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NEWS 🚨: Four NASA volunteers have now spent an entire year sealed inside a fake Mars base
They've grown crops, done simulated Marswalks and have only talked to their families through delayed emails
They get out October 31st
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The Orionid meteor shower, made of debris from Halley's Comet, peaks TONIGHT (Oct 21) ☄️
The best views come in the few hours before dawn
About 10-20 meteors per hour expected
The Orionid meteor shower, made of debris from Halley's Comet, peaks TONIGHT (Oct 21) ☄️
The best views come in the few hours before dawn
About 10-20 meteors per hour expected
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NEWS 🚨: Suspected Chinese rocket debris up to 30 feet across crashed into a palm oil plantation in Indonesia
Indonesia’s space agency linked it to a Chinese Zhuque-2E rocket stage that reentered on Oct. 18
No one was hurt. Workers had already left the area for the day
The US Space Force plans to more than double its size to 25,000 troops by 2031
Its Middle East command is reportedly set to grow fivefold, as satellites become central to US military operations in the region 🛰️
ICYMI, we tweeted yesterday that a different piece was found in a cornfield in a Minnesota... xitter.cf/latestinspace/status/2…
NEWS 🚨: Suspected Chinese rocket debris up to 30 feet across crashed into a palm oil plantation in Indonesia
Indonesia’s space agency linked it to a Chinese Zhuque-2E rocket stage that reentered on Oct. 18
No one was hurt. Workers had already left the area for the day
NEWS 🚨: A startup lit up a stretch of California desert at night to show how satellites could one day beam sunlight to Earth
Reflect Orbital used ground-based spotlights to simulate sunlight reflected from orbit
The idea is to sell access to unlimited light anywhere on Earth
BREAKING 🚨: Uzbekistan has become the 77th country to sign the Artemis Accords, agreeing to peace on the Moon, Mars, and beyond
6 years ago today, NASA's OSIRIS-REx touched down on asteroid Bennu and grabbed a piece of it
It became NASA's first asteroid sample ever brought back to Earth
NEWS 🚨: NASA's Jared Isaacman will give an update Friday on speeding up the return to the Moon 🌕
Artemis III was about 90 days behind schedule last month
BREAKING 🚨: An 11-foot chunk of what's widely believed to be a Chinese rocket crashed in a Minnesota farmer's cornfield
No injuries were reported, and the object’s origin has not yet been officially confirmed
Source 🔗 arstechnica.com/space/2026/1…
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NEWS 🚨: Japan's mission to grab a piece of a Mars moon and bring it home launches TODAY at 3:41 p.m. ET 🚀
Phobos samples are due back on Earth in 2031
BREAKING 🚨: Elon Musk says he'll give one SpaceX share to every kid in America next year 🚀
CNBC estimates that's about $10.5 billion worth of stock, and Musk says it's "the first of many"
9 years ago today, astronomers spotted ʻOumuamua,’ the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system ☄️




















