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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just set a new reusability record, on what may have been its final flight. The Falcon 9 launched 21 of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites today (Aug. 28), lifting off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 3:48 a.m. EDT …

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A white Blue Origin suborbital rocket stands on its launch pad at dusk in West Texas. Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket on the launch pad. (Image credit: Blue Origin).

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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) on a H-IIA rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center on Sep. 7, 2023. The diminutive lander made a successful, yet lopsided, landing on the rim of Shioli …

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SpaceX's black and white Polaris Dawn Falcon 9 rocket stands on the. SpaceX won’t launch the four-astronaut Polaris Dawn mission until Aug. 30, 2024 …

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SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket has been grounded, at least for a little while. A Falcon 9 successfully launched 21 of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites this morning (Aug. 28), sending them to orbit on the record-breaking 23rd mission for the rocket’s …

ABC News

A university professor is about to venture out of this world to carry out a science experiment decades in the making. Robert Ferl, director of the University of Florida’s Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology, will be aboard …

The New York Times

“There’s no free lunch,” said Sam Vickery, a neuroscientist at the Jülich Research Center in Germany and an author of the study. The 86 billion neurons in the human brain cluster into hundreds of …

NPR

A group of scientists say in new research that matching dinosaur tracks found in modern-day Brazil and Cameroon were made 120 million years ago along that narrow passage before the continents separated. “There was just …

Yahoo News

On Sept. 8, 2024, a satellite named Salsa will re-enter the atmosphere and burn up. What makes this re-entry different is that its operators have carefully guided it down from 81,250 miles (130,000 km) to burn up safely over a hand-picked region of the …

CBS News

A SpaceX re-useable booster in its 23rd flight tipped over and burst into flames while landing on a drone ship at sea after doing its part to get 21 Starlink satellites into orbit, the company and Spaceflight Now report. SpaceX said on X that, “After a …