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Astronauts complete 4-spacewalk marathon to fix space station's $2 billion antimatter detector

It took four years of planning, 20 new tools shipped by spacecraft and an unprecedented four-part repair job, but a $2 billion experiment on the International Space Station is all patched up after a spacewalk by astronauts Saturday (Jan. 25). NASA astronaut ...

You can watch two astronauts take a spacewalk to fix a $2 billion space experiment today. Here's how.

NASA is sending a pair of astronauts on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (Jan. 25) to finish fixing a complicated science experiment. Here's how to watch it live. NASA TV began streaming the spacewalk around 5:30 a.m. EST (1030 ...

What should the Mars 2020 rover be named? Nine kids think they know.

Among the posters of planets, rockets and rovers pasted on the sky-blue walls in 9-year-old Oliver Jacobs's bedroom in Arlington, oneobject is missing. The Barrett Elementary student's space shrine doesn't include the under-construction Mars 2020 rover.

Spacewalking astronauts close to fixing cosmic ray detector

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Spacewalking astronauts worked to complete repairs to a cosmic ray detector outside the International Space Station on Saturday and give it new life. It was the fourth spacewalk since November for NASA's Andrew Morgan and ...

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Neuroscientists to build video dataset that catches people looking (at everything)

EurekAlert (press release)

Reno, Nev. - To better understand the organization of the brain and the perceptual tendencies in humans, a team of four scientists are recording video from four head-mounted cameras - with eyetracking and head movement - and assembling a massive video ...

Space Walk Underway For Final Fix Of International Space Station Device

NPR

NPR

Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station began their fourth and final space walk early Saturday to finish a series of repairs aimed at extending the functioning of a cosmic ray detector attached to the spacecraft. The planned six-and-a-half-hour ...

For hottest planet, a major meltdown, study shows

In the scorching atmosphere of exoplanet KELT-9b, even molecules are torn to shreds. Massive gas giants called "hot Jupiters"—planets that orbit too close to their stars to sustain life—are some of the strangest worlds found beyond our solar system.

This Locked Cabinet Holds the Answer to One of the Biggest Questions in Particle Physics

Gizmodo

Gizmodo

A 50-foot ring topped with white insulation sits attached to wires, pipes, and other electrical components in a warehouse on Fermilab's northern Illinois campus. Scientists taking data with this device have the potential to rock the field of particle physics to its ...

Celebrating Spitzer, NASA's infrared telescope retiring after a 16-year mission

Digital Trends

Digital Trends

This week, NASA is saying goodbye to one of its most storied and productive telescopes: The Spitzer Space Telescope, launched in 2003 to investigate our universe in the infrared wavelength. As this remarkable 16-year mission draws to a close, we look ...

The skin of the earth is home to pac-man-like protists

Dayana Agudo, lab manager in staff scientist Ben Turner's soil lab at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Credit: STRI. Pac-Man, the open-mouthed face of the most successful arcade game ever, is much more well-known than any of the ...