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• How 'spacewalking' underwater made me feel like I was really in space

  27-10-2026 22:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  I was breathing just fine through my life support systems, but I kept feeling an urge to double check that everything was ok with my "spacesuit" before heading out on this "spacewalk." I have worn many different types of spacesuits on Earth during my career, but for the first time in my life, I knew that I couldn’t just stop to breathe the air outside if there were an emergency. That's because I was underwater. On this excursion, I was leading a simulated space mission underwater called SEA ST
  
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• Astronomers discover the secrets of 'string of pearls' supernova relic and the zombie star at its heart

  27-10-2026 20:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  Scientists are still learning about a cosmic "string of pearls," a unique celestial relic left by a supernova explosion that humanity witnessed around 850 years ago. That is thanks to the most detailed observation of the dandelion-shaped chains of gas and supernova debris that comprise Pa 30, the only supernova remnant of its type observed in the Milky Way. What makes Pa 30 even more unique is that it has a rare "zombie star" at its heart.Supernovas like the one that created Pa 30 are called Typ
  
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• November full moon 2026: When, where and how to see the Beaver Moon

  27-10-2026 19:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  The November full moon reaches maximum illumination at 9:53 a.m. EST (1453 GMT) on Nov. 24, as the lunar disk sits opposite the sun in Earth's sky, appearing fully lit by its rays.November's full moon is traditionally known as the "Beaver Moon", because it rises around the time when the small mammals take refuge in their dens, having stored enough food to survive the long winter months, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac. The Nov. 24 full moon also happens to be the first of three consecutive
  
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• Cowboy Space unveils 'Big Iron' rocket to launch 20,000 AI data centers

  27-10-2026 19:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  PALO ALTO, Calif. — Cowboy Space just showed us how it plans to become a big player in the final frontier.The California-based company, which is run by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt, intends to operate a constellation of 20,000 AI data centers in low Earth orbit (LEO). It will build those satellites in house and launch them on a homegrown rocket — a vehicle Cowboy Space unveiled here on Monday night (Oct. 26), at an event it called "Big Sky Rising.""It's a fundamentally novel approach to
  
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• 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' is getting a killer new comic book series

  27-10-2026 17:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  Matt Dinniman's "Dungeon Crawler Carl" is the hottest science fantasy novel series in the galaxy, and now it's getting a comic book adaptation."Dungeon Crawler Carl" follows the exploits of pantless Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s kitty, Princess Donut, as they compete in an intergalactic reality TV show to decide the fate of planet Earth. Carl and Princess Donut must endure a series of traps and challenges set forth by the neurotic, foot-fetishizing System AI.Dinniman exploded in
  
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• On this day in space! Oct. 27, 1961: NASA launches Saturn I rocket on 1st test flight from Florida to set stage for the mighty Saturn V moon rocket

  27-10-2026 15:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  On Oct. 27, 1961, NASA launched the first test flight of its new Saturn I space launch vehicle. The Saturn I rocket was the United States' first heavy-lift rocket designed to launch big payloads beyond low Earth orbit. This was also the first test flight of any rocket in the Saturn family of rockets, which includes the Saturn V that was used to launch astronauts to the moon during the Apollo program. The Saturn I was enormous compared to every rocket that came before it. It was almost three time
  
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• Mars rover tracks from a historic drive | Space photo of the day for Oct. 27, 2026

  27-10-2026 15:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  Rover tracks can be seen on the Martian surface, left behind by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)NASA's Perseverance Mars rover left a mark on the Martian landscape when it passed a historic milestone driving across the Red Planet. What is it?On Oct. 11, Perseverance passed 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers) driven on Mars. This is farther than anything has ever traveled on the surface of another world, earning the rover the interplanetary driving record. Previously, th
  
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• 'Star Trek' legend and sci-fi luminary Walter Koenig dies at 90

  27-10-2026 13:15 via Latest from Space.com
  
  The "Star Trek" community lost one of its most beloved icons on Sunday, October 25, with the sad passing of Walter Koenig at the age of 90 in his North Hollywood home. Koenig was best known as the U.S.S. Enterprise's Russian navigator Pavel Andreievich Chekov for two seasons on "Star Trek: The Original Series." The popular American actor continued in that role for Paramount's first seven "Star Trek" films, which began in 1979's "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" and ended with 1994's "Star Trek: Ge
  
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• What causes mysterious long delayed radio echoes in Earth's atmosphere?

  27-10-2026 13:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  In 1927, Norwegian civil engineer and amateur radio operator Jørgen Hals made an unusual discovery: while monitoring transmissions from a shortwave radio station in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, he began hearing odd, "delayed" radio echoes, arriving approximately three seconds after the original transmissions, that sometimes accompanied the station's signals."From where this echo comes I cannot say for the present," Hals wrote of his peculiar discovery, adding that he could "only confirm that I r
  
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• SpaceX Falcon 9 launches early morning Starlink mission from California (video)

  27-10-2026 12:04 via Latest from Space.com
  
  A new stack of Starlink satellites is now in orbit following an early morning SpaceX launch from California. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 3:25 a.m. EDT (0725 GMT) on Oct. 27, from from Pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base. The rocket delivered the 27 satellites of Starlink Group 15-16 to low Earth orbit (LEO), and successfully executed its first stage booster landing. The mission's booster, B1082, cut its engines and disengaged from Falcon 9's upper stage approximately 2.5 minutes into fligh
  
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• Astroscale proposes fleet of 'bodyguard' spacecraft to protect satellites from orbital attacks

  27-10-2026 11:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  Technologies developed and tested in orbit to remove space junk and fix broken satellites can be speedily repurposed to build fleets of bodyguard spacecraft to protect important satellites from adversary attacks, space clean-up company Astroscale thinks.Astroscale made history with its 2024 up-close in-orbit inspection of a discarded Japanese rocket stage during the pioneering ADRAS-J mission in low Earth orbit (LEO), the region of space below altitudes of 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers). The fir
  
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