"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
--1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.

"Correction: It is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum. The 'Times' regrets the error."
NY Times, July 1969.

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Lunt SunOculars 8x32 solar binoculars review

6 hours 42 min ago
The best possible balance between magnification, size and build quality. The Lunt SunOculars 8x32 are the go-to solar binoculars for eclipses and sunspot viewing.
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NASA's Lucy probe will fly by the asteroid Donaldjohanson on Easter Sunday

10 hours 42 min ago
On Easter Sunday (April 20), NASA's Lucy probe will zip past the asteroid Donaldjohanson, testing its science instruments on the space rock.
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'Star Wars: Zero Company' is a new X-COM-style strategy video game set during the Clone Wars, and it's coming in 2026 (video)

11 hours 32 min ago
If you're a fan of XCOM and the Star Wars' Clone Wars era, you're in luck. Zero Company is coming in 2026.
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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 157 — Space Force!

12 hours 8 min ago
On Episode 157 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik invite Chief Master Sergeant John Bentivegna to the podcast to discuss the Space Force.
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What's with all the fourth wall breaking in 'Lux', the latest episode of 'Doctor Who'?

12 hours 42 min ago
New episode "Lux" reveals that characters talking directly to the audience was just the start.
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Watch NASA astronaut Don Pettit and 2 cosmonauts return to Earth today

15 hours 42 min ago
NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues will return to Earth from the International Space Station this evening (April 19), and you can watch it live.
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Could Mars volcanoes have supported ancient life on the Red Planet? Well, maybe

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 6:00pm
Using NASA's Perseverance rover to analyze Martian rocks, researchers suggest that Mars' complex volcanism might hold clues about the planet's ancient habitability.
Categories: Astronomy

Bahamas puts SpaceX rocket landings on hold pending review: report

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 5:14pm
Landing off the coast of the Bahamas offers SpaceX new rocket flight trajectories.
Categories: Astronomy

'Take care of our station. It's our everything.' Russian cosmonaut hands control of ISS over to Japanese astronaut (video)

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 4:34pm
Russia's Alexey Ovchinin handed the keys of the International Space Station to Japanese spaceflyer Takuya Onishi in a change-of-command ceremony today (April 18).
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NASA's sun-studying PUNCH mission captures its 1st-light images. Everything looks great so far

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 4:05pm
NASA's PUNCH sun-studying mission has seen first light — and the team says all four instruments are indeed working as expected.
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Star Wars Celebration reveals new footage about Sigourney Weaver's 'The Mandalorian & Grogu' character

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 4:00pm
The Mandalorian's next chapter will blast into theaters in 2026, and we're learning more about its characters and story.
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Celestron EclipSmart 20x50mm Porro solar binoculars review

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 2:00pm
These solar binoculars offer lots of magnification for observing sunspots and solar eclipses, but their big size makes them a specialist purchase.
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Ghostly galaxy without dark matter baffles astronomers

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 2:00pm
Astronomers have stumbled upon yet another ghostly galaxy that appears to be devoid of dark matter, the elusive stuff that makes up most of the material universe.
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Cosmic party streamer for Hubble's 35th | Space picture of the day for April 18, 2025

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 1:46pm
A new portrait of a pillar of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula is a reason to celebrate.
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'Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord' is the next animated series from a galaxy far, far away coming to Disney Plus

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 1:00pm
We've seen Darth Maul, the horned Sith lord, die, resurrect, and die again, but how did his criminal empire rise and fall? Star Wars' next animated show aims to answer that.
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Explosion destroys building at Northrop Grumman rocket test site in Utah

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 12:26pm
A fire at a Northrop Grumman facility in Utah sent a building up in flames April 16. No injuries were reported.
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2 private satellites undock after pioneering life-extension mission

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 12:00pm
Two commercial satellites have completed an undocking maneuver high above Earth, signaling the successful end to a pioneering spacecraft life-extension mission.
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It's always a pleasure to meet a new Lego Star Wars set, as Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship drops in for Star Wars Day

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 11:00am
Lego's 2,970-piece Ultimate Collector Series set arrives in time for May the Fourth!
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Ryan Gosling's new 'Star Wars' movie 'Starfighter' is coming in 2027, and it has nothing to do with the Starfighter games

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 10:00am
Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy is visiting the galaxy far, far away to tell a standalone story set five years after The Rise of Skywalker.
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'It's very pro-commercial space right now': An industry insider's off-Earth status report

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 8:00am
Space.com caught up recently with Dave Cavossa, president of the Commercial Space Federation, to discuss the state of the U.S. private space industry.
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