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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most

Crew-11 was the eleventh operational crewed mission that SpaceX has launched for NASA under the agency’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP), a partnership launched in the 2010s to return astronaut launches

Hurricane season has a new contender, and it’s swirling above the poles. Behold, the space hurricane. Just like its terrestrial namesake, it spins in vast spirals and has a calm,

Rocket Lab launched a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS early Tuesday morning (Aug. 5). An Electron rocket carrying the QPS-SAR-12 satellite, nicknamed Kushinada-I, lifted

The days are getting shorter and not just because summer is waning in the Northern Hemisphere. On Tuesday, Aug. 5, Earth’s solar day will be ever so slightly shorter than

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida early this morning (Aug. 4). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. “India is on the Moon,” S. Somanath, chairman of the

Heads up, stargazers! The waxing gibbous moon will shine close to the red star Antares after sunset on Sunday (Aug. 3). Look 20 degrees above the southern horizon to find

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will launch a crypto billionaire and five other people to the final frontier today (Aug. 3), and you can watch the action live. The mission —