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Space.com

It will be visible across parts of Antarctica, the southern tip of South America, and the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

Space.com

A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying the four crewmembers of the Ax-1 mission is scheduled to leave the orbiting lab today (April 23) after a two-week stay. The hatches between the Dragon and the ISS will close at about 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030 GMT), and the SpaceX …

Space.com

The world’s first all-private crew to the International Space Station must wait at least another day to depart the orbiting lab after bad weather prevented a planned undocking Saturday (April 23). NASA …

Spaceflight Now

With persistent high winds off the Florida coast, SpaceX on Saturday again waved off the undocking and return to Earth of a Dragon crew capsule from the International Space Station with four private astronauts. The decision delays the Axiom crew’s …

CNET

There are 17 known fundamental particles — six quarks, six leptons and five bosons (not counting the theoretical Higgs boson) — and their corresponding anti-particles. They are called “fundamental” or “elementary” particles because they have no smaller …

CNN

The mission, called AX-1, was brokered by the Houston, Texas-based startup Axiom Space, which books rocket rides, provides all the necessary training, and coordinates flights to the ISS for anyone who can afford it.

SpaceNews

The tracking radar, called Space Fence, started operating at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands in 2020. But up until now the data collected by the radar had not been integrated into the Unified Data Library.

EurekAlert

Insights on centuries-old folk instrument is underpinned by a mathematical principle that may pave the way for high-quality resonators for sensing, electronics and more. Peer-Reviewed Publication. Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and …

The Weather Channel

Seismic wave data from the events could help researchers learn more about the interior layers of Mars, particularly its core-mantle boundary, researchers from InSight’s Marsquake Service (MQS) reported in The Seismic Record.

AZCentral.com

The prototype carbon capture mechanism is partially extended for a demonstration during ASU’s celebration of Earth. The latest report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that simply reducing greenhouse gas emissions might not …