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SpaceX Ferries Astronauts Back to Earth after Half-year Away

Four astronauts returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule Friday, ending their nearly six-month space station mission with a splashdown in the Atlantic off Florida. Wet and windy weather across Florida delayed their homecoming. SpaceX and NASA finally gave the all-clear on Friday, and the three Americans and one Italian…

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Astronomers are Captivated by Brightest Flash Ever Seen

Astronomers have observed the brightest flash of light ever seen, from an event that occurred 2.4 billion light years from Earth and was likely triggered by the formation of a black hole. The burst of gamma-rays -- the most intense form of electromagnetic radiation -- was first detected by orbiting…

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4 astronauts safe back on Earth after SpaceX Crew Dragon return

ORLANDO, Fla. — After weather delayed departure for two days, four astronauts climbed on board the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom on Friday to take a five-hour ride back down to Earth and conclude their nearly six-month mission to the International Space Station.

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SpaceX Crew Dragon brings astronauts home with Florida splashdown

ORLANDO, Fla. — After weather delayed their departure for two days, four astronauts climbed on board the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom on Friday to take a five-hour ride back down to Earth to conclude their nearly six-month mission to the International Space Station.

Orlando Sentinel

SpaceX ferries astronauts back to Earth after half-year away

Four astronauts are back on Earth after spending almost six months at the International Space Station

The Independent UK

SpaceX capsule splashes down, returning 4 astronauts from Space Station

The fourth long-duration astronaut team launched by SpaceX to the International Space Station (ISS) safely returned to Earth on Friday, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida after nearly six months of research aboard the orbital outpost.

Reuters

Earth's oxygen has varied dramatically over time – here's how our data could help us spot alien life

Are we alone in the universe? This is a question that has intrigued humans for centuries and inspired countless studies and works of fiction. But are we getting closer to finding this out? Now that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is in operation, we might have taken one giant…

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Official: Musk seeks US funding of Ukraine satellite network

A senior U.S. officials says the Defense Department has gotten a request from SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk to take over funding for his satellite network that has provided crucial battlefield communications for Ukrainian military forces during the war with Russia

The Independent UK

Astronomers find a heavier-than-expected element on a giant hellworld

The hot Jupiter has barium in it, which was an unexpected find, and could demonstrate that the planets have a stranger origin than we anticipated.

Inverse

Astronomers stumble across heaviest element ever discovered on an exoplanet, on a gas giant so hot it could 'rain iron'

Barium, which is two and a half heavier than iron, was found on two ultra-hot gas giants orbiting stars outside our solar system.

ABC News

Alien megastructures? Cosmic thumbprint? What's behind a James Webb telescope photo that had even astronomers stumped

In July, a puzzling new image of a distant extreme star system surrounded by surreal concentric geometric rungs had even astronomers scratching their heads. The picture, which looks like a kind of “cosmic thumbprint”, came from the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s newest flagship observatory.

The Conversation

Jupiter's moon may have secret lakes

Europa, a prime candidate for extraterrestrial life, has an icy surface that hides a bustling, watery interior

Salon

Celebrating dawn of a new age

Last September, US billionaire and commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman along with Hayley Arceneaux, Chris Sembroski and Sian Proctor made history by completing the world's first all-civilian mission to orbit Earth for three days.

Bangkok Post

NASA gets its planet-hunting telescope back online after glitch

NASA's extrasolar planet hunter TESS is pausing observations while it works to recover and go back to finding distant worlds.

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The Independent UK

US opts to not rebuild renowned Puerto Rico telescope

The National Science Foundation has announced it will not rebuild a renowned radio telescope in Puerto Rico, which was one of the world’s largest until it collapsed nearly two years ago

The Guardian - UK

Frank Drake obituary

Astrophysicist and astronomer whose Project Ozma searched for radio signals from planets that could support extraterrestrial life

Inverse

Watch a black hole spew on a neighboring galaxy

Galaxy RAD12 houses a supermassive black hole that spits radio jets at a galactic neighbor. It could help solve a longstanding mystery about star formation.

Zenger

NASA Unveils ‘flying Saucer’ That Will Help Humans Land On Mars

This technology could support landing crew and large robotic missions on Mars, as well as returning heavier payloads to Earth.

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Scientists Think One Of Saturn’s Moons Could Contain Life

The Cassini spacecraft discovered water under the moon's icy surface, opening up the idea that it could sustain life.

The Conversation

NASA's asteroid deflection mission was more successful than expected. An expert explains how

On September 26, after a nine-month journey through the Solar System, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission impacted an asteroid called Dimorphos.

ABC News

Equatorial Launch Australia hit with lawsuit, including allegations of bullying against director Michael Jones

Operators of the Arnhem Space Centre in the remote Northern Territory are being sued by the company's former chief executive, who claims its current director made comments that were racist and discriminatory towards women.

Inverse

NASA confirms Artemis is on track for its November 14 launch attempt

NASA reiterated on November 3 that its upcoming lunar mission is still set to launch on Monday, November 14 at 12:07 a.m. Eastern from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It will begin rolling out of the Vehicle Assembly Building, where it was stowed during Hurricane Ian, at…

Inverse

Look! Startling Webb Telescope image may reveal an elusive source of stars and planets

In a fresh image released by the Webb Telescope team on October 12, one can see 17 strangely perfect light rings around star binary WR 140 emanating into the darkness of deep space.

ABC News

Secrets of dust shells surrounding WR 140 stars seen by James Webb Space Telescope revealed

Astronomers reveal how the spectacular rings surrounding a pair of stars captured in a surreal image by the James Webb Space Telescope were created.

Al Jazeera

SpaceX to take tourist Dennis Tito on Starship around the Moon

Tito’s wife plans to join him on the weeklong trip, but the launch date has yet to be determined.

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