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Launch licenses the FAA just issued to Blue Origin and SpaceX are setting the stage for space billionaires Jeff Bezos and ...

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The Space Coast is set for another busy year in 2025 with new moon missions, new spacecraft and a new rocket debut.

On this date, Jan. 4, 1970, NASA officially canceled the Apollo 20 mission and transferred the Saturn V rocket that would have sent astronauts to the moon to the Skylab mission. NASA, in a ...

Lunar rocks retrieved by China’s Chang’e-5 mission reveal that the moon’s magnetic field lasted much longer than scientists previously thought, offering new perspectives on planetary evolution and ...

In July 1969, the United States achieved a monumental feat in human history when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the ...

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THIS year looks set to be another blockbuster year for daring space missions, from China’s asteroid retrieval to the first-ever private space station. Here are some of the biggest space ...

New research underscores the physics of potential oceans on moons like Europa and Enceladus where aliens could hide ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Jan. 4, 2025, the moon is 5 days old, in the Waxing Crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 25% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...