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NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps to make rookie spaceflight aboard Boeing's Starliner

NASA has added a third astronaut to the crew preparing to fly aboard the first operational mission of Boeing's Starliner capsule to the International Space Station: Jeanette Epps. The mission's departure date will depend on the progress of the vehicle's ...

Space station crew spend extra night in Russian segment as air leak investigation continues

Astronauts spent another night in the International Space Station's Russian segment Monday (Aug. 24) while ground controllers continue to search for the source of a small air leak on the orbiting lab. NASA's Chris Cassidy, commander of the station's current ...

Bacteria from Earth can survive in space and could endure the trip to Mars, according to new study

(CNN) A type of bacteria that is highly resistant to radiation and other environmental hazards survived outside of the International Space Station for three years, according to a new study. The Japanese Tanpopo mission involved including pellets of dried ...

Hubble telescope catches stunning view of Comet NEOWISE after its spectacular summer sky show

The Hubble Space Telescope turned its powerful eyes to a celestial visitor to our skies — Comet NEOWISE, which put on a stunning show in the Northern Hemisphere earlier this summer. On Aug. 8, the famed telescope obtained images of the comet's coma, ...

NASA: Jeanette Epps could become first Black woman to join ISS crew

New York (CNN Business) Two years ago, NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps was slated to fly into orbit aboard a Russian spacecraft and become the first Black astronaut to serve as a crew member of the International Space Station. At the last minute, Epps was ...

13 million-year-old bite marks on fossil reveal 'strongest bite force ever measured in the animal kingdom'

13 million-year-old bite marks on fossil reveal 'strongest bite force ever measured in the animal kingdom'. By Ashley Strickland, CNN. Updated 7:15 PM ET, Tue August 25, 2020. A 33,000-year-old human skull shows evidence of being struck with a club.

Pristine space rock offers NASA scientists peek at evolution of life's building blocks

Animation inspired by the bright, burning glow of meteors as they enter Earth's atmosphere. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Declan McKenna. During a 2012 expedition to Antarctica, a team of Japanese and Belgian researchers picked up a ...

NASA missions explore a 'TIE fighter' active galaxy

Not so long ago, astronomers mapped a galaxy far, far away using radio waves and found it has a strikingly familiar shape. In the process, they discovered the object, called TXS 0128+554, experienced two powerful bouts of activity in the last century.

This Day, That Year: Voyager 1 Became First Human-Made Object to Enter Interstellar Space in 2012

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Voyager 1 Poster. (NASA/JPL-Caltech). The vast, dark interstellar space, where no human-made object had ever entered, was first touched by Voyager 1 on this date, eight years ago. It is the first-ever human-made spacecraft to enter the part of the universe ...

Enzyme prisons: Cell signaling with just one molecule

A team at the Max Dellbruck Center has answered a question that has puzzled scientists for some 40 years. In the journal Cell, the group explains how cells are able to switch on completely different signaling pathways using only one signaling molecule: the ...