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Boeing making progress on Starliner software for test flight in March

NASA and Boeing officials are officially targeting March 29 for the second Starliner Orbital Flight Test, a repeat of the first test flight in 2019, when software problems prevented the capsule from docking with the space station.

What Mars sounds like, and the rover's welcome party

CNN

CNN

MUST WATCH. See NASA's big plans for its new Mars rover, Perseverance 01:57. (CNN) Mars is about to be a very busy place when three separate missions arrive at the red planet in February. One of those missions includes NASA's Perseverance rover.

A 'super-puff' planet like no other

The core mass of the giant exoplanet WASP-107b is much lower than what was thought necessary to build up the immense gas envelope surrounding giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn, astronomers at Université de Montréal have found. This intriguing ...

Lasers and molecular tethers create perfectly patterned platforms for tissue engineering

In a major step toward transforming this hope into reality, researchers at the University of Washington have developed a technique to modify naturally occurring biological polymers with protein-based biochemical messages that affect cell behavior. Their ...

Virgin's satellite launcher reaches orbit for first time

An air-launched rocket built by Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit reached orbit Sunday for the first time, delivering 10 experimental CubeSats for NASA and positioning the company for the start of commercial operations. "We couldn ...

The New Yorker

Have We Already Been Visited by Aliens?

The New Yorker

An eminent astrophysicist argues that signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life have appeared in our skies. What's the evidence for his extraordinary claim? By Elizabeth Kolbert.

Latch, load and release: Elastic motion makes click beetles click, study finds

A new study examines the forces behind this super-fast energy release and provides guidelines for studying extreme motion, energy storage and energy release in other small animals like trap-jaw ants and mantis shrimps.

321 Launch: Space news you may have missed over the past week

Florida Today

Florida Today

Redstone Arsenal, an Army post adjacent to Huntsville in the northern portion of the state, was selected by Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett for the command's permanent home moving forward, a process that will take six years to transition from Colorado.

A new archaeology for the Anthropocene era

Indiana Jones and Lara Croft have a lot to answer for. Public perceptions of archaeology are often thoroughly outdated, and these characterisations do little to help. Archaeology as practiced today bears virtually no resemblance to the tomb raiding portrayed in ...

Researchers: Climate change will alter the position of the Earth's tropical rain belt

Future climate change will cause a regionally uneven shifting of the tropical rain belt—a narrow band of heavy precipitation near the equator—according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions. This development may threaten ...