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The pursuit of truths: A letter on the boy who cried aliens (op-ed)

April 29th, 2025 by me

As scientists, we must not forget our collective direction: the pursuit of truths and our responsibility to share these truths — and only these truths — with humanity.

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See a wafer-thin crescent moon leapfrog Jupiter this week

April 29th, 2025 by me

The crescent moon will seemingly jump over the planet Jupiter between the nights of April 29 and April 30.

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40-year-old spy satellite photos are helping find forgotten land mines in Cambodia

April 29th, 2025 by me

Long-forgotten mine fields in Cambodia are being revealed in decades-old, recently declassified images from U.S. military satellites.

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Brand-new Falcon 9 rocket sends 23 Starlink satellites to orbit on SpaceX’s 2nd launch of the day

April 29th, 2025 by me

SpaceX sent another batch of Starlink satellites to orbit tonight (April 28), its second liftoff of the day from Florida’s Space Coast.

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Amazon launches 27 satellites to begin building huge ‘Project Kuiper’ internet constellation

April 29th, 2025 by me

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched the first big batch of satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband constellation to low Earth orbit today (April 28).

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Watch Vega-C rocket launch European forest-monitoring satellite to orbit on April 29

April 29th, 2025 by me

The European Space Agency’s Biomass forest-monitoring satellite will launch atop a Vega-C rocket early Tuesday morning (April 29), and you can watch the liftoff live.

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Pine Barrens ablaze as seen from orbit | Space photo of the day for April 28, 2025

April 29th, 2025 by me

Satellite imagery reveals scope of damage from one of the largest fires New Jersey has seen in decades.

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‘I didn’t look too good because I didn’t feel too good’: NASA astronaut Don Pettit explains why he seemed so unwell after landing (video)

April 29th, 2025 by me

Seventy-year-old NASA astronaut Don Pettit looked pretty peaked shortly after returning to Earth from the ISS this month. And he was pretty peaked — he’d just thrown up on the Kazakh steppe.

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