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Spaceflight Now

NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars has cooly notched up another significant first by creating the first ever storage depot on another world for Martian soil samples. But if the rover’s mission goes to plan and it continues to operate as scheduled, …

Space.com

New research shows how a simple molecule called ortho-benzene helps form more complex organic molecules deep inside a frigid gas cloud. The team says it plays a small but critical role in creating chemically rich building blocks that will eons later form …

Scientific American

If life exists elsewhere in our solar system, Jupiter’s large icy moons are a pretty good bet on where to find it. Scientists believe vast oceans lurk within, kept liquid by the jostling from Jupiter’s immense gravitational field and protected from the …

EarthSky

However, the researchers say it is potentially habitable, particularly on its dayside facing the star. They also say that, unlike many planets orbiting red dwarfs, it may have retained much of its atmosphere. This …

CNN

Humans can see optical or visible light, but many wavelengths of light remain hidden from our view. The NASA NuSTAR mission, or Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, was able to observe the X-rays released …

Spaceflight Now

Launch of a Russian Soyuz crew capsule to replace a damaged ferry ship docked at the International Space Station is being delayed in the wake of a second incident that resulted in similar damage to a Progress cargo ship, a senior official said Monday.

Smithsonian

February 16, 2023 11:04 a.m.. Artemis 1 launch NASA’s Space Launch System sent the uncrewed Orion spacecraft into orbit around the moon in November 2022.

Scientific American

Ocean water is able to seep beneath ice shelves and lap up against the edge of the glacier at the grounding line, melting the ice from the bottom up. This process can push the glacier backward over the bedrock, causing it to retreat inland, pouring more …

Phys.Org

Materials scientists at Cornell have developed a method for better understanding the complex electrochemical reactions that occur at the interface of water and metal surfaces—an approach that will ultimately lead to better fuel cells and other …

BBC News

A record-breaking dinosaur print found on Yorkshire’s coast may have been left by a predator stopping for a rest 166 million years ago, researchers believe. Scientists said the “amazing” metre-long fossil spotted in Burniston Bay, near Scarborough, …