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Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson won't fly on 1st crewed Starliner launch

I'm taking on a new mission, one that keeps my feet planted here firmly on Earth and prioritizes my most important crew – my family. I'll still be working hard with the #Starliner team and the @NASA_Astronauts on our crew.

'Superhabitable' planets could be better for life than Earth

(CNN) Earth is the only planet we know of so far to host life, but it may not be the best place for life when compared with "superhabitable" planets, according to a new study. And as scientists search for other planets outside of our solar system, called ...

Build your own space agency with 'Mars Horizon' and try a free demo now (exclusive video)

It's time to virtually race to space at the head of a space agency — your choice of the European Space Agency, United States, Russia and more. Space.com got an exclusive look at "Mars Horizon," a space agency simulator game, which is available for free on ...

The 2020 Physics Nobel Winners Helped Us Better Understand the Universe's Most Mysterious Phenomenon

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TIME

An awful lot of time elapsed between the day Roger Penrose was walking to work in 1964 and the moment his phone rang while he was in the shower on the morning of Oct. 6, 2020. Back then, his walk was interrupted by "some strange feeling of elation," as ...

New Igloo coolers feature NASA emblems and space shuttle graphics

A popular manufacturer of ice chests has figured out a way to make NASA "cooler." Igloo Products has launched two new models of its Playmate cooler emblazoned with NASA logos, space shuttle imagery and astronaut mission patches. "From landing on the ...

Nobel Prize for chemistry awarded for 'genome scissors'

French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a method of genome editing likened to "molecular scissors" that offer the promise of one day curing genetic diseases.

Astronomers capture 1st direct image of young giant exoplanet

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EarthSky

For the first time, astronomers have obtained an image of the very young gas giant exoplanet Beta Pictoris c, 63 light-years away. Its sibling, Beta Pictoris b, was discovered and photographed in 2008. Sharing is caring! Tweet. Share. Pin. Mail. Share.

Boeing spacecraft commander abruptly pulls out of test flight mission

New York (CNN Business) Former NASA astronaut Chris Ferguson says he no longer plans to command the first-ever crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner, the spacecraft he's spent the last decade helping to build. NASA and Boeing made the ...

Deep learning enables identification and optimization of RNA-based tools for myriad applications

DNA and RNA have been compared to "instruction manuals" containing the information needed for living "machines" to operate. But while electronic machines like computers and robots are designed from the ground up to serve a specific purpose, biological ...

New 3-D model could explain the formation of a hexagon storm on Saturn

With its dazzling system of icy rings, Saturn has been a subject of fascination since ancient times. Even now the sixth planet from the sun holds many mysteries, partly because its distance away makes direct observation difficult and partly because this gas ...