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NASA Opens Untouched Apollo Moon Rock Sample for First Time in 40 Years

NASA has unsealed one of its last untouched samples of Apollo moon rock to prepare for the return of new material by future lunar missions. Scientists at Johnson Space Center's Lunar Curation Laboratory in Houston opened the Apollo 17-recovered sample ...

Record-Holding Moon Mission Marks a Decade in Orbit

Among the dozens of spacecraft that have visited the moon, none can come close to the tenure of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which recently marked a decade studying our sibling world. The spacecraft, nicknamed LRO, began its work in lunar ...

'Pad Abort' Success Keeps Boeing's Starliner on Track for December Launch to Space Station

Boeing's astronaut taxi remains on track for a December demonstration flight to the International Space Station (ISS) after passing a key safety test earlier this week. On Monday (Nov. 4), the CST-100 Starliner capsule used its emergency-escape thrusters to ...

EarthSky

TESS spacecraft is finding hundreds of exoplanets

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Timeline of discoveries of exoplanetary systems within 50 light-years of the sun. Via Project EDEN/Daniel Apai and Benjamin Rackham. By Daniel Apai, University of Arizona and Benjamin Rackham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Within just 50 ...

NASA opens sealed Apollo sample ahead of Artemis missions

NASA scientists opened an untouched rock and soil sample from the Moon returned to Earth on Apollo 17, marking the first time in more than 40 years a pristine sample of rock and regolith from the Apollo era has been opened. It sets the stage for scientists to ...

NASA's Planet-Hunting TESS Spacecraft Snaps Spectacular Panorama of the Milky Way

NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft created a spectacular panorama of the southern sky that shows off our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The panorama includes 208 images that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) took during its first year of science ...

Red, Red Wine Launches to Space Station for Science

Fancy some space wine? A European startup recently launched some of the red stuff to the International Space Station to age in space for 12 months. It's less a tasting test than a true science experiment, as there's very little research on wine making in space ...

A third of California methane traced to a few super-emitters

NASA scientists are helping California create a detailed, statewide inventory of methane point sources—highly concentrated methane releases from single sources—using a specialized airborne sensor. The new data, published this week in the journal Nature ...

Origins of life: new evidence first cells could have formed at the bottom of the ocean

Where did life come from? In recent years, many scientists have shifted from favouring a "primordial soup" in pools of water to hydrothermal vents deep in the ocean as the original source of life on Earth. But one of the biggest problems with this idea is that ...

CNET

The best DNA testing kits for 2019

CNET

Home DNA testing has gone from a niche pursuit to a simple way to map out your family tree. With a simple swab of your cheek or a sample of your saliva, a DNA testing kit can be used to research ancestry or familial origin and determine paternity. And over ...