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SpaceX rocket launches for record 7th time, nails landing at sea in 100th Falcon 9 mission

The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Space Launch Complex 40 here today (Nov. 24) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 9:13 p.m. EDT (0213 GMT on Nov. 25), marking the company's 23rd launch of the year and the 100th flight overall for the ...

Rocket Lab on road to reusability after successful booster recovery

Rocket Lab is now confident that its reusability dreams can come true. Advertisement. The company recovered the first stage of its two-stage Electron rocket for the first time on Thursday (Nov. 19), fishing the booster out of the Pacific Ocean a few hours after it ...

Arecibo observatory supporters ask White House to help save damaged radio telescope

"This might seem like a disaster, but I think we can transform it into an opportunity to make the Arecibo Observatory a better institution," one of the movement's organizers said. Shares. An image of Wilbert Ruperto-Hernández at the Arecibo Observatory.

Roman-era Egyptian child mummy scanned with laser-like precision

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An Egyptian mummy that was decorated with a woman's portrait contained a surprise — the body of a child who was only 5 years old when she died. Now, scientists have learned more about the mysterious girl and her burial, thanks to high-resolution scans ...

New X-ray technique reveals clues about ancient 1900-year-old mummy

(CNN) Scientists have pioneered a new technique that allows them to investigate the insides of a 1,900-year-old mummy -- without having to open up and tamper with the ancient artifact. Researchers used a new combination of CT (computed tomography) ...

T. rex had a teenage growth spurt — but not all dinos did

(CNN) Researchers have long known that the meat-eating Tyrannosaurus rex had a teenage growth spurt, gaining around 35 to 45 pounds per week, to reach its colossal size. But up until now, it hasn't been clear whether all dinosaurs shared this growth ...

Hearts, airlocks, and asteroids: New research flies on 21st SpaceX cargo mission

Technicians work on the Nanoracks Bishop Airlock inside the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 29, 2020, preparing the facility for its flight to the International Space Station. The first commercially funded ...

Arecibo radio telescope, damaged beyond repair, seen from space

Satellites spotted gashes in the damaged Arecibo Observatory, which is set to be decommissioned by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Advertisement. The 57-year-old radio telescope has sustained two cable failures which has made its massive ...

Gemini North observations enable breakthrough in centuries-old effort to unravel astronomical mystery

An international team of astronomers using Gemini North's GNIRS instrument have discovered that CK Vulpeculae, first seen as a bright new star in 1670, is approximately five times farther away than previously thought. This makes the 1670 explosion of CK ...

New platform for creating and characterizing material blends could significantly accelerate development

Yale University PhD student Kristof Toth (pictured above) with the electrospray deposition tool he designed, built, and validated in collaboration with staff scientist Gregory Doerk of Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN). This CFN tool ...