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Space.com

Blue Origin’s New Shepard has now been grounded for almost six months, and it’s unclear when the suborbital space-tourism vehicle will take to the skies again. New Shepard suffered an anomaly during its most recent flight, an uncrewed research mission …

Space.com

NASA engineers have hot-fired the redesigned Artemis moon rocket in preparation for future Space Launch System (SLS) flights that will take humanity back to the moon and beyond. The test of the RS-25 engine was conducted at the Fred Haise Test Stand …

Space.com

Early Friday morning (March 3), SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavour spacecraft carrying the four astronauts of the Crew-6 mission approached the International Space Station (ISS). Crew-6’s dramatic meetup with …

BBC News

“It’s all about tides,” says David Waltham, a professor of geophysics at Royal Holloway, University of London, who studies the relationship between the Moon and the Earth. “The tidal drag on the Earth slows its rotation down and the Moon gains that energy …

CNN

Lab-grown brain organoids — nicknamed “intelligence in a dish” — are pen dot-size cell cultures that contain neurons capable of brainlike functions. Researchers announced Tuesday their plan eventually to use brain organoids …

Smithsonian

Researchers used Barbie dolls to test liquid nitrogen’s effectiveness at removing Moon dust simulants from a replica spacesuit. (Left: before spraying; center: after spraying; right: after spot cleaning) Washington State University.

Livescience.com

Now, by analyzing 20 years of observational data, astrophysicists finally have a theory for what the blob is: a cloud of ejected debris from a head-on collision between two merging stars. They published their findings Feb. 21 in The Astrophysical Journal ( …

NPR

The experiment has boosted scientists’ confidence, he says, that this kind of deflection technique could really work to protect the planet if Earth ever got menaced by a dangerous incoming space rock. The collision altered …

CNET

Turns out Mars may have a sense of fashion, and it’s into a classic pattern: polka dots. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, a longtime resident of the planet, captured a fascinating image of sand dunes with notably round shapes.

Fast Company

The discovery of hidden mathematical patterns—ellipses, parabolas, hyperbolas—in human movement could ripple across the interdisciplinary study of “active matter,” which examines group behavior in populations ranging from clumps of bacteria to herds of …