US Navy helicopter and fighter jet crash in separate incidents in the South China Sea.

A US Navy helicopter and a fighter jet both crashed in the same half-hour on Sunday during separate routine operations over the South China Sea, with all crew members safely rescued, the Navy’s Pacific Fleet said. The Navy has launched an investigation into the cause of both…

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On this day in space! Oct. 27, 1961: NASA launches 1st Saturn rocket test flight.

On Oct. 27, 1961, NASA launched the first test flight of its new Saturn I space launch vehicle. The Saturn I 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 S…

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Kamala Harris says she may run for president again.

Former US Vice-President Kamala Harris has told the BBC she may run again for the White House. In her first UK interview, Harris said she would "possibly" be president one day and was confident there will be a woman in the White House in future. Making her strongest…

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Powerful NVIDIA chip launching to orbit next month to pave way for space-based data centers.

An NVIDIA GPU is heading toward its record-setting orbital debut, a trip that will test how data centers could work in the final frontier. The NVIDIA H100 GPU, which is about 100 times more powerful than any processor that has flown in space to date, will fly aboard the Star…

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On this day in space! Oct. 25, 1671: Saturn's Yin-Yang Moon Iapetus Discovered by Giovanni Cassini.

On Oct. 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn! Iapetus was the second moon anyone had ever found orbiting Saturn, and it was the first of four moons Cassini would discover at the ringed planet. The Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huyge…

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Watch SpaceX launch 28 Starlink satellites to orbit from California on Oct. 20.

SpaceX is scheduled to launch another batch of its Starlink satellites to orbit from California early Monday morning (Oct. 20), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites is scheduled to launch from Californi…

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