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SpaceX launches 60 new Starlink internet satellites, nails latest rocket landing at sea

Approximately nine minutes later, the reusable rocket's first stage returned to Earth for its sixth successful landing. SpaceX's drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You" was stationed out in the Atlantic Ocean, standing by for the catch.

First image of a black hole gets a polarizing update that sheds light on magnetic fields

This polarized view "tells us that the emission in the ring is most certainly produced by magnetic fields that are located very close to the event horizon," Monika Moscibrodzka, coordinator of the EHT Polarimetry Working Group and assistant professor at Radboud ...

Glynn Lunney, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13 mission, dies at 84

Washington Post

Washington Post

Glynn S. Lunney, one of NASA's first flight directors, who had a major role in guiding astronauts to the moon and whose cool decision-making under pressure helped save the Apollo 13 mission in 1970 after an onboard explosion, died March 19 at his home in ...

Mars helicopter Ingenuity carries piece of Wright brothers' famous plane

The Wright brothers ushered in "aerial mobility as a dimension for us to be able to travel here on Earth," Bob Balaram, Ingenuity chief engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, said during a news conference Tuesday.

The Most Intimate Portrait Yet of a Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, an international team of radio astronomers that has been staring down the throat of a giant black hole for years, on Wednesday published what it called the most intimate portrait yet of the forces that give rise to ...

Too Much High-Intensity Exercise May Be Bad for Your Health

A new study hints that excessive HIIT may harm your mitochondria, the energy generators found in every cell of your body.

NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter prepares for first flight

Ingenuity remains attached to the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover, which touched down on Mars Feb. 18. On March 21, the rover deployed the guitar case-shaped graphite composite debris shield that protected Ingenuity during landing.

Study compares three top atomic clocks with record accuracy over both fiber and air

"These comparisons are really defining the state of the art for both fiber-based and free-space measurements—they are all close to 10 times more accurate than any clock comparisons using different atoms performed so far," NIST physicist David Hume said.

Long trip to Mars may cause astronauts to misread emotions

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EarthSky

Astronauts on long space missions might experience a cognitive decline that causes them to be slower to read the emotions on other people's faces and and more likely to perceive facial expressions as angry. That's according to a new ...

New method could shine 'a healing light' on the brain for those with movement disorders

Scientists make pivotal discovery of method for wireless modulation of neurons with X-rays that could improve the lives of patients with brain disorders. The X-ray source only requires a machine like that found in a dentist's office. Many people worldwide suffer ...