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

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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 …

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The wintery scene of ice over the southern hemisphere of Mars as seen by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft. (Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO). A newly released image of Mars shows an icy scene, with ribbons of red …

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“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.

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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.

Phys.Org

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 …

Space.com

Astra suffers second failure; India’s new vehicle fails first flight; New Shepard suffers anomaly; Alpha rocket’s satellites fall to Earth; Skyrora fails on 1st launch attempt; Japan’s Epsilon rocket fails; North Korea’s ballistic missile fails; Long March …

CNN

Pictured is a sample of the El Ali meteorite found in Somalia. The specimen contains two minerals that don’t naturally form on Earth, scientists said. Nick Gessler/Duke University.

SpaceCoastDaily.com

The first humans to orbit the Moon, and at the close of a tumultuous year, the crew took turns reading from the opening lines of the biblical book of Genesis. Commander Frank Borman closed the broadcast …

Lake County News

A space telescope designed to search for the hardest-to-find asteroids and comets that stray into Earth’s orbital neighborhood, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor, or NEO Surveyor, recently passed a rigorous technical and programmatic review.