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope have been studying a distant exoplanet with an inner solar system much like ours.
August 6, 2021
Water vapor on Ganymede, Jupiter’s large moon
Scientists have found the first evidence of water vapor on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, bringing us insights into the habitability of other worlds.
August 5, 2021
The Nauka module mishap that sent ISS tumbling
After docking with the ISS on July 29, Russia's new Nauka module accidentally fired its thrusters, sending the space station into a spin.
August 4, 2021
Neutron-star mountains are tiny (but you can’t climb ’em)
Researchers in the UK have found that neutron-star mountains are less than a millimeter tall. These dense, dead stars are nearly perfectly smooth spheres.
July 31, 2021
Jupiter X-ray aurora mystery solved, after 40 years
A Jupiter X-ray aurora mystery has perplexed astronomers for decades. Now they think ions responsible for the X-rays "surf" electromagnetic waves into Jupiter's atmosphere.
July 30, 2021
Boeing Starliner OFT-2 mission scrubbed indefinitely
Boeing's Starliner launch to the International Space Station on August 3, 2021 has been canceled and scrubbed indefinitely. Updates to come.
July 28, 2021
