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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 ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is the 1st spacecraft in years to carry fresh US plutonium. It won't be the last.

"Our voyage to discovery requires us to be able to untether ourselves from our own solar system," Abigail Rymer, a space physicist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland and a member of the Outer Planets Assessment Group ...

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 ...

CNN

Curiosity rover searches for salt on Mars

CNN

(CNN) The Curiosity rover is heading for the hills as it continues to explore Mars, and the proverbial gold it's looking for may surprise you: organic salts. No, that's not for your farm-to-table cooking. Organic salt is a key ingredient in the quest for evidence of life ...

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 ...

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.

Turning the tables -- how table corals are regenerating reefs

EurekAlert

EurekAlert

Table corals have been dubbed as "extraordinary ecosystem engineers" - with new research showing these unique corals can regenerate coral reef habitats on the Great Barrier Reef faster than any other coral type. The study highlights the importance of ...