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Dave Adalian

OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample container finally unstuck

After months of effort, NASA has finally removed two stubborn fasteners that prevented access to the asteroid sample from Bennu.

Kelly Kizer Whitt

Deborah Byrd

Dave Adalian

January 13, 2024

X-37B spaceplane launched atop SpaceX Falcon Heavy

The Space Force X-37B spaceplane launched Thursday, December 28, 2023. The reusable craft is carrying experiments and test equipment on its latest mission.

Dave Adalian

December 29, 2023

SpaceX wraps up Starlink launches for October

SpaceX's final Starlink launch for the month took flight from Florida at 23:20 UTC on October 30, 2023. Learn more here.

Lia De La Cruz

Dave Adalian

October 30, 2023

Confirmed! BlueWalker 3 satellite outshines 99% of stars

A new study - published in Nature on October 2, 2023 - confirmed that AST SpaceMobile's satellite BlueWalker 3 does outshine 99% of the stars.

Kelly Kizer Whitt

Dave Adalian

Deborah Byrd

October 4, 2023

A new Earthlike planet in the distant Kuiper Belt?

A recent computer model predicts a new Earthlike planet that lies hidden in the outermost solar system. Will we search for it? Will we find it?

Dave Adalian

Deborah Byrd

September 13, 2023

Crew-7 to dock with ISS Sunday. Watch here

The Crew-7 launched the morning of August 26. It's now on the way to the ISS, arriving early Sunday, August 27, with 4 crew members aboard.

Dave Adalian

August 27, 2023

1st Russia moon mission in 47 years crashes into moon

The 1st Russia moon mission in nearly half a century reportedly spun out of control and has crashed into the lunar surface.

Dave Adalian

August 20, 2023

Can we predict earthquakes now? No, but there’s news

It hasn't been possible before now to predict earthquakes. But 2 French researchers now claim to have discovered a way to do it.

Dave Adalian

August 2, 2023

World’s biggest permafrost crater growing, as Earth warms

New drone footage has revealed details of the world's biggest permafrost crater - Batagaika Crater in Russia's far east - and its rapid growth.

Dave Adalian

July 26, 2023

Ivory-billed woodpecker isn’t extinct (again)

A recent paper presents evidence the ivory-billed woodpecker is not extinct. U.S. Fish & Wildlife will decide whether to remove the bird from the list of endangered species this year.

Dave Adalian

June 14, 2023

Dave Adalian

Award-winning reporter and editor Dave Adalian's fascination with the cosmos began during a long-ago summer school trip. That fieldtrip never ended, and still Dave pursues adventures under the night sky. Dave grew up in California's Tulare County - where the San Joaquin Valley meets the Sierra Nevada - a wilderness larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined. He studied English, American literature and mass communications at the College of the Sequoias and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has worked as a reporter and editor for a variety news publications on- and offline during a career spanning more than 30 years.