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SpaceX launches European TV broadcasting satellite

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket streaks into a moonlit sky over Cape Canaveral in this long exposure photo. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography. An Airbus-built communications satellite rocketed into orbit early Saturday from Cape ...

SpaceX launches European TV broadcasting satellite

An Airbus-built communications satellite rocketed into orbit early Saturday from Cape Canaveral on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher, bound for a high-altitude perch in geostationary orbit to beam hundreds of TV and radio channels to Eutelsat customers ...

SpaceX Crew Dragon returns to Earth with on-target splashdown

Three NASA astronauts and a European flier boarded their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth Friday, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean east of Jacksonville to close out a 170-day ...

Entire known universe recreated in Minecraft by 18-year-old

In a game where you can build nearly anything, one 18-year-old spent two months creating and sharing the whole observable universe. Christopher Slayton, 18, is a long-time aficionado of Minecraft, a game that allows people to create castles, ...

NASA's asteroid scout zips past Earth today on 1st launch anniversary

A deep-space mission is celebrating the first anniversary of its launch from Earth by zipping closer to the planet than the International Space Station's orbit. NASA's Lucy mission launched on Oct. 16, 2021, bound on a 12-year journey to explore the ...

A meteor shower tied to Halley's Comet will peak this week. Here's how to watch the Orionids in the Bay Area

San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle

The meteor shower will be visible "all across the Bay Area," Burress said, but like most celestial events, the best viewing spots are where the sky is darkest and clearest — meaning free from bright lights and cloudy weather conditions.

'Sentient' brain cells in dish learn to play video game: study

Medical Xpress

Medical Xpress

Brett Kagan, who led the study published Wednesday in the journal Neuron, told AFP his findings open the door to a new type of research in which neurons could one day be used as biological information processors, complementing digital computers.

Alien Megastructures? Cosmic Thumbprint? Here's What's Behind This Spectacular James Webb Image

Singularity Hub

Singularity Hub

In July, a puzzling new image of a distant extreme star system surrounded by surreal concentric geometric rings had even astronomers scratching their heads. The picture, which looks like a kind of "cosmic thumbprint," came from the James Webb Space ...

Duluth News Tribune

Astro Bob: High time for the Orionids

Duluth News Tribune

Halley's Comet may only come around every 76 years (it's due back in 2061), but the dust and dirt the sun boils from its nucleus during each return supplies the material for not one but two annual meteor showers. Halley orbit.

Spot Lucy in the sky as NASA asteroid mission slingshots past Earth early Sunday (Oct. 16)

Exactly one year after it launched on Oct. 16, 2021, Lucy will skim Earth's atmosphere in a maneuver to facilitate its 12-year-mission to visit the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. At its closest approach, Lucy will pass Earth at around 220 miles (350 kilometers) ...