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Ars takes a clean room tour of JPL’s asteroid-orbiting Psyche spacecraft
Enlarge / Artist's illustration of NASA's Psyche spacecraft, set to launch in August 2022. The Psyche mission will explore a metal-rich…
SpaceX’s private Ax-1 astronaut flight cleared for launch pending NASA Artemis 1 moon
The commercial spaceflight company Axiom Space is cleared to launch the world's first all-private mission to the International Space Station in April, but only after a critical test of…
Dark energy camera snaps deepest photo yet of galactic siblings
Deepest, widest view of the Large Magellanic Cloud from SMASH. Credit: NOIRLab
Images from the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar…
Watch Rocket Lab launch 2 BlackSky satellites into orbit today
Update for 9:45 am ET: Rocket Lab has successfully launched its Without Mission a Beat flight to deliver two new BlackSky Earth observation satellites into orbit. Read our full launch…
NASA’s Artemis I mega moon rocket test scrubbed for second time
The wet dress rehearsal, as NASA calls it, simulates every stage of launch without the rocket actually leaving the launchpad. This includes powering on the 322-foot-tall (98-meter-tall)…
Nasa spots record breaking, huge comet headed towards Earth
Nasa has spotted a record-breakingly large comet headed nearer to Earth.Its icy nucleus is bigger than any ever seen – measuring around 80 miles across, and 50 times bigger than the heart…
T-Rex Arms May Have Evolved to Be Short For Protection During ‘Feeding Frenzies’
The massive and fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex may be the most recognizable dinosaur of all time, but it has long been the butt of jokes due to its tiny, seemingly pointless arms. But…
Photographer captures ‘5-hour close-up’ video of the Sun
A skygazer has revealed incredible footage of the Sun close up in stunning detail.The flaming ball was filmed by a special solar telescope for a staggering five…
Scientists Have Finally Sequenced the Complete Human Genome – And Revealed New
Sequencing the last 8% of the human genome has taken 20 years and the invention of new techniques for reading long sequences of the genetic code, which consists of the nucleotides C, T,…