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A jaw-dropping 4K video shows Comet Neowise rising above planet Earth from...
NASA astronauts living aboard the International Space Station recently witnessed Comet Neowise rising above the limb of Earth.The astronauts photographed what they saw July 5 in a time-lapse series of...
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Code on SpaceX's Starlink website contains the first official photos of Elon...
SpaceX has launched hundreds of internet-beaming Starlink satellites into orbit since 2019.On Tuesday, a college student tweeted official SpaceX photos of user terminals, or satellite dishes to connect...
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Comet Neowise is easily visible in the night sky this week. Here's when and...
Comet Neowise is streaking past Earth with two brightly colored tails of gas and dust.This week is prime viewing time. After the comet rockets back to the outer solar system, it won't be visible from...
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Comet Neowise is putting on a spectacular show. Here are the best photos and...
Comet Neowise— a 3-mile-wide ball of dirty space ice that sprays glowing tails of gas and dust — is visible in night skies across the globe this month.The comet will hang bright near the horizon...
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Virgin Galactic just hired Disney's former international theme park boss as...
Virgin Galactic has a new CEO in Michael Colglazier, the now-former president and managing director of Disney Parks International.Outgoing CEO George T. Whitesides will assume the new executive "Chief...
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Virgin Galactic has hired a Disney theme-park boss as its new CEO. Here are 5...
Virgin Galactic has announced that Michael Colglazier, a former boss of Disney's theme parks and resorts, will become its CEO later this month.Colglazier was chosen because he's grown companies,...
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NASA's launch of the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has been delayed...
NASA has once again delayed the launch of its long-awaited, super-powerful space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope.The telescope, projected to cost nearly $10 billion, will scan the skies for...
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A new SpaceX filing with the FCC suggests Starship rocket prototypes may fly...
SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission related to experimental launches of its reusable Starship rocket system.The filing requests permission to track and communicate...
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Rocket Lab's founder and CEO Peter Beck opens up about the company's recent...
Rocket Lab, a company that launches small payloads into orbit, lost seven spacecraft in a launch on July 4.Founder and CEO Peter Beck told Business Insider the failure was "graceful," in that it...
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Comet Neowise, a meteor, and a mysterious aurora-like phenomenon called STEVE...
A spectacular photo shows Comet Neowise hanging amid the aurora borealis, with a mysterious atmospheric phenomenon called STEVE and a meteor streaking overhead.Farmer Donna Lach snapped the...
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SpaceX has kicked off a new FAA environmental review in hopes of soon...
SpaceX is aiming to soon launch a new 39-story rocket system called Starship-Super Heavy from Boca Chica at the southeastern tip of Texas.However, the aerospace company, founded by Elon Musk in 2002,...
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For the first time, astronomers have witnessed a black hole 'blink'
Two years ago, the blaze of a black hole's surrounding disk mysteriously dimmed, then roared back almost 20 times brighter than before.In a new study, astronomers theorized that the black hole may have...
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A startup is building a balloon to transport tourists to the 'edge of space'...
Space Perspective is building a balloon that can transport passengers and research equipment to the "edge of space" in a round trip.A ride on the Space Neptune will take around six hours total: four...
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Buzz Aldrin peed his pants on the moon and 18 other wild facts you never...
Fifty-one years ago, on July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to walk on the moon. In the years since, behind-the-scenes details from the mission...
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An unprecedented new photo shows 2 planets more massive than Jupiter orbiting...
Astronomers photographed two planets orbiting a sun-like star for the first time ever.Because the planets are so far from their star — much further than any planet in our solar system— they come...
View ArticleChina launches bold attempt to land rover on Mars
BEIJING — China launched its most ambitious Mars mission yet on Thursday in a bold attempt to join the United States in successfully landing a spacecraft on the red planet.Engines blazing orange, a...
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Before 2 astronauts can fly back to Earth on SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule,...
SpaceX on May 30 launched NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to orbit — the private company's first flight of humans.Behnken and Hurley rode SpaceX's new Crew Dragon spaceship, developed with...
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China just launched an ambitious Mars mission that could be its first to...
China on Thursday launched a mission to Mars called Tianwen-1, which translates to "questions to heaven."The mission aims to reach Mars in February 2021, slip a satellite into orbit around the red...
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Astrophysicists published the largest 3D map of the universe ever made,...
Astrophysicists have released the largest three-dimensional map of the universe ever made.The map helps fill in 11 billion years of the universe's history. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more...
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A stunning new photo of Saturn reveals the planet's summer and winter in...
Astronomers just released a vivid new portrait of Saturn that captures summertime in the planet's northern hemisphere and blue-hued winter in the south.The portrait is part of a project that studies...
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