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'The Virtual Astronaut' launches live space explorer event series for charity

You can now attend a full lineup of live astronaut talks and "meet and greet" opportunities — all without having to leave your home. "The Virtual Astronaut," from uniphi space agency, founders of National Astronaut Day, is a new ticketed live event series ...

Watch SpaceX's SN6 Starship prototype soar on test flight (video)

SpaceX is developing the 165-foot-tall (50 meters) Starship and a giant companion rocket called Super Heavy to get people and payloads to the moon, Mars and other distant destinations. Both vehicles will be completely and rapidly reusable, Musk has said.

Buff space mice could stop astronauts from losing bone and muscle mass

Super-muscular mice may now reveal a way to keep astronauts from losing muscle and bone in the microgravity of space, a new study finds. A major challenge astronauts face during prolonged space missions is the simultaneous loss of bone and muscle, ...

Interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua could actually be a cosmic dust bunny

Ever since it floated through our cosmic neck of the woods, the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua has intrigued and perplexed scientists. Now, a new theory has emerged that the cigar-shaped space rock might actually be a dust bunny. Here on Earth, "dust ...

Where rocks come alive: NASA's OSIRIS-REx observes an asteroid in action

It's 5 o'clock somewhere—and while here on Earth, "happy hour" is commonly associated with winding down and the optional cold beverage, that's when things get going on Bennu, the destination asteroid of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. In a special ...

New Chinese Space Plane Landed At Mysterious Air Base, Evidence Suggests

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A commercial satellite photo may reveal a new Chinese space plane just moments after it landed at a remote site on the western side of the country. The photo, which is too low-resolution to be conclusive, was snapped by the San-Francisco based company ...

Sound waves replace human hands in petri dish experiments

Mechanical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a set of prototypes for manipulating particles and cells in a Petri dish using sound waves. The devices, known in the scientific community as "acoustic tweezers," are the first foray into making these ...

Massive halo finally explains stream of gas swirling around the Milky Way

The Milky Way is not alone in its neighborhood. It has captured smaller galaxies in its orbit, and the two largest are known as the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, visible as twin dusty smears in the Southern Hemisphere. As the Magellanic Clouds began ...

Researchers design system to visualize objects through clouds and fog

A three-dimensional reconstruction of the reflective letter "S," as seen through the 1-inch-thick foam. Credit: Stanford Computational Imaging Lab. Like a comic book come to life, researchers at Stanford University have developed a kind of X-ray vision—only ...

Study indicates sand-sized meteoroids are peppering asteroid Bennu

A new study published this month in JGR Planets posits that the major particle ejections off the near-Earth asteroid Bennu may be the consequence of impacts by small, sand-sized particles called meteoroids onto its surface as the object nears the Sun.