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Space Exploration

FAA approves SpaceX for more Starship test missions

Alien Life, Observing

You’re almost certainly not being visited by aliens

Io’s magma ocean may not exist after all

Hubble image of M53

‘Blue straggler’ likely born from a collision of stars

Earth’s gravity gave the Moon an early facelift

The sun during the winter solstice. Pixabay/ AlainAudet

Science, Solar System

Why the winter solstice is the longest night every year, and when it happens in 2024

Milky Way, Stars

Binary star system finally discovered near Milky Way center

Pearl Young at NACA’s Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory

Space Exploration

Pearl Young, the first woman to work in a technical role at NASA, overcame barriers and ‘raised hell’

SpaceX Starlink launch

Robotic Spaceflight

Astronomers urge FCC to research impacts of space junk

Ursa Major constellation

Explore the Big Dipper this winter

The Red Planet lights up a famous star cluster this month

Space Exploration

OPINION: An aerospace expert on NASA’s Orion crew capsule heat shield issues during Artemis I