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China picks up the launch pace with three space missions in four days

Various Chinese sources indicate the country finished three successful orbital launches in four days, with the latest of the group launching from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China on Tuesday (July 6).

SpaceX Dragon cargo ship to return to Earth today after delays from Tropical Storm Elsa

The CRS-22 Dragon cargo ship will undock from the station's Harmony module at 10:35 a.m. EDT (1435 GMT) for an eventual arrival in the Atlantic Ocean. The procedure will be broadcast live on NASA Television and you can watch in the window above, ...

Methane in plume of Saturn's moon Enceladus could be sign of alien life, study suggests

The methane wafting from Enceladus may be a sign that life teems in the Saturn moon's subsurface sea, a new study reports. In 2005, NASA's Cassini Saturn orbiter discovered geysers blasting particles of water ice into space from "tiger stripe" fractures near ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is facing its most serious glitch in a decade and NASA really wants to fix it

"Other than the fact that this particular anomaly means the observatory can't work until we solve it, I don't think solving it is different in kind than other anomalies that NASA deals with," Paul Hertz, NASA's director of astrophysics, told Space.com in an interview.

Virgin Orbit gearing up for autumn launch and a busy 2022

Virgin Orbit is still analyzing the data from "Tubular Bells: Part 1." But the early returns suggest that the flight was completely nominal, keeping the company on track for one more flight this year, likely in the fall, Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart told Space.com.

New clues to why there's so little antimatter in the universe

Phys.Org

Phys.Org

The team has developed a new technique to produce and study short-lived radioactive molecules with neutron numbers they can precisely control. They hand-picked several isotopes of the same molecule, each with one more neutron than the next.

Mars Ingenuity helicopter completes its toughest flight yet

(CNN) Ingenuity, the helicopter that accompanied the Perseverance rover on its Mars mission, has undertaken its ninth and "most nerve-wracking" flight since it first took off on the red planet. Although we don't have the full details about what it accomplished, ...

500-year-old skulls with facial modification unearthed in Gabon

Men and women living in West Central Africa 500 years ago dramatically changed their looks by removing their front teeth, ancient skulls reveal. Archaeologists found the centuries-old altered skulls deep underground in a cave that could be reached only by ...

Cave thought to hold unicorn bones actually home to Neanderthal artwork

A German cave once famous for its "unicorn bones" during medieval times is home to a far-rarer non-mythical treasure: a piece of symbolic artwork created by Neanderthals, a new study finds. The artwork, a chevron design, was carved into the toe bone of the ...

Climate change altered the size of human bodies

A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and the University of Tübingen in Germany gathered measurements of brain and body size for more than 300 fossils from the Homo genus or family, to which modern day humans ...