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NASA's InSight Mars lander awakens from 'safe mode' after Red Planet dust storm

An artist's depiction of NASA's InSight lander at work on Mars, with the dome of. (Image credit: NASA). A NASA spacecraft has safely ...

Historic Mars weather delay pushes Ingenuity helicopter's next flight to Sunday

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has notched yet another milestone — the first weather-related flight delay on another planet. Ingenuity was scheduled to make its 19th Red Planet hop on Jan. 5. On New Year's Day, however, a strong dust storm kicked up ...

Spaceflight makes the body kill red blood cells and it doesn't get better after landing

Being in space causes the human body to destroy about 50% more red blood cells, leading to a potentially dangerous condition known as anemia. The effects persist even after astronauts return to Earth, according to a new study.

Spacewalking cosmonauts activate space station's newest Russian module

Spaceflight Now

Spaceflight Now

Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov completed a 7-hour, 11-minute spacewalk Wednesday outside the International Space Station, preparing Russia's new Prichal module for the arrival of the next Soyuz crew spacecraft in March.

A wearable COVID tracker? This clip-on accessory can detect the virus

USA TODAY

USA TODAY

You may soon be able to get a wearable device that would help alert you to potential COVID-19 exposure. Today, we usually only learn about exposure to COVID when we find out someone we've been in contact has tested positive or symptoms of our own arise ...

'Space archaeology' research on the ISS will help design better space habitats

A unique archaeological study of crew culture within the International Space Station (ISS) will focus on the orbiting habitat as a "microsociety in a miniworld." This inside look at the ISS, called the International Space Station Archaeological Project ...

Al Gore: Emissions reductions hinge on AI measurements from space

The Hill

The Hill

Climate TRACE tracks real-time atmospheric carbon emissions from existing satellites through AI and machine learning to obtain "a highly accurate and precise quantification of every significant emitter of greenhouse gas pollution.".

Researchers develop novel microscopic picoshell particles

Production of high-energy fats by microalgae may provide a sustainable, renewable energy source that can help tackle climate change. However, microalgae engineered to produce lipids rapidly usually grow slowly themselves, making it difficult to ...

Satellites show 'mega-iceberg' released 152 billion tons of fresh water into ocean as it scraped past South Georgia

In July 2017, the A68A iceberg snapped off the Larsen-C Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula and began its epic 3.5-year, 4,000-km journey across the Southern Ocean. At 5719 square kilometers in extent—one-quarter the size of Wales—it was the biggest ...

Capturing all that glitters in galaxies with NASA's Webb Telescope

Spirals on cosmic scales—as seen in galaxies—are even more arresting, not only for their beauty, but also for the overwhelming amount of information they contain. How do stars and star clusters form? Until recently, a complete answer used to lie out of ...