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SpaceX rocket launches Sirius XM digital radio satellite, nails nighttime landing at sea

Approximately 9 minutes later, the booster's first stage returned to Earth, landing on one of SpaceX's two drone ships, called "Just Read The Instructions" stationed out in the Atlantic Ocean. The launch occurred at the start of a nearly 2-hour window.

Dragon capsule delivers 7300 pounds of cargo to International Space Station

The tardigrades and squid are part of scientific investigations to examine biological changes caused by microgravity might affect humans. The two solar array wings will augment the space station's aging electrical grid. After a smooth rendezvous, ...

SpaceX delivers for SiriusXM with successful midnight hour launch

A Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral early Sunday with a high-power digital radio satellite for SiriusXM, marking SpaceX's 18th Falcon 9 flight since Jan. 1, but just the third dedicated to external commercial customers in a year dominated by ...

SiriusXM to replenish radio broadcast fleet with launch early Sunday

SiriusXM will get a new radio broadcasting satellite with a launch scheduled early Sunday from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, following the failure of an identical spacecraft after a launch last December. The high ...

NASA's Juno to make the closest visit to Jupiter's biggest moon Ganymede in 20 years

No probe has gotten a good view of Jupiter's largest moon since 2000, when NASA's Galileo spacecraft swung past the strange world, which is the largest moon in the whole solar system. But on Monday (June ...

Falcon 9 launch timeline with SXM 8

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral early Sunday, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the SXM 8 radio broadcasting satellite into orbit around 32 minutes later. The 229- ...

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity set for 7th Red Planet flight on Sunday

Ingenuity's handlers are prepping the 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper for its seventh Martian flight, which will take place no earlier than Sunday (June 6). The plan is to send Ingenuity to a new airfield, about 350 feet (105 meters) south of its current location on the ...

Rare shiny clouds spotted on Mars and more top science stories this week

CNN

CNN

(CNN) As far as we know, Earth is a unicorn. We have yet to find a planet quite like ours. Think of what you notice on Earth each day: the shapes of clouds, how hot the sun feels on your skin, the colors of the sky when the sun sets. Now imagine standing on ...

EarthSky

Are organic salts on Mars a clue to life?

EarthSky

Robotic rover on brownish rocky terrain with hills in background. The Curiosity rover took this "selfie" photo on May 12, 2019. The rover has found indirect evidence for organic salts on Mars, which could provide valuable clues about past habitable conditions ...

The New York Times

Why AI Should Be Afraid of Us

The New York Times

Because benevolent bots are suckers. Plus, racism in medical journals, the sperm-count "crisis" and more in the Friday edition of the Science Times newsletter.