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These 3 astronauts will launch SpaceX's Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station in 2021

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have selected a trio of astronauts to fly to space as part of SpaceX's Crew-3 mission. SpaceX launched its Crew-1 mission — the company's first fully-operational crewed mission to space — to the International ...

Japanese scientists get first peek inside Hayabusa2 asteroid sample-return capsule

A large number of particles are confirmed to be in "sample chamber A" inside the collected capsule (~11:10 JST on 12/15). This is thought to be the sample from the first touchdown on Ryugu. The photo looks brown, but our team says "black"! The sample ...

See the moon's shadow on Earth from the 2020 total solar eclipse in these stunning satellite views

Skywatchers in southern South America were treated to a total solar eclipse on Monday (Dec. 14), and a weather satellite captured stunning views of the event from space. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) GOES-16 satellite ...

Rocket Lab launches Japanese Earth-imaging satellite into orbit from New Zealand

Rocket Lab just launched another small satellite to orbit. A two-stage Electron booster lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand launch site at 5:09 a.m. EST (1009 GMT) today (Dec. 15), carrying the first member of the "Strix" family of synthetic aperture radar ...

The Real Dilophosaurus Would Have Eaten the Jurassic Park Version for Breakfast

Scientific American

Scientific American

A Star is Born. Today we know Dilophosaurus as a bipedal, meat-eating dinosaur more than 20 feet long with two distinctive parallel crests of very thin bone along the top of its head (its name derives from the Greek words for "two-crested reptile").

Team reveals possibilities of new one-atom-thick materials

New 2-D materials have the potential to transform technologies, with applications from solar cells to smartphones and wearable electronics, explains UMBC's Can Ataca, assistant professor of physics. These materials consist of a single layer of atoms bound ...

Hayabusa2 mission confirms return of an asteroid sample, including gas, to Earth

(CNN) The Hayabusa2 mission successfully collected a sample from a near-Earth asteroid and returned it to Earth -- as well as the first gas sample from deep space, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA. The sample was dropped ...

A filter made for astronaut urine could soon be providing drinking water on Earth

Copenhagen, Denmark (CNN Business) Last month marked 20 years of continuous human presence on the International Space Station (ISS). Scientific research to improve life aboard the ISS has led to countless developments in space technology, but it has ...

Think the Perseids are the only shower worth watching? Think again.

Astronomy Magazine

Astronomy Magazine

While shooting the aurora borealis from Knik River near Palmer, Alaska, this photographer captured a brilliant Geminid meteor. He took this 15-second exposure December 14, 2017, at 12:31 a.m. Alaska Time. Matthew Skinner. When the subject of observing ...

Japan space agency finds ample soil, gas from asteroid

This Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, photo released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), shows black grains, right, thought to be from Ryugu are inside the sample container of the re-entry capsule. Japan's space agency said Monday it has confirmed ...