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The top spaceflight stories of 2022 brought us across the solar system

NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft made an epic flight to the moon, Russia invaded Ukraine and SpaceX set a few records.

Perseverance rover drops 2nd sample tube on Mars, its biggest early Christmas present yet for 2033

On Friday (Dec. 23), NASA announced that Perseverance successfully dropped its second rock sample tube on the Martian surface. And while it's not the first Mars sample Perseverance has dropped for a potential future mission to bring to Earth in 2033, it ...

Rescue Soyuz spacecraft can't reach International Space Station until February

"Our next crew ... was scheduled to fly in the middle of March," said Sergei Krikalev, head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow, during the livestreamed NASA press conference.

See Mercury shine brightly in the sky this Christmas

An apparition is a period in time during which an object in the solar system is visible from Earth. Apparitions of Mercury can happen in either the morning or evening skies with this depending on whether the planet is to the east or west of the sun.

Insights into optical resonances determined by the topology of the Möbius strip

In the current issue of Nature Photonics, Prof. Dr. Oliver G. Schmidt, Dr. Libo Ma and partners present a strategy for observing and manipulating the optical Berry phase in Möbius ring microcavities. In their research paper, they discuss how an optical ...

NASA explores a winter wonderland on Mars

This image acquired on July 22, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows sand dunes moving across the landscape. Winter frost covers the colder, north-facing half of each dune. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona.

EarthSky

InSight falls silent, NASA declares mission end

EarthSky

The InSight mission team has concluded that the solar-powered lander has run out of energy after more than four years on Mars. So NASA has retired InSight. InSight falls silent after over four years on ...

Ten times this year the Webb telescope blew us away with new images of our stunning universe

It is no exaggeration to say the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a new era for modern astronomy. Launched on December 25 last year and fully operational since July, the telescope offers glimpses of the universe that were inaccessible to us ...

Jody Singer, first woman to lead NASA's Huntsville center, on watching Artemis launch: 'Go, baby, go!'

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Jody Singer, director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, is the 14th center director and the first woman director. ... Signed-in readers now can bookmark stories to read later. NEW!

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These Frogs Turn Nearly Invisible While Sleeping

Smithsonian

A transparent frog on the left. On the right, a frog with blood visible · Image of a sleeping frog vs frog under anesthesia Photoacoustic microscopy images showing circulating red blood cells within a glass frog while asleep and under anesthesia. · Glass ...