The is the surface of Mars. Photographed earlier today.

Anyone in Europe seeing aurora tonight so far?

In the latest episode of Dead Planets Society, we try to give the Milky Way more arms. It's a beautiful galaxy, but a bit boring -- so we called up Vivian U to see if we could make galaxies look wayyyy cooler newscientist.com/article/243008…

my bluetooth headset keeps connecting to my upstairs neighbor Bill's work calls. i am not Bill. i want to do *my* work calls. how do i stop this

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It's the Dead Planets Society moment you've all been waiting for: we're takin' out Mars newscientist.com/article/243277…

Update: we now have visual confirmation that the Chang'e-6 ascent module, with its lunar samples, has blasted off from the surface of the Moon! Credit: CNSA

Finally.

The first Starliner launch is a pretty big deal - if all goes well, this means the US has two independent launch providers

This little wave through the window of the Boeing Space Starliner capsule really made my day ht 📸Trevor Mahlmann🚀

One of the more amazing spacecraft photos I've seen: SpaceX's Dragon "Endeavour" backing away from the International Space Station, with only the capsule's navigation lights and engine plume illuminating the darkness of space. Credit: Cosmonaut Nikolay Chub

It was great fun being a guest on the Dead Planets Society podcast with Chelsea Whyte and Leah Crane !

once got my head stuck between the ground and the ceiling in a cave. i don't go in caves anymore

This is a photo of the International Space Station. Taken not from the ground, but from a Maxar Technologies satellite also in orbit! And, if you look closely, you can spot the The Boeing Company Starliner docked to ISS!!

Eerie and cool

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This week's episode of Dead Planets Society is one of the most fun and most unhinged ever newscientist.com/article/243774…

“If they had only selected one provider, it would have been Boeing, because SpaceX was the risky prospect at the time. So in a way, this is a triumph of the Commercial Crew Program,” our Executive Director Laura Seward Forczyk 🌙💫🚀 told New Scientist. Read more: newscientist.com/article/244542…