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Probing a distant galaxy like a “cosmic crime scene” with the Hubble Space Telescope after a “tip-off” from the Chandra X-ray telescope, NASA scientists have discovered a strange black hole that is tipped onto its side. The sideways black hole was discovered in the galaxy NGC 5084, a lenticular (lens-shaped) galaxy located around 80 million […]

Rocket Lab plans to launch an Earth-observing radar satellite, and you can watch it live when a new launch date is set. An Electron rocket was scheduled to lift off from Rocket Lab‘s New Zealand site on Dec. 20, but was scrubbed with less than 20 minutes remaining in the countdown. “We are standing down

Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner completed a spacewalk lasting over seven hours to install an advanced X-ray spectrometer on the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said on Friday. During the spacewalk, the cosmonauts connected the SPIN-X1-MVN spectrometer to the Zvezda service module of the ISS, which will enable

Firefly Aerospace’s first mission to the moon is nearly ready to fly. The company’s Blue Ghost lunar lander arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Monday (Dec. 16) for integration with the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will launch the robotic probe — as well as the private Japanese moon lander Resilience

Two private moon landers will take flight on the same SpaceX rocket next month, if all goes according to plan. The Japanese company ispace announced on Tuesday night (Dec. 17) that its second-ever moon mission will launch on the same Falcon 9 rocket that will loft Blue Ghost, a lunar lander built by Texas-based Firefly

Japanese startup Space One lost another rocket today (Dec. 18) when its Kairos 2 launch vehicle failed shortly after liftoff. Space One was aiming to be the first private Japanese company to put a satellite into orbit with the Kairos 2 rocket, but it was not to be. After taking off around 11 a.m. local

China has started building its second enormous satellite-internet constellation in low Earth orbit (LEO). A Long March 5B rocket lifted off from Wenchang Space Launch Center on the island of Hainan Monday (Dec. 16) at 5:00 a.m. EDT (1000 GMT; 6 p.m. local time), carrying 10 broadband spacecraft aloft. Everything went well, according to the

Chinese astronauts living aboard the Tiangong Space Station created a world record on December 17. Two of the Shezhou 19 crew members conducted a marathon nine-hour Extravehicular Activity (EVA) or spacewalk, highest ever in spaceflight history while working outside the station. The EVA was precisely clocked in at nine hours and 6 minutes. According to

NASA has again postponed the return to Earth of Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, the astronauts stranded on the International Space Station after Boeing’s Starliner capsule malfunctioned in the middle of this year. The crew of the spacecraft arrived at the ISS in June. The objective was to test the Starliner’s comprehensive capabilities, including launch,

SpaceX launched two communication satellites from Florida’s Space Coast today (Dec. 17) on the second leg of a spaceflight doubleheader. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center today at 5:26 p.m. EDT (2226 GMT), carrying the O3b mPOWER 7 and 8 satellites toward medium Earth orbit (MEO), about 5,000 miles (8,000