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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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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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