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

Submit on Tuesday, April 29th, 2025 05:11

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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‘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)

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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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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 1st of 2 planned Starlink launches in 2 days, lands booster at sea

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

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China’s Shenzhou 20 astronauts take control of Tiangong space station (video)

Submit on Tuesday, April 29th, 2025 03:12

China’s outgoing Shenzhou 19 crew have handed over the reins of the Tiangong space station to a new set of astronauts.

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Scientists find giant, hidden gas cloud only 300 light-years away: ‘This cloud is literally glowing in the dark’

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A newly found, huge cloud near our solar system probably won’t form stars, but will rather disperse as part of a feedback cycle that regulates star formation.

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Meta Quest 3S review: Fantastic VR performance at a budget price

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The Meta Quest 3S costs as little as $299.99, and with performance to match its big sibling, the Quest 3, it’s an absolute winner.

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The Outer Worlds 2: Release window, trailers, story details & everything else we know

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Space isn’t safe from money-hungry corporations, and sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds 2 will play with that idea in 2025. Here’s everything we know about Obsidian’s sci-fi sequel.

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NYT bestseller Daniel Wilson’s next book is ‘Hole in the Sky’, an alien first contact story on a Cherokee reservation, and it’s already been picked up by Netflix (interview)

Submit on Tuesday, April 29th, 2025 01:11

‘This really digs into two of my favorite things: where I’m from in Oklahoma, and robots and science fiction’

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