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Live coverage: SpaceX preps sunrise Starlink launch from Kennedy Space Center

File: A Falcon 9 booster stands ready for the Starlink 12-2 mission at launch complex 39A. Image: Spaceflight Now.

Update Dec. 16, 7:50 p.m. EST (0050 UTC): SpaceX pushed back the T-0 liftoff time.

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Wildfire smoke lofted miles high could have an unexpected effect on Earth's climate

New measurements demonstrate that smoke particles in the upper atmosphere are twice the size of lower-altitude ones.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captures solar wind doing a 'U-turn'

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured solar material looping back to the sun, revealing how it recycles magnetic energy and shapes future solar storms.

Steven Spielberg finally reveals 1st trailer for new UFO film 'Disclosure Day', and now we're terrified

Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor star in Universal Pictures' eerie alien invasion project coming next summer.

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is still silent at Mars — and apparently is spinning, too

NASA still hasn't heard from its MAVEN Mars orbiter, and the spacecraft appears to be spinning in an odd way as well.

Scientists Map the Sun’s Magnetic “Surface”

Where does the Sun end and the solar wind begin? Scientists have mapped the dynamic magnetic edge that bounds our star.

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Stay up late tonight to watch Europe's Ariane 6 rocket launch its 1st pair of Galileo navigation satellites

Europe's Ariane 6 rocket is poised to launch a pair of Galileo satellites just after midnight on Wednesday (Dec. 17), adding to the continent's geopositioning constellation.

The First Alien Civilization We Encounter Will Be Extremely Loud

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike species, there's the highly-evolved species trying to communicate with our primitive species, there's the benevolent aliens come to save us from ourselves, and there's the mischievous anal-probers and medical experimenters.

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Watch Japanese H3 rocket launch Michibiki 5 navigation satellite tonight

A Japanese H3 rocket will launch the Michibiki 5 navigation satellite to orbit tonight (Dec. 16), and you can watch the action live.

How to watch 'Fallout' Season 2 online and from anywhere

Okey Dokey! Prime Video's post-apocalyptic adventure heads for New Vegas starting tonight!

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Will Teach Us A Lot More About Cosmic Voids

The cosmos is populated with many puzzling, gigantic, and awe-inspiring objects. Supermassive black holes billions of times more massive than the Sun reside in the center of massive galaxies. Huge stars explode in cataclysmic collisions whose light reaches us from more than 10 billion light-years away. Enormous galaxies collide and merge, leading to tremendous bursts of star formation.

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Best space stocking stuffers: Budget friendly Christmas gifts for stargazers and astrophotographers

Stuck for a small gift for a skywatcher? From compact binoculars to power banks and SD cards, we've rounded up the ideal sub-$100 stocking stuffers.

Could the Star of Bethlehem have actually been a comet?

The direction, distance and motion of the comet through the sky during its closest approach could have made it seem like it was hovering over Bethlehem when Jesus was said to have been born.

First image from Sentinel-6B extends sea-level legacy

Copernicus Sentinel-6B, launched last month, has reached its orbit and delivered its first set of data, which show variations in sea level in the North Atlantic Ocean. This data underlines how the mission will continue to strengthen the long-term reference record of sea levels, a key parameter of climate change.

'Fallout' Season 2 review: A stark warning against letting tech billionaires decide humanity's fate

Amazon and Bethesda return to the Wasteland with a second Fallout season that's all about New Vegas and not letting businessmen and fanatics run the world.

Strange structures of space: a weird quiz

Think you know your Dyson spheres from your dark blobs? This cosmic crossword dives into the strangest, most mind-bending structures ever spotted — or imagined — in the universe.

Astronomers Snap a Rare Photo of a Super-Jupiter with Two Suns

If you read enough articles about planets in binary star systems, you’ll realize almost all of them make some sort of reference to Tatooine, the fictional home of Luke Skywalker (and Darth Vader) in the Star War saga. Since that obligatory reference is now out of the way, we can talk about the new “super-Jupiter” that researchers from two separate research teams, including one at Northwestern University and one at the University of Exeter, simultaneously found in old data from the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI).

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James Webb Space Telescope could illuminate dark matter in a way scientists didn't realize

Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe" is for dark matter.

China's Shenzhou-21's Crew Test New Spacesuits During Spacewalk

Chinese taikonauts have a new set of spacesuits that will enable future missions in orbit and beyond. The suits were recently tested (Tuesday, Dec. 9th) during a series of extravehicular activities (EVAs) aboard China's Tiangong space station. The Shenzhou-21 crew (Zhang Lu and Wu Fei) donned the newly delivered D and E spacesuits to conduct their inaugural spacewalks. The suits are essentially a second-generation version of the Feitian spacesuits ("flying into space" in Chinese) used for intravehicular activity (IVA), but specifically designed for station EVAs.

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