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China is gaining ground in space. Should the US be concerned?

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson holds up a photo of China's Zhurong Mars rover during a House. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson holds up a photo snapped by China's Zhurong rover during a webcast news conference ...

All the World Needs Is a Glowing Blue Supermetal From Space

The New York Times

The New York Times

THE NINTH METAL By Benjamin Percy. There are many novels about the end of the world; much rarer are books that don't destroy all life on Earth, just kind of screw around with it a little to see what happens. In Tom Perrotta's "The Leftovers," a sizable chunk ...

SpaceX will launch baby squid and tardigrades to the space station this week

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX is gearing up to launch its 22nd cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) this week, and tucked inside the Dragon cargo capsule will be some interesting organisms. Bobtail squid and tardigrades, also known ...

Spacewalking cosmonauts will decommission an old space station module early Wednesday. Watch it live!

Expedition 65 Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov are expected to start their spacewalk at 1:20 a.m. EDT (0520 GMT). The extravehicular activity, or EVA, should last six and a half hours, although the timing is subject to change depending on how ...

Perseverance rover marks 100th Mars day on the Red Planet

The car-sized Perseverance and its little helicopter buddy Ingenuity landed together inside Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18. That makes today (June 1) the 100th Martian day, or "sol," for the robotic duo. (One sol lasts about 24 hours and 40 minutes, slightly ...

Researchers demonstrate a quantum advantage

Quantum computing and quantum sensing have the potential to be vastly more powerful than their classical counterparts. Not only could a fully realized quantum computer take just seconds to solve equations that would take a classical computer thousands of ...

NASA Releases Stunning Image of Milky Way's Violent Galactic Centre That Hints at Unknown Cosmic Phenomenon

The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel

When seen from the Earth, our galaxy appears like a band of light with droplets of milk scattered all across the night sky—a sight to behold! Formed about 13.51 billion years ago, this large barred-spiral galaxy contains billions of stars and innumerable planets ...

Taking a bite out of tooth evolution: Frogs have lost teeth more than 20 times

These images showcase the dental diversity among amphibians. Salamanders and caecilians, bottom left and right, respectively, not only have teeth on both upper and lower jaws, but on the roof of their mouths as well, shown here in yellow. Credit: Florida ...

UMass Amherst professor helps capture images showing center of Milky Way galaxy

The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe

New photos captured by a researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst showcase the inner workings of the center of the Milky Way and hint at a "previously unknown interstellar mechanism" that could regulate the galaxy's energy flow and evolution.

Light-shrinking material lets ordinary microscope see in super resolution

Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego developed a technology that improves the resolution of an ordinary light microscope so that it can be used to directly observe finer structures and details in living cells. The technology turns a ...