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What Killed the Dinosaurs? An Asteroid or a Comet?
Two papers examine if the object that impacted the Earth, created the Chicxulub crater, and wiped out the dinosaurs was a comet or an asteroid.
Neutron Star in SN1987A May Have Been Found
Using the ALMA telescope, scientists have found potential evidence of the as-yet-undiscovered neutron star at the center of supernova 1987A.
News Roundup: Mars, Venus, Moon Rocks, and Galaxies
A quick roundup of images from Mars and Venus, plus a new study of Moon rocks, and cold gas forming early galaxies.
Random Space Fact: Gamma Cassiopeiae Named by Gus Grissom
Your random space fact of the week comes community member UncWilly who told us about a visible star in Cassiopeia that had no traditional Arabic or Latin name until the mid-twentieth century.
This Week in Rocket History: Friendship 7
On February 20, 1962, John Glenn was launched into space from Cape Canaveral in the Friendship 7Mercury capsule, sitting on top of an Atlas LV-3B launch vehicle.
Cygnus NG-15 Resupply Mission Lifts Off From Wallops
The Cygnus NG-15 spacecraft was launched on February 20 at 17:36 UTC aboard a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket from the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island in Virginia.
Another 60 Starlink Satellites in Orbit, Booster Lost
On February 16 at 03:59 UTC, SpaceX’s Booster 1059 made its sixth flight from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with another sixty Starlink satellites onboard.
Roscosmos Launches Progress MS-16 Resupply Mission to ISS
Progress MS-16 is an ISS resupply mission that launched on February 15 at 04:45 UTC from Site 31-6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
NASA’s TESS Finds Planetary System in Young Stellar Stream
A trio of exoplanets larger than Earth were found in orbit around a relatively young star in a recently discovered stellar stream.
