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Space.com

Orion arrived at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Dec. 30, wrapping up a nine-day trek across the country on the back of a truck. KSC …

Space.com

The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is a range of 180 antennas located in Gakona, Alaska, capable of sending powerful high-frequency radio pulses into the sky and beyond. Built by …

The New York Times

Walter Cunningham, a civilian astronaut whose only mission in space, aboard Apollo 7, revived NASA’s quest to put men on the moon in the wake of a landing-pad fire that killed three astronauts, died on Tuesday in Houston. He was 90.

Space.com

To capture these obscured stars and the hidden details of this spectacular nebula in intricate detail astronomers used the infrared observing power of the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) based at European Southern Observatory’s …

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South Korea’s first moon mission is beaming back images of home from its position in low lunar orbit. Danuri, also known as the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in early August last year and arrived in …

Phys.Org

Nuclear physicists have found a new way to use the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a particle collider at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory—to see the shape and details inside atomic nuclei.

CNN

Walter Cunningham, a retired NASA astronaut and pilot of the first crewed flight in the space agency’s famed Apollo program, died early Tuesday morning at the age of 90, NASA said. Cunningham was one of …

Space.com

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the globular cluster Pismis 26 shows many thousands of stars. countless bright stars scattered across frame and clustered at center (Image credit: NASA, …

EurekAlert

image: Example of (a) pre-expansion images of human kidney imaged at 60× and processed with SOFI compared to the same field of view (b) post-expansion with MAGNIFY taken at 40×. Magenta, DAPI; Orange, anti-alpha-actinin 4 (ACTN4); Blue, vimentin.

Phys.Org

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA’s Apollo program, died Tuesday in Houston. He was 90. NASA confirmed Cunningham’s death in a statement but did not include its cause.