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SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts will answer 'burning questions' with space station science

The upcoming NASA/SpaceX Crew-6 mission is set to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) as soon as Feb. 27. Following launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the team will conduct cutting-edge science aboard the orbiting laboratory during a ...

Replacement Soyuz launched on fight to space station

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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION. A Soyuz-2.1a rocket lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft. Credit: Roscosmos. A Russian Soyuz crew ferry ship blasted off from Kazakhstan Thursday, ...

The largest 2D map of the sky over Earth just got even bigger

An image of the relatively nearby galaxy cluster dubbed Abell 3158 is a tiny part of. The nearby galaxy cluster Abell 3158 imaged as part of the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey.

Use the moon to find Uranus in the night sky tonight

The moon makes its close approach to Uranus on Saturday (Feb. 25) providing an excellent guide for skywatchers to spot the seventh planet from the sun. During the close approach, both the moon and Uranus will be in the constellation of Aries, the ram.

Take Water. Add Sodium Chloride. Chill and Squeeze Into Salty Ices.

Scientists have discovered two new forms of salty ice that probably do not exist naturally on Earth but might be found on icy moons farther out in the solar system. "These structures are nothing like anything that has been described before," said ...

What Sounds Did Dinosaurs Make?

But a research team has drawn clues about sounds the extinct creatures could have made from what might be the first known fossilized larynx of a dinosaur. It comes from an ankylosaur, a group of armored, plant-eaters that were not close relatives of birds.

Absence of the predicted 2022 October outburst of galaxy OJ 287 and its implications

A research group led by Stefanie Komossa (MPIfR Bonn, Germany) presents new results on the galaxy OJ 287, based on the most dense and longest radio-to-high-energy observations to date with telescopes like the Effelsberg telescope and the Swift ...

Scientists find meteorite in Texas from fireball that exploded with the force of 8 tons of TNT

A meteorite found in Texas on Feb. 18, 2023. (Image credit: Robert Ward/American Meteor Society). Scientists have found a ...

Astronomy Magazine

The Sky This Week: A Jupiter/Venus conjunction

Astronomy Magazine

The Leo Triplet (M66 Group) is made up of M65, M66, and NGC 3628. It's a small group of spiral galaxies approximately 30 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. Rogelio Bernal Andreo. Friday, February 24. The asteroid 2 Pallas sits nearly ...

When material goes quantum, electrons slow down and form a crystal

The shifting, scintillating pattern you can see when you stack two slightly misaligned window screens is called moiré. A similar interference effect occurs when scientists stack two-dimensional crystals with mismatched atomic spacings.