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Space.com

Celebrating the momentous occasion of America’s return to crewed spaceflight two years ago, a new documentary feature from Emmy and Academy Award winning filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (“Meru,” “Free Solo”) is about to launch onto Netflix (opens …

Space.com

The four astronauts of SpaceX’s Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) will have to cool their heels here on Earth for at least one extra day. The launch of Crew-4 had been scheduled for April 19. But it’ll now lift off no earlier than …

Space.com

In just one night of observing, scientists detected a new record-breaker — the most distant megamaser known to date. A megamaser is a super-powerful laser made of microwave light (hence maser). Megamasers come in a few different flavors, …

Scientific American

In particle physics, data long outlives the detectors that generate it. A decade ago the 4,100-metric-ton Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) reached the end of its life and was shut down, stripped of its parts for use in other experiments.

Space.com

The galaxy candidate HD1. (Image credit: Harikane et al.) Researchers have spotted what might be the farthest astronomical object ever found — a galaxy candidate named …

BBC News

Scientists have presented a stunningly preserved leg of a dinosaur. The limb, complete with skin, is just one of a series of remarkable finds emerging from the Tanis fossil site in the US State of North Dakota. But it’s not just their exquisite …

The New York Times

Is the object a galaxy of primordial stars or a black hole knocking on the door of time? The Webb space telescope may help answer that question.

Phys.Org

Coalescing supermassive black holes in the centers of merging galaxies fill the universe with low-frequency gravitational waves. Astronomers have been searching for these waves by using large radio telescopes to look for the subtle effect these …

IndieWire

A dull and airless Netflix documentary by an Oscar-winning duo whose brilliant films about the highs and lows of human exploration (“Meru,” “Free Solo,” and “The Rescue”) have rattled with the heart-in-your-throat intensity of riding a rickety wooden …

Phys.Org

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover spent most of March climbing the “Greenheugh Pediment”—a gentle slope capped by rubbly sandstone. The rover briefly summited this feature’s north face two years ago; now on the pediment’s southern side, Curiosity has …