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Japanese probe's asteroid Ryugu encounter hints at space rock's dynamic history

A Japanese spacecraft trekking across the solar system has yet to deliver its precious cargo of space rocks back to Earth, but its data is already giving scientists a preview of a near-Earth asteroid's dynamic history. The spacecraft is Hayabusa2, which arrived ...

NASA starts packing Mars rover Perseverance ahead of July launch

This image of the rocket-powered descent stage sitting on top of NASA's Perseverance rover was taken in a clean room at Kennedy Space Center on April 29, 2020. The integration of the two spacecraft was the first step in stacking the mission's major ...

See the Full Flower Moon, last supermoon of 2020, bloom in these stunning photos

May's full moon, also known as the "Flower Moon," dazzled skywatchers yesterday (May 7) as it lit up the spring night sky. Earlier this week (May 5), the moon reached perigee, or the point in its object where it is closest to Earth, which made it appear even ...

China's new space capsule lands safely to end 1st uncrewed test flight

China's next-generation crew capsule successfully returned to Earth today (May 8) after nearly three days in orbit. The capsule, which has not yet been named, launched on a Long March 5B rocket on May 5 on an uncrewed test flight that represents an ...

Gemini gets lucky and takes a deep dive into Jupiter's clouds

This image showing the entire disk of Jupiter in infrared light was compiled from a mosaic of nine separate pointings observed by the international Gemini Observatory, a program of NSF's NOIRLabon 29 May 2019. From a "lucky imaging" set of 38 exposures ...

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Lunar Flashlight to seek ice on the moon

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Future astronauts on the moon will need to have water, and now NASA has designed a new CubeSat spacecraft to search for ice in lunar craters using laser beams. Sharing is caring! Tweet. Share. Pin. Mail. Share. Vertical beam of light over a gray rocky ...

The cost of space debris: In-space collisions increasingly likely

This GIF is part of a longer animation showing different types of space debris objects and different debris sizes in orbit around Earth. Credit: European Space Agency. With hundreds of satellites launched every year, in-space collisions and the creation of ...

Researchers map tiny twists in magic-angle graphene

Made of a single layer of carbon atoms linked in a hexagonal honeycomb pattern, graphene's structure is simple and seemingly delicate. Since its discovery in 2004, scientists have found that graphene is in fact exceptionally strong. And although graphene is ...

Scientists demonstrate quantum radar prototype

Physicists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) have invented a new radar prototype that uses quantum entanglement as a method of object detection. This successful integration of quantum mechanics into devices could significantly ...

The New York Times

The Dirty Secret About Weeding

The New York Times

Athletes and coaches study game tapes of their opponents, looking for weaknesses and other clues on how to get the upper hand. That's how gardeners should look at weeds, learning as much as they can about the plants and all their moves. The process ...