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Pine Barrens ablaze as seen from orbit | Space photo of the day for April 28, 2025
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
Satellite imagery reveals scope of damage from one of the largest fires New Jersey has seen in decades.

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 1st of 2 planned Starlink launches in 2 days, lands booster at sea (video)
By Josh Dinner published
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

'I didn't look too good because I didn't feel too good': NASA astronaut Don Pettit explains why he seemed so unwell after landing (video)
By Mike Wall published
Seventy-year-old NASA astronaut Don Pettit looked pretty peaked shortly after returning to Earth from the ISS this month. And he was pretty peaked — he'd just thrown up on the Kazakh steppe.

China's Shenzhou 20 astronauts take control of Tiangong space station (video)
By Andrew Jones published
China's outgoing Shenzhou 19 crew have handed over the reins of the Tiangong space station to a new set of astronauts.

Watch Atlas V rocket launch 1st big batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper internet satellites today afer delay
By Mike Wall last updated
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket will launch Amazon's first big batch of Project Kuiper broadband satellites today (April 28), and you can watch it live.

The Outer Worlds 2: Release window, trailers, story details & everything else we know
By Fran Ruiz published
Space isn't safe from money-hungry corporations, and sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds 2 will play with that idea in 2025. Here's everything we know about Obsidian's sci-fi sequel.

Scientists find giant, hidden gas cloud only 300 light-years away: 'This cloud is literally glowing in the dark'
By Keith Cooper published
A newly found, huge cloud near our solar system probably won't form stars, but will rather disperse as part of a feedback cycle that regulates star formation.

NYT bestselling author Daniel Wilson's next book is 'Hole in the Sky,' an alien first contact story on a Cherokee reservation, and it's already been picked up by Netflix (interview)
By Jeff Spry published
'This really digs into two of my favorite things: where I'm from in Oklahoma, and robots and science fiction'
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