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Space.com

Neither dust nor wind nor dark of night will disturb new caches of precious Mars samples on the Red Planet. This month, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been dropping lightsaber-shaped caches of material on …

Space.com

The globular star cluster NGC 1850 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in near-infrared (left) and near-ultraviolet (right) to show stars of different ages. (Image credit: …

CNN

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of frost-covered Martian dunes far north of the equator two days after the winter solstice arrived on Mars in July. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University …

Smithsonian

From Omicron’s spread to a revelation made using ancient DNA, these were the biggest moments of the past year. Carlyn Kranking and Joe Spring. December 28, 2022 7:30 a.m.. Collage of top science stories of 2022 Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz.

Space.com

“Through Quesst, NASA plans to demonstrate that the X-59 can fly faster than sound without generating the loud sonic booms supersonic aircraft typically produce. This thunderous sound is the reason the U.S. and other governments …

Space.com

Peking University wants to build the largest optical telescope in Asia and close the gap in astronomy capabilities with the rest of the world. The project aims to create an initial telescope with an aperture of 19.7 feet (6 meters) by 2024; the mirror …

The Seattle Times

It was launched on Christmas one year ago — after two trouble-plagued decades and $10 billion — on a mission to observe the universe in wavelengths no human eye can see. With a primary mirror 21 feet wide, the Webb is seven times as powerful as the Hubble …

Phys.Org

The findings come as communities across the globe reel from a catalogue of extreme weather this year including soaring temperatures and drought across Europe that saw crops wither and forest fires ravage swathes of land. This year had …

Livescience.com

This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually. NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope wowed Earthlings with this remarkable image. (Image credit …

Reuters

WASHINGTON, Dec 28 (Reuters) – NASA is exploring whether SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft can potentially offer an alternative ride home for some crew members of the International Space Station after a Russian capsule sprang a coolant leak while docked …