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China plans to plant a waving flag on the moon in 2026. Here's how

China's Chang'e 7 moon-landing mission will apparently include a flag that can flutter in the moon's thin and tenuous atmosphere.

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The Wolf Moon Is Coming: Everything You Need To Know About 2025's First Full Moon

The first full moon of 2025 is just around the corner and seeing it at its brightest is worth the experience.

International Business Times

Blue Origin scrubs 1st New Glenn rocket launch due to technical issue

Blue Origin called off the debut launch of its powerful New Glenn rocket this morning (Jan. 13) due to a technical issue.

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Country diary: The northern lights have reached us, down in the valley

Allendale, Northumberland: This part of Britain is blessed with many dark sky discovery sites, but the aurora is so intense tonight I only have to step outside my door to see it

The Guardian - UK

SpaceX will launch 2 private lunar landers this week, kicking off busy year for moon missions

Lunar landers from Firefly Aerospace and Japanese company ispace will lift off atop the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this week, kicking off a busy year of moon missions.

Space

Astronomers investigate black hole jets with Event Horizon Telescope

Astronomers are now confident the Event Horizon Telescope can help them decode elusive origins of black hole jets.

Space

Scientists propose space junk cleanup

Earth is surrounded by millions of pieces of space junk, which pose a constant threat to future space exploration

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Blue Origin Set For First Launch Of Giant New Glenn Rocket

A quarter of a century after its founding, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin is finally ready for its maiden orbital voyage on Sunday with a brand new rocket the company hopes will shake up the commercial space race.

International Business Times

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Is About To Take One Small Step ... To Get Us Back To The Moon

NASA’s upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the Moon no sooner than April 2026. First, Lunar Trailblazer needs to make a few measurements.

Inverse

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 143 —King Starship

On Episode 143 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq are joined by Leonard David to talk about what 2025 has in store for SpaceX's Starship plans.

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How to see a 'planet parade' of 4 bright planets in January's night sky (video)

Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn shine in a January planet alignment, NASA says.

Space

SpaceX assembles the world's largest rocket for Starship Flight 7 test launch (photos)

SpaceX just stacked its Starship megarocket to prepare for the vehicle's seventh test flight, which is scheduled for Jan. 13.

Space

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab still 'untouched' by raging LA fires

The powerful Eaton fire has not reached the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, NASA's lead center for robotic planetary exploration.

Space

The Full Wolf Moon 'eats' Mars tonight. Here's how to see it

On the night of Jan. 13, the full moon will appear to pass in front of Mars, resulting in an occultation visible from the United States, much of southern and eastern Canada, and West Africa.

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Mars is bigger and brighter this weekend than it will be all year. Here's how to see it

Mars will be at perigee, its closest point to Earth, on Sunday, Jan. 12, appearing bigger and brighter in the sky. Here’s how to view the Red Planet at its best for 2025.

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Star escapes ravenous supermassive black hole, leaving behind its stellar partner

Scientists want to know if a tidal disruption event that exploded twice is the result of a star abandoning its binary partner, allowing it to be devoured by a supermassive black hole.

Space

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory back online after 2024 data center flood

The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost."

Space

See the moon and Jupiter ride the Bull in tonight’s sky

On Friday (Jan. 10), the moon will pass near Jupiter, meeting up with the gas giant in the constellation Taurus. Viewers can expect to see the bright moon and Jupiter shortly after sunset.

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The fastest-spinning 'vampire star' we know of is shrinking. Soon, it will explode

The fastest-spinning white dwarf ever discovered is a shrinking cosmic vampire feasting on a stellar companion. A feeding process is pushing the dead star toward an imminent supernova explosion.

Space

An amateur astronomer used an old technique to study Jupiter — and found something strange

The long-held assumption that Jupiter's iconic swirling clouds are made of frozen ammonia could be upended.

Space

SpaceX rolls Starship out to pad ahead of Flight 7 test launch (photos)

SpaceX rolled the upper stage of its Starship megarocket out to the pad this morning (Jan. 9) ahead of its planned Jan. 13 test flight.

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Blue Origin delays 1st New Glenn rocket launch due to rough seas for landing

Bad weather for a rocket landing has pushed Blue Origin's first New Glenn launch to Jan. 12.

The Guardian - US

Bezos’s Blue Origin schedules, then delays first orbital launch

New Glenn launch is delayed until at least 12 January due to conditions in the Atlantic, where booster is slated to land

Space

SpaceX launches 7th batch of next-gen spy satellites for US government (video, photos)

SpaceX launched the seventh batch of "proliferated architecture" spy satellites for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office tonight (Jan. 9).

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Mercury looks stunning in images from BepiColombo spacecraft's 6th and final flyby

BepiColombo made its sixth and final flyby of Mercury on Wed (Jan. 8) capturing images of the tiny planet hinting at the mysteries it will soon investigate.

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