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SpaceX launches 60 new Starlink internet satellites into orbit, misses rocket landing

Approximately nine minutes later, the rocket's first stage returned to Earth to attempt its sixth landing on SpaceX's drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You" in the Atlantic Ocean," but missed its target.

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance landing: Everything you need to know

Feb. 18 is the big day! JUMP TO: Rover mission explained; Jezero Crater landing site ...

SpaceX planning launch of two Falcon Heavy missions in summer and fall

Spaceflight Now

Spaceflight Now

SpaceX plans two Falcon Heavy launches this year for the U.S. Space Force in July and October, and United Launch Alliance has four national security space missions on its 2021 schedule, according to a military spokesperson.

NASA's Perseverance rover will land on Mars this week. Here's what to expect

CNN

CNN

MUST WATCH. Why NASA calls landing the Mars rover '7 minutes of terror' 01:26. (CNN) Perseverance, NASA's most sophisticated rover to date, is expected to land on the surface of Mars on Thursday, February 18, around 3:55 p.m. ET. The rover has been ...

As Perseverance Approaches Mars, Scientists Debate Its Sampling Strategy

Scientific American

Scientific American

Launched last July and barreling toward the Red Planet and Jezero Crater is the space agency's Perseverance rover, cocooned in heat-resistant shielding and set for a terrifying, technically audacious fiery nosedive through the planet's atmosphere on February ...

The New York Times

Where Did the Dinosaur-Killing Impactor Come From?

The New York Times

A new study blames a comet fragment for the death of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. But most experts maintain that an asteroid caused this cataclysmic event.

Biotech fit for the Red Planet: New method for growing cyanobacteria under Mars-like conditions

In Frontiers in Microbiology, scientists show for the first time that Anabaena cyanobacteria can be grown with only local gases, water, and other nutrients and at low pressure. This makes it much easier to develop sustainable biological life support systems.

New physics rules tested on quantum computer

Aalto researchers have used an IBM quantum computer to explore an overlooked area of physics, and have challenged 100-year-old notions about information at the quantum level. The rules of quantum physics, which govern how very small things behave, ...

New video captures discovery of spongy animals deep under Antarctic ice

Livescience.com

Livescience.com

In fact, the scientists weren't looking for marine life at all; they were geologists planning to gather sediment samples from the ocean floor. They'd set up camp on the Filchner-Ronne Ice ...

Comet or asteroid: What killed the dinosaurs and where did it come from?

Using statistical analysis and gravitational simulations, Siraj and Loeb calculate that a significant fraction of long-period comets originating from the Oort cloud, an icy sphere of debris at the edge of the solar system, can be bumped off-course by Jupiter's ...