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NASA's Orion capsule is back on Earth after journey around the Moon

Orion splashed down under parachutes in the Pacific Ocean.

Axios

Nasa’s Orion capsule splash-lands in ‘textbook’ return to Earth from the Moon

The spaceship was launched aboard the Artemis 1 rocket on November 16 from the agency’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

The Independent UK

Artemis I returns safely to Earth, kicking off a new era of Moon exploration

The Moon mission paves the way to bring humans back to our nearest stellar neighbor.

Inverse

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Nasa’s Orion capsule returns from trip around the moon after completing first mission of Apollo successor

Programme aims to get astronauts back on moon by 2024

The Independent UK

Bill Madden: It’s contract madness from MLB owners at winter meetings in ‘age of irrationality’

NEW YORK — Sometime around the midpoint of the baseball owners’ nearly two billion dollar spending spree at the winter meetings in San Diego this week, Billy Eppler got off the phone in the Mets war room and announced to his troops that the earth had just shifted.

Tribune News Service

'Rick and Morty' Season 6 Episode 10 release date, time, title, plot, and trailer for Adult Swim’s sci-fi show

Just in time for the holidays, the season finale is a Christmas episode. Here's everything we know about 'Rick and Morty' Season 6 Episode 10.

Inverse

'Game-changing' deep space explosion was caused by super-dense stars colliding, says NASA

Over the past year, researchers have studied a “high-energy bust” from the outskirts of the galaxy, some 1 billion light years away from Earth, that lasted about a minute

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SpaceX overnight launch on tap to send private lander, NASA ice surveyor to moon

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX is back at the launch pad for another shot to send a couple of moonbound customers into space from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Orlando Sentinel

Blinded by the light: how skyglow pollution is separating us from the stars

Light infrastructure has expanded alongside population growth but it’s not only star gazing in jeopardy – cultures, wildlife, science and human health are all threatened

The Guardian - AU

Flights were expensive so I took the overnight Sydney to Melbourne train – it was cheap and cheerful (at first)

I didn’t get decent sleep or phone reception but there was more legroom and a hot meal – and maybe a smile from Mother Earth

The Guardian - AU

Geminids: You need to see 2022’s best meteor shower this week

After a few minor showers, this meteor shower is ready to put on a show. The Geminids are one of the highest-volume meteor showers of the year.

Inverse

How to stop this 'weapon of mass extinction’

Biodiversity is at a crucial point and pressure is growing on the international community to commit to new goals to protect it, Charis Palmer and Chris Bartlett.

Newsroom.co.nz

America's dubious Space Race recruits

Desperate to win the Space Race against the USSR, the US quietly recruited prominent engineers from Nazi Germany

Salon

This classic sci-fi movie on HBO Max popularized a futuristic technology — can science make it happen?

Could the warp drive really help us boldly go where no man has gone before? Here's what experts say about Star Trek's physics.

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Wales Online

Nasa's Orion capsule set for splashdown on Earth after Moon mission

Craft will take humans around the moon for its next mission, slated for 2024

Tribune News Service

Rebel farmers are pushing back on climate action. This is why

It took an existential threat to turn a fifth-generation dairy farmer into an anti-government protester.

The Independent UK

Nasa’s Orion capsule set for splashdown on Earth after moon mission

A successful return would pave the way for humans to return to the moon.

ABC News

Polar explorer John Rymill's country-town upbringing prepared him to lead an Antarctic expedition

Inspired by the Antarctic heroes of Shackleton, Mawson and Scott, John Rymill set out to lead his own expedition. His "breakthrough" came when he learned from East Greenlanders how to survive in polar conditions, before he headed south.

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The Independent UK

Joseph Kittinger, who set longtime parachute record, dies

The U.S. Air Force pilot who held the record for the highest parachute jump for more than 50 years has died

Daily Mirror

UFC star Bryce Mitchell pushes for debate with Joe Rogan on flat earth theory

Top UFC featherweight contender Bryce Mitchell, who is in action on Saturday night, has continued to push for a debate with Joe Rogan on his flat earth conspiracy theory

Newsroom.co.nz

The sixth mass extinction is happening now, and it doesn’t look good for us

Species are going extinct at an unusually high rate. Our efforts now will prevent a future too ghastly to contemplate, says Corey Bradshaw

The Conversation

Arrakhis: the tiny satellite aiming to reveal what dark matter is made of

The European Space Agency (Esa) recently announced a new mission of its science programme: a small telescope orbiting the Earth dubbed Arrakhis. But although its name is inspired by the sci-fi novel Dune, it will not be looking for sandworms or “spice” on a desert planet.

The Guardian - UK

Unhappy landings: please Avatar, don’t ever visit Earth!

Avatar: The Way of Water may flop, but it’s got to be better than the putative storyline promised for movie five, which is a no-no for any sci-fi franchise

The Conversation

China's new space station opens for business in an increasingly competitive era of space activity

The International Space Station is no longer the only place where humans can live in orbit.

Inverse

Surprisingly, TRAPPIST-1's violent flares could make life even more likely

Thanks to a cool physics trick, flares from a nearby star can heat a planet from the inside, powering plate tectonics.

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