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Space.com

The landing was long-delayed, coming more than three months into an orbital mission originally expected to last about 10 days. And, while Starliner launched with two NASA astronauts aboard — Williams and Butch Wilmore — nobody rode it home.

Fortune

Boeing’s beleaguered Starliner made its long-awaited return to Earth on Saturday without the astronauts who rode it up to the International Space Station, after NASA ruled the trip back too risky.

Florida Today

As a second straight weekend fades away on the calendar, neither SpaceX nor Polaris Program officials have announced a new target launch time and date for the privately funded Polaris Dawn orbital mission featuring an adventuresome spacewalk.

WCVB Boston

It’s been a busy week for space travel and exploration this week. From returning capsules to stranded astronauts, maiden voyages and telescope images — here’s a look at all of our space stories from this week: …

The News Journal

The harvest moon dips down toward the horizon early Friday morning as seen in West El. In September, the full moon is known as the corn moon and stems from Native American tribes harvesting corn …

Deccan Herald

While these results are difficult to reconcile with the accepted history of lunar volcanism, it’s possible some areas of the Moon’s interior were more enriched in radioactive elements that generate the heat that drives volcanic activity.

WFLA

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are now full-time station crew members along with the seven others on board. NASA decided last month they won’t be flying back in their Boeing Starliner …

WIRED

How much do we really know about what else is out there in the universe? Let’s take an outlandish example. If there were aliens flying around our galaxy with the sort of warp drive technology we often …

WJLA

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (7News) — Police are searching for a person who inappropriately touched a University of Maryland student Friday, according to the University of Maryland Police Department. On Friday morning, a student reported to police that she was …

Hindustan Times

A new study has made shocking revelations about 99942 Apophis. Despite scientists previously having dismissed the possibility of it hitting Earth, Canadian astronomer Paul Wiegert has discovered one condition that may set the giant asteroid on a collision …