SpaceX sends 24 Starlink satellites into Earth orbit on Falcon 9 launch from California

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SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Sunday (June 28), continuing...

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Australia boosts shark-spotting drone coverage at Sydney beaches

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Australia will expand shark-spotting drone coverage year-round at beaches across Sydney and beyond starting July 1, according...

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NASA races to save Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with daring rescue mission

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NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue...

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‘Superman Returns’ at 20: Is it a sequel? Is it a reboot? Two decades on, we’re still not sure

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It's a contested field, but John Williams' majestic "Superman" theme is up there with the best the...

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Japanese probe set for super-close flyby on July 5: ‘We’re going to discover another beast to put in the zoo of asteroids’

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Japan's Hayabusa2 sample-return spacecraft is on target to make one of the closest ever flybys of a...

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Off-center stellar death points to wandering supermassive black hole stripped of its own galaxy

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Astronomers have uncovered new details about a black hole involved in a tidal disruption event named AT2024tvd,...

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Watch China’s Tiangong space station cross the moon in stunning amateur footage

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Efrain Morales captured a breathtaking view of the Tiangong space station crossing the moon from Puerto Rico....

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June 28, 2011: Kerberos is discovered

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On June 28, 2011, Pluto’s moon Kerberos was discovered by a team using the Hubble Space Telescope,...

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Watch SpaceX launch 15,000-pound SiriusXM satellite to orbit tonight

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SpaceX will launch a big SiriusXM radio satellite to orbit from Florida's Space Coast tonight (June 28),...

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Could future astronauts use oysters as water filters? Here’s why one company thinks so

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Engineers looking for safe water and recycled air for astronauts should look no further than nature, according...

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The Sky Today on Sunday, June 28: Mercury stands still

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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column.  June 27: Mars meets...

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Listening to the One Place That Swallows Everything

Astrobitica June 27, 2026 0

Scientists have found a way to study the event horizon of a black hole, previously deemed impossible,...

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Live coverage: SpaceX plans Sunday Starlink launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base

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File: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base...

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Hot Jupiter CoRoT-2b Rotates Backward to Orbit

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Hot Jupiter exoplanets have altered our understanding of the universe since the discovery of 51 Pegasi b...

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Deuterium in Comets Tell Interesting Tales

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Comets have played an interesting role in astronomy history, being seen as omens by many cultures in...

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The Vulcan’s nest

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Piotr Czerski, taken from Trzonów, Poland Galaxies M81 and M82 lie amid large clouds of galactic cirrus...

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Astronomers Spot a Possible Supernova Remnant Near the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton may have found a supernova remnant near the supermassive black...

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Burned-home soils showed uneven lead, arsenic contamination after Los Angeles wildfires

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A study published in Environmental Science and Technology Letters on May 12 reported a chemical analysis of...

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World’s largest particle smasher halts for upgrade to boost hunt for dark matter

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The world’s most powerful particle accelerator will shut down operations on Monday for four years of renovations...

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‘Logan’s Run’ at 50: Remembering this disco-age sci-fi classic on its golden anniversary

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The 1970s were truly when science fiction cinema made astronomical leaps into the public's consciousness and catapulted...

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