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Congress approves International Space Station extension to 2030

Congress wants the International Space Station to keep going through the end of the decade. Skip advert. Advertisement. The newly passed Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act of 2022 includes a NASA authorization bill that, ...

Asteroids' colors, shapes and brightness levels revealed in new Gaia satellite data

The Milky Way-mapping satellite Gaia has released its third catalog of data, which includes 10 times more information regarding asteroids compared with its second data catalog, indicating a rise in the number of "close encounters" between Gaia-tracked ...

Don't panic about the Chinese space junk crash this weekend

A huge Chinese rocket body is expected to fall to Earth this weekend, but that doesn't mean you should scurry into a bunker. The doomed hunk of space junk is the core stage of the Long March 5B rocket that launched a module to China's Tiangong space ...

Strange Mars dunes reveal where the wind blows on the Red Planet

NASA's veteran Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a stunning image of a Martian dune field that reveals intricate details that might help scientists learn more about weather patterns in the Red Planet's past. The image, which is in false color, ...

James Webb Space Telescope beats its own record with potential most distant galaxies

Now, a new wave of scientific results is smashing past that record, with some astronomers reporting the detection of galaxies up to a redshift of 20. If true, then we are seeing these galaxies as they existed about 200 million years after the Big Bang.

2 meteor showers will light up the night sky this week. Here's how to watch

The first, the Delta Aquariids meteor shower, is predicted to peak around 6 a.m. ET (10 a.m. UTC) Friday, according to EarthSky. Its radiant – the point from which meteor paths appear to come from – rises in midevening, is highest around 2 a.m. local time ...

2 meteor showers will light up the night sky this week. Here's how to watch

The first, the Delta Aquariids meteor shower, is predicted to peak around 6 a.m. ET (10 a.m. UTC) Friday, according to EarthSky. Its radiant -- the point from which meteor paths appear to come from -- rises in midevening, is highest around 2 a.m. local ...

The moon's strange warm pits may be the most pleasant place for astronauts

Now, scientists have measured the temperature inside one of those pits at a temperate 63 degrees Fahrenheit (17 degrees Celsius). The mild conditions are a sign that such pits, which can be up to 490 ...

Seismic Missions Could Reveal the Solar System's Underworlds

Scientific American

Scientific American

Besides their successful landing on the moon, the astronauts of Apollo 11 made another historic "first" in July 1969 when Buzz Aldrin radioed a message back to Earth: "Houston, the passive seismometer has been deployed manually.

Like Bees of the Seas, These Crustaceans Pollinate Seaweed

The New York Times

The New York Times

Move over birds and bees, there is another pollinator on planet Earth, and it lives in the sea. In a study, published Thursday in the journal Science, scientists found that a tiny crustacean, Idotea balthica, played the role of pollinator for a species ...