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How to see a celestial ‘gazelle’ cross the night sky close to the Big Dipper this week

Submit on Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 17:11

Follow the gazelle’s flight from the Lion of Leo.

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What can ripples in spacetime reveal about black holes? Quite a bit, it turns out

Submit on Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 16:11

Cosmic echoes from some of the universe’s most violent collisions are far more nuanced than scientists had realized, according to new research.

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China’s Shenzhou 19 astronauts return to Earth after 6 months aboard Tiangong space station (photos)

Submit on Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 13:11

China’s three-person Shenzhou 19 mission came home on Wednesday (April 30) after six months in orbit.

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See photos snapped in space by Europe’s 1st private reentry capsule

Submit on Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 06:11

A European reentry capsule notched some important milestones on its first-ever spaceflight last week — and took some photos to commemorate the trip.

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Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket fails during launch, falls into the sea near Antarctica

Submit on Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 03:11

Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket suffered an anomaly during its sixth-ever launch today (April 29), resulting in the loss of its payload, a Lockheed Martin technology demonstration.

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NASA engineer Ed Smylie, who led carbon dioxide fix on Apollo 13, dies at 95

Submit on Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 03:11

It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo 13 spacecraft, when Ed Smylie realized they had to do something about the carbon dioxide.

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New record! 6 rockets launch in less than 24 hours

Submit on Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 02:11

Six different rockets launched toward orbit during an approximately 17.5-hour stretch, topping by two the previous record for most liftoffs in a 24-hour span.

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Next private astronaut mission to the ISS will launch on May 29 with Axiom Space

Submit on Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 02:11

Houston company Axiom Space announced on Tuesday (April 29) that it’s targeting May 29 for the launch of its fourth astronaut mission to the International Space Station.

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