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Artemis 1's Orion capsule still on track for Monday moon flyby

NASA's Artemis 1 Orion capsule is exceeding expectations in deep space and remains on target to fly by the moon on Monday (Nov. 21), agency officials said.

It's official: NASA won't rename James Webb Space Telescope

The most powerful space telescope currently operational will retain its controversial name.

Perseverance has Found a Nice Patch of Sandstone on Mars

NASA’s rolling geology robot shared a great image of sandstone that it found on Mars in Jezero Crater. It’s in a region called “Yori Pass”, which is part of an ancient river delta. Perseverance will take rock samples there for the upcoming Sample Return Mission. They should tell more about what happened with water in this region. And maybe they’ll show evidence of life.

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Missing astronomer found dead in Chile after 2-month search

A British astronomer who went missing while visiting the European Southern Observatory's La Silla site in Chile was found dead after nearly two months of searching.

Xbox Series S holiday price drop: save $50 and get ready for Starfield

The Xbox Series S is on sale for $249.99 through Black Friday and the holidays, so you can pick one up before Starfield launches.

Space Perspective to launch balloon-borne tourist flights from 'marine spaceport'

From sea to the stratosphere, Space Perspective aims to give high-altitude balloon tourists a flexible launching point to see the blackness of space and the curve of Earth.

Meteorite that landed in English village last year is most pristine ever seen

A meteorite that lit up the sky above an English village last year is almost as pristine as samples collected by space probes and contains the "right" kind of hydrogen to explain water on Earth.

China's Shenzhou 14 astronauts complete their 3rd and final spacewalk (video)

China's Shenzhou 14 astronauts just conducted a spacewalk to carry out work on the newly arrived Mengtian space station module.

Better space weather forecast could have saved SpaceX Starlink satellites from solar storm

SpaceX's loss of 40 Starlink satellites in February was preceded by the company using an inaccurate space weather forecasting model to decide to launch following a geomagnetic storm warning.

BlueWalker-3 Unfolds, Brightens One-Hundredfold

After months of waiting, we’re getting our first good looks at a fully deployed BlueWalker-3.

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Andor goes full 'Papillon' in episode 10 'One Way Out'

Kino Loy becomes a bodhisattva-of-sorts to the inmates of Narkina 5 in 'One Way Out'

Save up to $70 on Meta Quest 2 and get free two games with this Black Friday VR deal

Get two great games with your shiny new VR headset and still save money thanks to this Black Friday Meta Quest 2 deal.

World's first computer, the Antikythera Mechanism, 'started up' in 178 B.C., scientists claim

The mysterious Antikythera mechanism, thought by some to be the world's first computer, was first "started up" on Dec. 22, 178 B.C., archaeologists have now found.

Week in images: 14-18 November 2022

Week in images: 14-18 November 2022

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Sweet! Neutron stars are like cosmic chocolates, with hard or soft shells and centers

Whether neutron stars have soft or hard cores and shells, like different types of cosmic chocolates, may depend on if they are heavy or light, new research indicates.

Webb Telescope Reveals Starbirth in a Riot of Colors

A riot of colors in this James Webb Space Telescope infrared image show the warm glow of a feeding infant star, representing a look back in time at a star very like the Sun.

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ESA’s site for laser and quantum links marks 25 years

ESA’s Optical Ground Station, perched high on the slopes of Tenerife’s Mount Teide volcano, has now been peering skyward for a quarter of a century. Originally designed for laser-based communications with satellites, it is today additionally employed for tracking space debris and near-Earth asteroids as well as supporting world-class science: this year’s Physics Nobel Prize winner used the station for a quantum teleportation experiment that extended to the neighboring island of La Palma.

Save up to $1000 with these Unistellar Black Friday deals

The Unistellar eQuinox is $1000 off and the eVscope 2 is discounted by $900 in this supermassive Black Friday deal.

Boots on Mars: Artemis 1 launch and heat shield test take NASA closer

NASA's Artemis 1 moon launch and LOFTID heat shield test successfully demonstrated hardware that could be key to landing astronauts on Mars.

NSF plans another collapse for Arecibo Observatory (op-ed)

The collapse of the world's most powerful radio and radar telescope didn't kill off science at the Arecibo Observatory, but the National Science Foundation might.

Snoopy and Peanuts gang to tell history of NASA in new stage show

Snoopy, "the world famous astronaut" who is currently on a flight around the moon, has been assigned his next mission: entertaining and educating visitors at NASA's Florida spaceport.


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