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SpaceX launches 21 Northrop Grumman military satellites, sticks landing
SpaceX launched 21 Northrop Grumman-built data transport satellites for the U.S. Space Development Agency on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, at 12:39 a.m. PDT on October 10, 2026, five days after an automatic abort halted the first attempt. The first stage, on its sixth flight, landed at Landing Zone 4 a little over seven minutes after liftoff. It was the agency’s fourth Tranche 1 data transport launch, bringing 84 of the 126 Transport Layer satellites to orbit and adding a fourth plane to its military communications and missile-warning network. Video Credit: SpaceX
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Watch Earth drift away as ESA’s Juice spacecraft heads for Jupiter
ESA’s Juice spacecraft has completed its September 28 Earth flyby, sending back a unique view of our planet captured by its onboard monitoring cameras. The footage shows Earth as a thin crescent before revealing almost the entire planet, with Africa visible and the Moon appearing as a tiny grey dot nearby. A final view captured on September 29 shows Earth receding into the distance. Juice passed about 8,640 km above the Indian Ocean, gaining roughly 3.5 km/s in speed as Earth's gravity bent its trajectory on the way to Jupiter. Credit: ESA/Juice/JMC
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Watch SpaceX Dragon splash down off California, returning Crew-12 after 235 days on the ISS
SpaceX's Crew Dragon Freedom splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California at 11:34 a.m. EDT on October 8, 2026, returning NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev from the International Space Station. After a deorbit burn at about 10:46 a.m. EDT, the capsule descended under parachutes to the ocean. The Crew-12 mission launched on February 13, 2026, and kept the crew on the station for 235 days and nearly 3,800 orbits of Earth. Video Credit: SpaceX
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Watch Artemis II's re-entry, parachute deployment and splashdown from inside Orion
NASA's Orion spacecraft carrying the Artemis II crew re-entered Earth's atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego at 8:07 p.m. EDT on April 10, 2026, in cabin-camera footage taken from the pilot's forward window. The clips show Earth as Orion approached the atmosphere, then re-entry and the deployment of its parachutes. Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen were aboard, completing the first crewed Orion flight, a nearly 10-day test flight around the Moon that launched on April 1. Video Credit: NASA
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 undocks from the ISS and begins journey home
Watch NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 begin its journey home after Dragon undocks from the International Space Station. After 237 days in space, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev are heading back to Earth. The four astronauts are scheduled to splash down off the coast of California at around 11:34 a.m. EDT on October 8. Video Credit: NASA
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"Bye, ISS": Watch the moment Dragon’s hatch closes as Crew-12 heads home
A bittersweet goodbye as the current ISS crew sees Crew-12 off before the Dragon hatch closes. NASA astronaut Anil Menon shared the moment from the ISS on Wednesday, wishing NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev a safe journey home after 237 days in space. Crew-12 is heading back aboard Dragon after completing their research mission, with undocking marking the start of their roughly 27-hour journey to Earth. The four astronauts are scheduled to splash down off the coast of California at around 11:34 a.m. EDT on October 8. Video Credit: Anil Menon via X
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Amazing Starlink video shows SpaceX's Starship deploying V3 satellites into orbit
In new footage shared by SpaceX, Ship 41 can be seen deploying Starlink V3 satellites into orbit during Flight 14. The view from Starlink offers a striking look at the first deployment of SpaceX’s next-generation Starlink satellites. This Starship mission, the first to reach orbit, was launched on September 28, 2026, from Texas. Video Credit: Starlink
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Dawn on Mars: NASA's Curiosity captures the most detailed view of Martian wind-carved cliffs
NASA’s Curiosity rover captured the Sun rising over wind-carved formations called yardangs on Mars. The rover took this six-image panorama on August 11, 2026, from the lower slopes of Mount Sharp. The yardang layer stretches about 10 miles (16 kilometers) and could reveal more about Mars’ ancient environment when Curiosity reaches it in 2027. Video Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS; NASA/JPL-Caltech; NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS
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Falcon 9 crosses the Moon in stunning slow-motion SpaceX footage
Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 cross the Moon in stunning slow motion as it launches Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft. The footage clearly shows the rocket rising, its exhaust plume, and its silhouette against the Moon. Video Credit: SpaceX
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Hubble data from 1999 may now have found a planet born from a dead star
Researchers using archival data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reported on October 5, 2026, in Nature Astronomy that the white dwarf HS 0209+0832 may host a second-generation planet, one formed from material its star ejected as it died. Hubble's 1999 observations held about 100 unidentified chemical features, and a team led by Jamie Williams of the University of Warwick matched many of them to niobium, a heavy element made in dying stars. NASA's retired FUSE mission confirmed the niobium, and four months of TESS data showed repeating brightness changes consistent with a Jupiter-sized planet about 3.7 million miles from the star. Williams plans to use Hubble over the next several years to study how common such planets are. Credit: NASA Video Credit: White Dwarf and Exoplanet Animations created by Chris Smith and Scott Wiessinger
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NASA-SpaceX Crew-12 mission concludes as astronauts prepare to return to Earth on October 8
NASA and SpaceX are targeting October 7 for the return of Crew-12 from the International Space Station. Dragon is scheduled to undock at 8:05 a.m. ET, with splashdown targeted for approximately 11:34 a.m. ET on October 8 off the coast of California. The four-member crew has spent nearly eight months aboard the ISS and has completed the formal handover with Crew-13 ahead of its return to Earth. Video Credit: NASA / ESA / GettyImages
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NASA's Hubble tracked a supernova fading over one year in a galaxy 70 million light-years away
NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope tracked the fading light of supernova SN 2018gv in the barred spiral galaxy NGC 2525, about 70 million light-years away in the constellation Puppis. The supernova was first spotted in mid-January 2018, and Hubble observed it from February 2018 to February 2019, producing a time-lapse released on October 1, 2020, that shows it outshining the galaxy's brightest stars before fading away. It was a Type Ia supernova, which reaches a consistent peak brightness about 5 billion times that of the Sun, so astronomers use such explosions as cosmic tape measures to calculate distances to galaxies. Using those distances, Adam Riess's team had narrowed its measurement of the universe's expansion rate to 1.9% uncertainty by 2020, aiming for 1%. Credit: ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey, L. Calçada, Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)
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SpaceX Starship Flight 14 recap: Liftoff, first-ever orbit, 26 satellites deployed and fiery Pacific splashdown
Starship completed its first flight to orbit on Flight 14, launched from Pad 2 at Starbase, Texas, on September 28, 2026, after 13 suborbital test flights. Ship 41 reached orbit, deployed all 26 Starlink V3 satellites, and splashed down in the North Pacific, while Booster 21 splashed down in the Gulf of America. The booster lost a few engines and the ship lost one Raptor Vacuum engine on ascent, but both finished their flights. Flight 15 is targeted no earlier than October 19 and could attempt the first catch of a Starship upper stage, though SpaceX hasn't confirmed a date or plan. Video Credit: SpaceX