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The New York Times

On Jan. 8, 2014, a fireball from space blazed through Earth’s atmosphere and crashed into the sea, north of Manus Island off the northeastern coast of Papua New Guinea. Its location, velocity and brightness were recorded by U.S. government sensors and …

Space.com

NASA’s forthcoming Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will hunt for “cosmic orphans,” starless planets that might even outnumber their orbiting counterparts in our galaxy. Comments (0). An illustration of an ice covered rogue planet (Image credit: NASA’s …

Space.com

The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to help its Aeolus spacecraft officially reenter Earth’s atmosphere during the evening of Friday (July 28). The procedure to bring it back down to our planet, however, begins on Monday (July 24).

Space.com

A young galaxy cluster spotted by the Chandra X-ray Observatory may have gotten a head start on “relaxing” before is galactic siblings. Comments (0). SPT2215 as seen by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue) and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (cyan and …

Space.com

Astronomers have for the first time discovered that rocky alien worlds could possess large amounts of water from the moment they form, a new study finds. Life is found virtually wherever there is water on Earth. As such, the search for potentially …

CNN

This anomaly has puzzled geologists for a long time, but now researchers from the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India, have found what they believe is a credible explanation for its formation: plumes of magma coming from deep inside the planet, …

Florida Today

At Kennedy Space Center, teams are prepping to launch a triple-core Falcon Heavy rocket with a communications satellite for EchoStar. At nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, another batch of Starlink satellites are set to fly on a Falcon 9.

EarthSky

The large golden ring is a disk of material out of which the planets are forming. The star – at the center of the ring – is called PDS 70. And one of the objects in orbit is most certainly a planet. It’s called PDS 70b. The 2nd object might be a cloud of …

ABC News

A “swarm of boulders” was sent careening into space after NASA successfully disrupted the orbit of an asteroid last year, according to the space agency. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, collided with Dimorphos, a small asteroid …

Spaceflight Now

Update: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 successfully lifted off the pad at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Update: SpaceX has shifted the launch time to a new T-0 at 8:50 p.m. EDT (0050 UTC on July 25). SpaceX has two more launch …