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Europe’s venerable Ariane 5 rocket faces a bittersweet ending on Tuesday ( arstechnica.com )

Dispelling the myth of the Proton rocket crash of 2 July 2013 ( twitter.com )

I hope spaceflight posts are welcome for now....

There could still be a ninth planet in our solar system. Here's why ( phys.org )

My favourite objects in the night sky. What's yours? ( apod.nasa.gov )

Every time I gaze upon the night sky, I always look for the Pleiades. When I was very young, it was the first thing that I had questioned when looking at the stars. It was faint, but I could see it. I had no idea what I was looking at, or if anyone knew what it was. It was difficult to research as a young child in the early...

Mars has liquid guts and strange insides, InSight suggests ( arstechnica.com )

APOD: Milky Way and Aurora over Antarctica Image Credit & Copyright: LI Hang ( botsin.space )

Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft ( www.independent.co.uk )

Obviously a bit nonsense, but I am curious if anyone can share how they know where the asteroid hit, and how uncommon the steel-titanium alloy is to find.

4 people locked in Martian simulation for a year ( gizmodo.com )

Saturn’s Rings Shine in Webb’s Observations of Ringed Planet – James Webb Space Telescope ( blogs.nasa.gov )

On June 25, 2023, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope turned to famed ringed world Saturn for its first near-infrared observations of the planet. The initial imagery from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) is already fascinating researchers.

NASA's Mars helicopter 'phones home' after no contact for 63 days ( www.france24.com )

Virgin Galactic launches its first commercial space flight ( ground.news )

Astronomers reveal evidence of universe's 'background hum' ( www.france24.com )

Astronomers across the world announced on Thursday that they have found the first evidence of a long-theorised form of gravitational waves that create a "background hum" rumbling throughout the universe.

NASA’s Webb Telescope Cracks a 40-Year-Old Space Mystery ( www.thedailybeast.com )

Asteroid that NASA redirected will pass Earth this weekend ( www.youtube.com )

The story of the time a concord was specialy modified to chase an eclipse ( lemmy.world )

“Concorde ready to intercept the fleeting shadow. Poised like a falcon at the runway awaiting the time, 10:08 UT, to fly up and snare the shadow. The long months of preparation are about complete — the corona to be viewed against the purple sky of space, darkened still further to reveal in full contrast the ethereal white of...