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Astronomers want to build the next-generation Arecibo telescope
The Arecibo Telescope was an amazing tool for astronomers. Built in the early 1960s, it had a 1,000-foot-wide dish and was capable of both receiving and transmitting radio signals. It...
More anthropogenic bromoform found in lower atmosphere than thought
A team of atmospheric scientists and oceanologists from the University of Saskatchewan, GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel and Utrecht University, has found that there is more man-made bromoform...
Military drones are swarming Ukraine, other conflicts -- with no international rules
Loud explosions rock the evening sky. Streaks of light appear like comets. Missiles rain down. Below, people scramble for cover. The injured are taken on stretchers -- the dead, buried....
Research 'solves' mystery of Jupiter's stunning color changes
Academics at the University of Leeds believe they could have found the answer to a long-running mystery behind Jupiter's famous "stripes."
New advance for detection of tree heights with satellite imagery
The pixel size of satellite imagery is getting finer and finer in the last decade with the development spaceborne cameras. What is in store for Earth observations if the 10-cm...
Private-astronauts-arrive-at-International-Space Station
After Sunday's launch from Florida, a four-member crew took 19 hours to reach the International Space Station, docking with the orbital complex at 9:12 a.m. EDT.
Researchers explore the inner ring of CI Tauri
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has probed the inner dusty ring of a young star known as CI Tauri (or CI Tau for short)....
Saturn’s rings may be no more than 400 million years old
Saturn’s rings might have formed while trilobites scuttled about on Earth. Space dust has been accumulating on the icy halos for no more than 400 million years, researchers report in the May...
Watch: Brittney Griner shouts 'I'm back' in emotional WNBA home return
Brittney Griner sank a 3-pointer and shouted "I'm back" during the Phoenix Mercury's game against the Chicago Sky, her first game in Phoenix since being released from captivity in Russia.
How Artemis 2 moon astronaut Jeremy Hansen helped find a rare crater on Earth
A surprise crater find in Saskatchewan may pay off big for Artemis 2 astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who was on the expedition. He may see a similar crater type on the...
Instrument to measure asteroid gravity tested for space
The first instrument to directly measure gravity on the surface of an asteroid has undergone testing in ESA’s Mechanical Systems Laboratory.
Huginn Mission - The Space Messenger
Video: 00:03:54 The name of Andreas’s second mission to the Space Station is ‘Huginn’. Inspired by Norse mythology, the name is taken from one of two ravens who serve the god Odin....
The Huginn mission – an overview
ESA Astronaut Andreas Mogensen will fly to the International Space Station for his second mission called Huginn, in late summer of 2023. It will be a mission of firsts for...
Private mission carrying Saudi astronauts launches to ISS
The second-ever private mission to the International Space Station (ISS), organized by Axiom Space, blasted off from the southern US state of Florida Sunday, carrying the first two Saudi astronauts...
Watch SpaceX Dragon carrying private Ax-2 astronauts dock with the space station Monday morning
A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying the four astronauts of the private Ax-2 mission arrive at the International Space Station Monday morning (May 22), and you can watch the action live.
SpaceX launches Ax-2 private astronaut mission to station, 1st Saudi woman in space on board (video)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida today (May 21), kicking off the pioneering private Ax-2 mission to the space station.
SpaceX launch of private Ax-2 astronauts just put the 600th person in orbit
The 600th person to enter Earth orbit, Rayyanah Barnawi of Saudi Arabia, is now on her way to the International Space Station on Axiom-2, the second commercial mission to fly...
Crew of four lifts off on Axiom mission to International Space Station
A crew of four lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon rocket late Sunday afternoon on an Axiom Space-sponsored visit to the International Space Station.
Build-A-Bear creates fluffy 'zero-g indicator' for Axiom Space Ax-2 crew
The zero-g indicator flying on the second private mission to the International Space Station may be the first that needed assembly. Ax-2's 'GiGi' is the first Build-A-Bear to launch into...
Weird alien world may be a planetary sauna
Stressful day at the office? Muscles need soothing? A trip to a newly described exoplanet—featuring a thick saunalike steam atmosphere—may be in order. Of course, it would be a long trip for a...
Weird alien world may be a planetary sauna
Stressful day at the office? Muscles need soothing? A trip to a newly described exoplanet—featuring a thick saunalike steam atmosphere—may be in order. Of course, it would be a long trip for a...
After outcry, disgraced sexual harasser removed from astronomy manuscript
Within 2 weeks after a preprint was posted to arXiv on 31 March, outrage erupted on Twitter and multiple co-authors requested their names be removed. The issue wasn’t the science, which focused...
After outcry, disgraced sexual harasser removed from astronomy manuscript
Within 2 weeks after a preprint was posted to arXiv on 31 March, outrage erupted on Twitter and multiple co-authors requested their names be removed. The issue wasn’t the science, which focused...
Damage delays restart of Italy’s giant gravitational wave detector
Later this month, physicists will resume their hunt for astrophysical monsters: black holes and neutron stars going bump in the dark and emitting ripples in space called gravitational waves. But one of the...
Damage delays restart of Italy’s giant gravitational wave detector
Later this month, physicists will resume their hunt for astrophysical monsters: black holes and neutron stars going bump in the dark and emitting ripples in space called gravitational waves. But one of the...
Quakes and blasts help scientists understand Earth’s elusive inner core
About the size of Pluto, Earth’s inner core is made of solid iron and helps power the magnetic field that protects life from harmful space radiation. For more than a...
News at a glance: An ancient Mars river, blood screening rules, and sex-research funds blocked
PLANETARY SCIENCE Mars rover spots signs of big river NASA’s Perseverance rover has snapped images indicating a river on Mars once flowed fast and furiously, scientists said last week. The waterway was part...
In first, astronomers see star engulf planet
When a star swallows a planet, does it belch? Leave crumbs? Get bigger? No one could say for sure because no one had witnessed it — until now. Researchers from the Harvard...