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A moon rock in the Oval Office: President Joe Biden's lunar display

A view of the Resolute desk seen during an early preview of the redesigned Oval Office awaiting President Joseph Biden at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 2021. An Apollo 17 moon rock can be seen on the bottom shelf of the bookcase at far right.

SpaceX's Starship SN9 prototype fires engines again to prep for test flight

Static fires are common preflight checkouts for SpaceX rockets, and SN9 might now have checked enough boxes to launch on a high-altitude test mission in the coming days — perhaps as early as Monday (Jan. 25).

Tiny particles that seed clouds can form from trace gases over open sea

Results from a study of clouds and aerosols conducted in the Azores revealed that new particles can seed the formation of clouds in the marine boundary layer—the atmosphere up to about a kilometer above Earth's surface—even over the open ocean, where ...

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Astronauts prepare for 2 upcoming spacewalks

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(CNN) Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover Jr. are preparing for two upcoming spacewalks that will help to upgrade and maintain the International Space Station. The NASA astronauts will conduct spacewalks on Wednesday, January 27, and Monday, ...

Politico

Moon mission faces new uncertainty in Biden era

Politico

— Propulsion company Phase Four's satellite thrusters will launch to space this morning on a SpaceX mission. — 2020 was a record-setting year for space, but 2021 is shaping up to be ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket poised to launch a record 143 satellites

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CBS News

Liftoff from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, using a first stage making its fifth flight, was targeted for 9:40 a.m. EST, setting up a rare southeasterly climb over the Caribbean to a 326-mile-high orbit around Earth's poles.

The seven rocky planets of TRAPPIST-1 seem to have very similar compositions

This illustration shows three possible interiors of the seven rocky exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system, based on precision measurements of the planet densities. Overall the TRAPPIST-1 worlds have remarkably similar densities, which suggests they may ...

VOLCANO WATCH: A Closer Look at Kīlauea's Newest Lava

Big Island Now

Big Island Now

Right: Another electron image of tephra that contains small (~0.2 inches) olivine crystals with spinels. Greyscale images from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa electron microprobe laboratory, used with permission.

Magnetic waves explain mystery of Sun's outer layer

The Sun's extremely hot outer layer, the corona, has a very different chemical composition from the cooler inner layers, but the reason for this has puzzled scientists for decades. One explanation is that, in the middle layer (the chromosphere), magnetic waves ...

Single atoms as a catalyst

Metals such as gold or platinum are often used as catalysts. In the catalytic converters of vehicles, for example, platinum nanoparticles convert poisonous carbon monoxide into non-toxic CO2. Because platinum and ...