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Here’s how to spot the rare conjunction of Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn in the sky
(NEXSTAR) – Those who got a kick out of watching Jupiter and Saturn cozy up in what some called the “Christmas Star” may want to look outside a little after sundown from…
Turksat telecom satellite set to launch on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket – Spaceflight Now
The Turksat 5A satellite inside an Airbus test chamber in Toulouse, France. Credit: Turksat
A Turkish-owned communications satellite is set to rocket into orbit Thursday night from Cape…
Agriculture and evolution – Wheat absorbs phosphorus from desert dust | Science &
Dec 19th 2020WHEAT WAS among the first plants to be domesticated and is now the most widespread crop in the world. It thus sounds unlikely there would be much left to learn about what…
Watch the Moon Landing of China’s Chang’e-5 Spacecraft
China released video footage on Wednesday showing the arrival of its Chang’e-5 robotic spacecraft on the moon’s surface. Racing across a landscape sprinkled with craters on Tuesday, the…
This ‘crazy beast’ was a weird early mammal that lived among dinosaurs
This artist's illustration shows a young Purussaurus attacking a ground sloth in Amazonia 13 million years ago. This bundle of bones is the torso of another marine reptile inside the…
Ursid meteor shower in 2020 peaks around winter solstice
This small meteor shower can really be seen only from the Northern Hemisphere with between five and 10 meteors streaking across the sky per hour. The Ursids peak on the evening of…
All the space exploration missions to look forward to in 2021
Most of us will remember 2020 primarily as the year of the great pandemic, but let's not forget how space exploration and astronomy had good years considering the circumstances. NASA…
Recently Discovered Comet Seen Flying Past the Sun During Total Solar Eclipse
The recently discovered comet C/2020 X3 (SOHO) seen in the LASCO C2 camera on the ESA/NASA SOHO observatory. Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/Karl Battams
As Chile and Argentina witnessed the total…
Hubble may have saved its most gorgeous photo for last this year – BGR
NASA’s powerful Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope combined to captured stunning images of the Orion Nebula.
The nebula, which is a massive mixture of various…