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SpaceX launches 250th Starlink satellite mission, lands rocket at sea (photos)

Submit on Monday, April 28th, 2025 13:11

SpaceX launched its 250th dedicated Starlink mission on Sunday night (April 27), sending 23 of the broadband satellites to low Earth orbit.

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Uranus passed between Earth and a distant star this month — and NASA caught the rare event

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NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus’ atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth and a distant star, creating a “stellar occultation.”

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20 years ago, ‘Star Wars: Republic Commando’ made us care about the clones long before ‘The Clone Wars’ and ‘The Bad Batch’

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The 2005 cult classic was pivotal to giving the Grand Army of the Republic faces and voices before George Lucas and Dave Filoni went deeper.

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Trump administration cancels lease for NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies lab in New York City

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The Trump administration has canceled the New York City lease of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a leading NASA climate-studying organization.

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Faint Neptune joins Venus and Saturn to form a planetary triangle in the pre-dawn sky on April 28

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Venus, Saturn and dim Neptune will form a planetary triangle in the pre-dawn sky on April 28, with Mercury hovering on the periphery.

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Meet the ‘Doctor Who’ actors who brought the retrofuturistic robots to life for season 2’s ‘The Robot Revolution’ (interview)

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Veteran creature artists Stephen Love and Rob Strange share the rigors of having zero vision and taking tumbles while playing retro robots.

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NASA’s Dragonfly nuclear-powered helicopter clears key hurdle ahead of 2028 launch toward huge Saturn moon Titan

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NASA’s pioneering Dragonfly mission has passed its critical design review, keeping it on track for a 2028 launch to the potentially life-hosting Saturn moon Titan.

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 158 — Hubble’s 35th Birthday

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On Episode 158 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by John Grunsfeld to talk about the Hubble Space Telescope on its 35th anniversary.

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