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NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Beams Back Eerie Spacecraft Wreckage From Mars
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has beamed back to Earth eerie yet incredible images of the NASA Perseverance rover wreckage that helped bring it to the Red Planet last year.As reported by…
Earendel star: Hubble Space Telescope sees most distant star ever, 28 billion
It's the farthest detection of a star yet, from 900 million years after the big bang. Astronomers have nicknamed the star Earendel, derived from an Old English words that means "morning…
Gaia’s New Detailed Data From More Than 1.8 Billion Stars
Gaia’s stellar motion for the next 400 thousand years. The stars are in constant motion. To the human eye this movement – known as proper motion – is imperceptible, but Gaia is measuring…
Final SpaceX rocket launch of 2020 to bring sonic booms to Central Florida
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Weather conditions look mostly favorable for the Space Coast’s last launch of the year on Thursday, a mission slated to include Earth-shaking sonic booms generated…
New, More Precise Atomic Clock Could Help Detect Dark Matter and Study Gravity’s
Atoms are trapped in an optical cavity composed of two mirrors. When a “squeezing” laser is set through the cavity, the atoms are entangled, and their frequency is measured with a second…
NASA’s ‘Lunar Backpack’ Could Prevent Astronauts From Getting Lost on the Moon
NASA Planetary Scientist Michael Zanetti testing out the backpack in Potrillo volcanic field in New Mexico.Photo: NASA/Michael ZanettiThe Moon is not the kind of place where you want to…
Warming already baked in will blow past climate goals
FILE - The Jan. 10, 2009 file photo shows a flock of geese flying past a smokestack at the Jeffery Energy Center coal power plant near Emmitt, Kan. A new study says the amount of global…
A dinosaur bigger than T. rex swam and hunted its prey underwater
However, whether some dinosaurs were truly at ease in the water or just stood in the shallows and dipped their heads in to pursue prey as a heron would has divided paleontologists. In an…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Alignment Complete – Capturing Crisp, Focused
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterNASA’s Webb In Full Focus, Ready for Instrument CommissioningThe alignment of <span class="glossaryLink"…
SpaceX Falcon 9 launching with Turkish satellite from Cape Canaveral
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Following a very busy year, SpaceX plans to kick off 2021 with the first launch as soon as Thursday from Cape Canaveral, sending up a Turkish communications…