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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches and lands for 8th time, delivering 60 Starlink satellites to orbit

The stainless-steel launcher soared 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) in the sky, before touching back down. The flight went as planned, but the massive vehicle exploded shortly thereafter. A ...

Biden lauds NASA team for giving US 'dose of confidence'

Washington Post

Washington Post

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday congratulated the NASA team responsible for last month's successful landing of an unmanned rover on Mars and for giving the country a "dose of confidence" at a moment when the nation's reputation as a ...

Scientists still stuck on Betelgeuse antics a year after strange dimming episode

An image captured by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile shows Betelgeuse in December 2019, at right, early in what would become the dramatic dimming episode that culminated in February 2020. (Image credit: ESO, M.

Newfound exoplanet could be 'Rosetta Stone' for studies of alien atmospheres

A newly discovered alien world could help astronomers better understand the atmospheres of rocky planets. The newfound exoplanet, Gliese 486 b, circles a dim red dwarf star just 26 light-years from Earth and is about 1.3 times larger and 2.8 times more ...

Large asteroid Apophis will safely fly by Earth on Friday

Our solar system's most infamous asteroid will pass by Earth on Friday (March 5), and with a high-end telescope you can watch it as it safely whizzes by our planet. We're talking about none other than asteroid 99942 Apophis, which will come even closer to ...

See Jupiter and Mercury align in the sky and an asteroid flyby this weekend

CNN

CNN

The best time to view the Jupiter-Mercury conjunction is early Friday morning in the Southern Hemisphere. (CNN) The solar system's largest and smallest ...

'Liftoff': Eric Berger's tale of the wild years of SpaceX's youth

Long before SpaceX's self-landing rockets, Tesla-riding space mannequin or Starship prototype tests for future Mars missions, the California company was already doing daring things in space exploration. Veteran Houston-based space reporter Eric Berger, ...

Cardiff care worker with suspected Covid 'put vulnerable at risk'

BBC News

BBC News

In a ruling published this week, Judge Faridah Eden dismissed her appeal. Social Work Wales had ordered the interim suspension of Ms Gould in August, when she was working for 1st Grade ...

A COSMIC approach to nanoscale science

COSMIC is the brightest X-ray beamline at the ALS, a synchrotron that generates intense light—from infrared to X-rays—and delivers it to dozens of beamlines to carry out a range of simultaneous science experiments.

This frog has lungs that act like noise-canceling headphones, study shows

To succeed in mating, many male frogs sit in one place and call to their potential mates. But this raises an important question familiar to anyone trying to listen to someone talking at a busy cocktail party: how does a female hear and then find a choice male of ...