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Mars helicopter Ingenuity hits 23rd flight, can’t be stopped
The tiny Mars helicopter Ingenuity continues to power through its flights, exceeding all expectations. Originally slated for just five flights on the red planet, the helicopter…
Jupiter’s moon Europa may have water where life could exist, say scientists | Jupiter
Subterranean pools of salty water may be commonplace on Jupiter’s moon, Europa, according to researchers who believe the sites could be promising spots to search for signs of life beyond…
Record-Breaking Earthquake Swarm Hits Antarctica as Sleeping Volcano Awakens
A long-dormant underwater volcano near Antarctica has woken up, triggering a swarm of 85,000 earthquakes.The swarm, which began in August 2020 and subsided by November of that year, is…
NASA emails reveal internal discussions over calls to rename James Webb Space
New documents suggest that NASA officials dismissed concerns raised by the LGBTQ community over the name of its newest observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope.NASA was aware that…
Posing a hefty problem for particle physics, a particle weighs in heavier than
The model we have for understanding the universe's fundamental particles is a bit like a gearbox: one tiny change to any one single particles' properties throws off…
NASA rolls moon rocket off launchpad for tweaks before next test
The NASA team is preparing to roll the 322-foot-tall (98-meter-tall) Artemis I rocket stack, including the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, back into the Vehicle Assembly…
Nasa’s Mars rover and the ‘seven minutes of terror’
The US space agency (Nasa) has released an animation showing how its one-tonne Perseverance rover will land on Mars on 18 February.The robot is being sent to a crater called Jezero where…
A truck-size shark washed up on a Maine beach. How did it die?
Fishers in Bremen, Maine, discovered a dead shark the size of a pickup truck on their local shore Tuesday (Jan. 5), according to news sources. Tanner Fields, who was one of the first to…
All Dark Matter in the Universe Could Be Primordial Black Holes – Formed From the
By Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
December 28, 2020Baby universes branching off of our universe shortly after the Big Bang appear to us as black holes.…
Planets of Dusk and Dawn, a Lunar Eclipse, and the Coma Star Cluster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MPEZIqb2a4What’s Up for May? The planets of dusk and dawn, a lunar eclipse, and the Coma star cluster.Sky chart showing Mercury low in the western sky on…