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Spaceflight Now

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blazes by the nearly full moon seconds after launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with the Galaxy 33 and 34 communications satellites. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography.

Space.com

Toon is referring to the giant impact hypothesis — a scientific theory that suggests a Mars-size planet named Theia collided with Earth 4.5 billion years ago, launching a salvo of rocky debris into space that eventually coalesced into our moon.

Space.com

A Chinese spacecraft has taken flight to study the sun and improve space-weather predictions. The satellite, known as the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), lifted off atop a Long March 2D rocket on Saturday (Oct. 8) at 7:43 p.m. EDT (2343 …

Space.com

Hermann Bermúdez, a geologist at Montclair State University in New Jersey, assessed the magnitude of the earthquake triggered by the Chicxulub impact by visiting K-Pg mass extinction event outcrops located in Texas, Alabama and Mississippi.

Livescience.com

The surprising subterranean structures could yield clues as to how modern ice sheets will react to rapid warming caused by climate change, researchers say. The buried structures, known as tunnel valleys, are massive …

Livescience.com

The first is that they cause electric currents to flow in Earth’s upper atmosphere, heating the air “just like how your electric blanket works,” Owens said. These geomagnetic storms can create beautiful auroras to appear over polar regions, but they can …

CNET

The Perseids in August might be the most famous annual meteor shower, but October is a sleeper season for shooting star shows that just might produce more total meteors on balance over the full month. Major meteor showers like the Orionids and the …

CBS News

The capsule carried NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, astronaut Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and cosmonaut Anna Kikina of Roscosmos — the first Russian to travel on a SpaceX spaceflight.

TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press

That’s no star but rather the big guy of our solar system, the planet Jupiter. The 88,000-mile-wide planet, named after the king of the gods in Roman mythology, is visible all night long right now and is almost at its closest approach to Earth for 2022.

Noozhawk

Go ahead. Get all the jokes out. You know you want to. I’ve done it, too, but quite honestly, they were all much funnier in seventh grade! In a few days the planet Uranus (pronounced YOU-rah-nus, by the way), will undergo what astronomers call a lunar …