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SpaceX Launches Dragon Cargo Ship to Space Station for NASA, Sticks Rocket Landing

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX successfully launched an uncrewed Dragon spacecraft for NASA today (Dec. 5) on the company's final cargo mission of the year , sending fresh supplies to the International Space Station — and also sticking a rocket ...

'Wow.' Astrophysicist Eugene Parker Reacts to Namesake Sun Probe's 1st Science Results (Video)

The first results to come down from NASA's record-setting Parker Solar Probe have impressed the pioneering astrophysicist who lent the spacecraft his name. Yesterday (Dec. 4), mission team members published four studies reporting what the PSP observed ...

Eruptions on Asteroid Bennu Hint at Causes of Space Rock Explosions

For the first time, astronomers have gotten an up-close view of eruptions from an asteroid, shedding light on what might drive such explosions. The findings suggest that many asteroids may be similarly active and reveal that rocks blasting off of asteroids may ...

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Looking Back, Looking Ahead

The Planetary Society

Abigail Fraeman examines how Spirit and Opportunity changed our view of Mars. Feature. What Comes Next on Mars? Javier Gómez-Elvira anticipates the next phase of the search for life on the Red Planet. Your Place In Space, Your Impact. People. Passion.

NASA Planet-Hunting Telescope Spots Massive Burp from a Comet

Scientists have caught their best-ever look at a comet belching out ice, dust and gas — and the observations came courtesy of a mission designed to hunt for alien worlds. Comet outbursts are natural but difficult to spot, since scientists don't quite understand ...

NASA's New Climate Science Recruits Are Elephant Seals with Fancy Hats

Maybe you'd like to deride this seal's fashion choices. Here's why you shouldn't: While this isn't the most ornate fascinator ever to grace a photo shoot, it sparkles with science. That's because the headpiece consists of an antenna plus a sensor that tracks the ...

Police shootings of unarmed black people linked to health problems for black infants

Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

A study of nearly 1,900 fatal police encounters and millions of birth records in California suggests that police killings of unarmed black people may affect the health of black infants before they are even born. Pregnant black women who lived near the site of ...

Fractured Forests Are Endangering Wildlife, Scientists Find

The New York Times

The New York Times

Around the world, humans are fracturing vast forests. Highways snake through the Amazon's rain forests, and Indonesia plans an ambitious transportation grid in Borneo, through some of the largest untouched expanses of tropical forests. If you were to ...

New instrument extends LIGO's reach

Just a year ago, the National Science Foundation-funded Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, was picking up whispers of gravitational waves every month or so. Now, a new addition to the system is enabling the instruments to detect ...

Can a single-celled organism 'change its mind'? New study says yes

Once, single-cell life claimed sole dominion over the earth. For some three billion years, unfathomable generations of unicellular organisms ate, grew and reproduced among only each other. They evolved into predators and prey, thrived and spread across ...