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SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites on record-setting used rocket, nails landing

It was the fifth launch for this Falcon 9 first stage, which last flew just 27 days ago — the quickest turnaround between missions for any SpaceX booster. Today's launch was also the first of two nearly back ...

US still committed to landing Artemis astronauts on the moon, White House says

But whether NASA's 2024 moon landing goal still holds remains to be seen. The ...

You can watch SpaceX launch its 2nd Starlink satellite mission in 2 days Friday. Here's how.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 60 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Nov. 24, 2020. (Image: © SpaceX). SpaceX will launch another ...

How Mars 2020 will help bring part of the red planet back to Earth

Once the mission arrives safely, it will deploy two vehicles: the Ingenuity helicopter drone and the Perseverance rover. Ingenuity will test our ability to use aircraft on a planet that has an atmosphere less than 1 percent as dense as Earth's.

Orbiters could find ice on Mars for future human missions

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CNN

(CNN) Mars is too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface, but a wealth of ice may exist just beneath the surface in certain regions. Future human missions to Mars could use this ice as a resource and study it to learn about the planet's past. The Italian Space ...

How Mars became the prize for the new space race – and why China is hellbent on winning it

Nothing demonstrates this better than the figures. Out of 49 missions up to December 2020, only about 20 have been successful. Not all these failures were attempts by newbies or early endeavors. In 2016, The European Space Agency's Schiaparelli Mars ...

Under the sea, humans have changed ocean sounds

In this Friday, July 26, 2019 file photo, a ship crosses the Gulf of Suez towards the Red Sea as holiday-makers ride a jet ski at al Sokhna beach in Suez, 127 kilometers (79 miles) east of Cairo, Egypt. Not only are humans changing the surface and temperature ...

It's not just the pandemic. The moon may be messing with your sleep, too, UW researchers find.

Seattle Times

Seattle Times

Ahead of the full moon, it took people, on average, 30 minutes longer to fall asleep and they slept for 50 minutes less, said Leandro Casiraghi, the study's lead author and a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington.

NASA appoints climate advisor to prioritize Earth science in Biden administration

Gavin Schmidt will serve as acting senior climate advisor at NASA. (Image: © NASA). Tackling the climate crisis is one of President Joe Biden's top priorities, and NASA has ...

Can a fin become a limb? Single mutations cause zebrafish fins to transform into complex limb-like structures

Researchers, led by M. Brent Hawkins, a recent doctoral recipient in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, performed forward genetic screens in zebrafish looking for mutations that affect the fin skeleton. Unlike tetrapod limbs ...