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Orion capsule leaves lunar orbit, heads for moon flyby and return to Earth

A camera on one of the Orion spacecraft's solar arrays captured this view Nov. 30 of the Orbital Maneuvering System engine, a leftover from the space shuttle program. Earth is visible in the distance more than a quarter-million miles away. Credit: NASA.

Watch live: Orion capsule set to leave lunar orbit today

The orbit departure burn is the fourth of five main engine firings the Orion spacecraft will execute on on NASA's Artemis 1 mission, a test flight of the agency's new deep space capsule and heavy-lift rocket before astronauts strap in for a trip around the ...

Scientists create 'baby' wormhole as sci-fi moves closer to fact

Researchers announced on Wednesday that they forged two miniscule simulated black holes – those extraordinarily dense celestial objects with gravity so powerful that not even light can escape – in a quantum computer and transmitted a message between them ...

Mysterious Flash Is a Supermassive Black Hole Burping the Light of 1000 Trillion Suns

And a pair of papers published Wednesday in the journals Nature and Nature Astronomy conclude that Zwicky picked up the signal of a uniquely extreme "tidal disruption event," or TDE. In other words, the ...

Webb telescope spies clouds beneath the thick haze of Saturn's moon Titan

In November, the space observatory turned its infrared gaze on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. It's the only moon in our solar system that has a dense atmosphere — four times denser than Earth's. Titan's atmosphere ...

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Ants Can Produce Milk for Their Young (and Old)

Scientific American

For the first time, researchers have observed ants secreting a milk-like fluid that nourishes others in the colony. The research, published in Nature on 30 November, reveals that as pupae—an otherwise inactive developmental stage—ants produce a ...

World's First Swimming Dinosaur Discovered in Mongolia

The new dinosaur was found in the Gobi Desert at a place called Hermiin Tsav, famous among paleontologists for preserving multiple dinosaur species and other forms of ancient life. Careful preparation of the dinosaur's bones was required before the strange ...

'Amazing' goose-necked dinosaur was built like a diving bird

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WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The expansive dinosaur group that included big predators such as T. rex also was populated by a number of oddballs, weirdos and outcasts. A newly described dinosaur from Mongolia - the size of a goose and looking a bit ...

NASA Hopes Mars Rock Sample Might Contain Droplet of Ancient Water

A round patch has been abraded out of a beige Martian rock, revealing light veins. This abrasion patch on sandstone found on Mars is about 2 inches (5 centimeters) in diameter and shows white ...

How a 67-Million-Year-Old Fossil Turned the Theory of Bird Evolution Upside-Down

Now, however, new evidence suggests scientists may have had the story backward. Based on an analysis of a prehistoric bird's skull bone, researchers propose that the jointed upper beak existed much earlier than expected, and the fused palate evolved in ...