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The first astronauts to fly Boeing’s new Starliner vehicle have spoken in glowing terms of the spacecraft. Starliner launched on June 5, with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams testing out the spacecraft’s capabilities on the Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Williams and Wilmore spoke via video link […]

The spacewalk scheduled for two NASA astronauts today (June 13) has been postponed. International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 71 crew members Tracy Dyson and Matt Dominick will not be performing an extravehicular activity (EVA) that had been scheduled to begin Thursday (June 13) morning. The pair had already begun donning their spacesuits when NASA announced

Key Highlights After a year of approval, Starlink’s operation is now available in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone is the 100th connected country to Starlink’s operations. In June 2023, Sierra Leone became the fifth African country to grant Starlink an operational license. At the time, David Moinina Sengeh, the Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education

A bright pink koi fish has been spotted swimming across the southern sky. The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) VLT Survey Telescope (VST) snapped a beautiful new view of the Gum 3 nebula, located about 3,600 light-years from Earth. The nebula — an interstellar cloud of gas and dust that plays a key role in the

The same gigantic sunspot that was responsible for triggering a historic geomagnetic storm on Earth in mid-May whipped up a legendary one for Mars a few days later. On May 20, data from Europe’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft showed that an estimated X12 solar flare — the strongest type on the flare classification scale — erupted

Two NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station today (June 13)  and you can watch it live online for free. NASA astronauts Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Matthew Dominick will perform the spacewalk, or extravehicular activity (EVA). The action is scheduled to start at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT) and last about 6.5 hours.

SpaceX is scheduled to launch 22 more of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit from Florida’s Space Coast on Thursday (June 13). The Starlink satellites will lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during a two-hour window that opens at 4:46 p.m. EDT (2046 GMT). SpaceX had planned to

About that five-star red flag now in position on the far side of the moon — it’s made of basalt, a type of volcanic rock that’s plentiful on the lunar surface (as well as here on Earth). On June 2, China’s Chang’e 6 robotic lander touched down in the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin on the

It’s the sunspot region that just does not want to quit! Beastly sunspot AR3697 has made headlines again just before it makes another exit. The sunspot region, formerly known as AR3664, produced the historic geomagnetic storm that led to May’s global auroras. On Saturday (June 8), the sunspot fired off a M9.7-class solar flare, the

A dim star in the night sky 3,000 light-years from our solar system could soon become visible to the naked eye for the first time since 1946 — and you can easily find it in the night sky. The “Blaze Star” — officially called T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) — is expected to brighten significantly between now and September