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James Webb Space Telescope finds 1st 'failed star' candidates beyond the Milky Way

"We are getting closer to unlocking the secrets of how stars and planets formed in the harsh conditions of the early universe." Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here's how it works.

A meteorite 200 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing asteroid helped life on Earth flourish

"Picture yourself standing off the coast of Cape Cod, in a shelf of shallow water. It's a low-energy environment without strong currents. Then, all of a sudden, you have a giant tsunami sweeping by and ripping up the sea floor.".

SpaceX Crew-8 astronaut hospitalized in Pensacola after Dragon splashdown, in 'stable condition'

The astronauts of Crew-8 were taken to a Florida hospital as a precaution, shortly after their successful splashdown on Friday (Oct. 25), NASA said. The SpaceX Crew-8 group of four astronauts was evaluated at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola, ...

SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts taken to medical facility 'out of an abundance of caution,' NASA says

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NASA Astronaut Has 'Medical Issue' After SpaceX Splashdown

The astronauts — Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps of NASA and Alexander Grebenkin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos — launched in March as part of a regular six-month rotation of crew members on the International Space Station.

NASA's solar-sailing spacecraft has a bent boom in Earth orbit (photo)

The ACS3 spacecraft launched April 23 to test key aspects of solar sailing, a next-gen propulsion strategy NASA thinks could greatly advance our exploration of the solar system. Solar sails harness the momentum of photons, ...

DNA analysis of medieval man thrown into a well suggests story in Norse saga really happened

A new scientific examination of 800-year-old human remains in Norway corroborates a royal history claiming that a dead body was thrown there to poison its water. The skeletal remains of the man ...

Accidental discovery of 1st-ever 'black hole triple' system challenges what we know about how singularities form

Researchers spotted a second distant star orbiting a well-known black hole and its stellar companion in a never-before-seen gravitational triad. The system's unique configuration suggests that the black hole was not created as scientists initially ...

A Poem Hitches a Ride on a Rocket, to Infinity and Beyond

On Oct. 14, at six minutes past noon, a group of people stood on a balcony overlooking a launchpad at Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Fla. and watched Europa Clipper, the largest interplanetary craft NASA has ever built, blast off into the cosmos.

The Early Bird Got the Cicada, Then an Evolutionary Air War Started

Fossils reveal that prehistoric cicadas' wings evolved to help them evade hungry predators with feathers and beaks, scientists say. Share full article.