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Spaceflight Now

An Airbus-built communications satellite rocketed into orbit early Saturday from Cape Canaveral on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher, bound for a high-altitude perch in geostationary orbit to beam hundreds of TV and radio channels to Eutelsat customers …

Space.com

In a game where you can build nearly anything, one 18-year-old spent two months creating and sharing the whole observable universe. Christopher Slayton, 18, is a long-time aficionado of Minecraft, a game that allows people to create castles, …

Space.com

A deep-space mission is celebrating the first anniversary of its launch from Earth by zipping closer to the planet than the International Space Station’s orbit. NASA’s Lucy mission launched on Oct. 16, 2021, bound on a 12-year journey to explore the …

San Francisco Chronicle

The meteor shower will be visible “all across the Bay Area,” Burress said, but like most celestial events, the best viewing spots are where the sky is darkest and clearest — meaning free from bright lights and cloudy weather conditions.

Medical Xpress

Brett Kagan, who led the study published Wednesday in the journal Neuron, told AFP his findings open the door to a new type of research in which neurons could one day be used as biological information processors, complementing digital computers.

Singularity Hub

In July, a puzzling new image of a distant extreme star system surrounded by surreal concentric geometric rings had even astronomers scratching their heads. The picture, which looks like a kind of “cosmic thumbprint,” came from the James Webb Space …

Duluth News Tribune

Halley’s Comet may only come around every 76 years (it’s due back in 2061), but the dust and dirt the sun boils from its nucleus during each return supplies the material for not one but two annual meteor showers. Halley orbit.

Space.com

Exactly one year after it launched on Oct. 16, 2021, Lucy will skim Earth’s atmosphere in a maneuver to facilitate its 12-year-mission to visit the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. At its closest approach, Lucy will pass Earth at around 220 miles (350 kilometers) …

Hawaii News Now

According to NASA, the Orionid meteor shower peaks every year in mid-October, with optimum viewing on Oct. 21. The Orionids are known for their brightness and their speed. NASA says the meteors …

WPXI Pittsburgh

Moonshot Museum is located inside the headquarters of space company ASTROBOTIC Technology on North Lincoln Avenue. The company builds lunar landers and lunar rovers. “It feels so great to …