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Spacewalking astronauts complete a space station battery upgrade years in the making

This spacewalk was conducted by NASA astronaut Victor Glover and NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins. This marked Glover's second spacewalk and Hopkin's fourth spacewalk. "Enjoying the view," Hopkins said about the view of the Earth ...

SpaceX will launch billionaire Jared Isaacman on a private spaceflight this year

Shift4 Payments founder and CEO Jared Isaacman will command a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceflight in late 2021 and is donating three seats to fly with him in support of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. (Image ...

Spacewalking astronauts will install new cameras and wrap up space station power upgrades today. Watch it live!

On Monday (Feb. 1) two NASA astronauts will set out for their second spacewalk together to tackle battery and camera upgrades at the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover, who arrived at the space station on ...

Martian mineral, rare on Earth, found locked in Antarctic ice

Nonetheless, after the Opportunity rover first discovered jarosite on Mars in 2004, the mineral turned up in several Martian locations, leaving scientists to wonder how the mineral became so common, Science reported.

Astronomer Avi Loeb Says Aliens Have Visited, and He's Not Kidding

Scientific American

Scientific American

The prolific Harvard University astrophysicist has produced pioneering and provocative research on black holes, gamma-ray bursts, the early universe and other standard topics of his field. But for more than a decade he has also courted a more contentious ...

Mysterious untreatable fevers once devastated whole families. This doctor discovered what caused them

CNN

CNN

Dr. Daniel Kastner, right, in his lab in 2018 with Dr. Kalpana Manthiram, a clinical fellow at the National Human Genome Research Institute and a colleague of Kastner.

Physicists create tunable superconductivity in twisted graphene 'nanosandwich'

When two sheets of graphene are stacked atop each other at just the right angle, the layered structure morphs into an unconventional superconductor, allowing electric currents to pass through without resistance or wasted energy. This "magic-angle" ...

Physics of snakeskin sheds light on sidewinding

The sidewinder rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes) is found in the deserts of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Credit: Wolfgang Wuster. Most snakes get from A to B by bending their bodies into S-shapes and slithering forward headfirst.

To Get on This SpaceX Flight, You Don't Have to Be Rich, Just Lucky

The New York Times

The New York Times

Jared Isaacman, a 37-year-old billionaire, announced on Monday that he was essentially chartering a rocket and spacecraft from SpaceX, the company started by Elon Musk, for a three- or four-day trip to space.

EarthSky

A robot submarine could explore Titan's deepest sea

EarthSky

A new study of data from NASA's bountiful Cassini mission shows that Titan's largest methane sea, Kraken Mare, is at least 1,000 feet – 300 meters – deep near its center. That's plenty of room for a future robotic submarine to explore. Sharing is caring! Tweet.