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Spaceflight Now

SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft on top of a Falcon 9 rocket, awaiting liftoff Tuesday from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: SpaceX. SpaceX’s next resupply mission to the International Space Station is set for liftoff Tuesday night from …

Space.com

NASA’s dramatic Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a rousing success, scientists say. Before the DART spacecraft intentionally crashed onto Dimorphos on Sept. 26, 2022, scientists knew very little about the asteroid’s size, …

Spaceflight Now

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Falcon 9 rocket will launch SpaceX’s 27th resupply mission to the International Space Station.

The Planetary Society

But the moon race is far from over. Both Jupiter and Saturn have more candidate moons awaiting final confirmation. Hunting these tiny worlds and confirming their orbits takes time. There’s more than just bragging rights at stake …

Space.com

NASA and SpaceX held a launch readiness review (LRR) on Monday (March 13) for the company’s CRS-27 resupply flight, which will send a robotic Dragon capsule to the orbiting lab atop a Falcon 9 rocket.

Phys.Org

Newly discovered asteroid 2023 DW has a one in 1,584 chance of hitting Earth on Valentine’s Day 2046, according to the ESA. The chances have plummeted that a newly-discovered asteroid with the …

Phys.Org

Particle-templated instant partition sequencing (PIP-seq) captures cells, barcoded templates, and lysis reagents in uniform oil-coated water droplets with only a few minutes of vortexing. The process uses hydrogel particles constituting a >95% water …

Scientific American

As a child, Makoto Miyata loved tinkering with radios and amplifiers. Now his interest in fiddling with things has only grown—but as a cellular biologist, he does it at a much finer scale. For a paper in Science, Miyata’s team at Osaka Metropolitan …

Phys.Org

Using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), an international team of astronomers has conducted X-ray polarimetric observations of an accreting X-ray pulsar known as Vela X-1. Results of the observational campaign, presented March 3 on the …

MIT News

To avoid a bottleneck of bots, a team of MIT engineers is designing a kit of universal robotic parts that an astronaut could easily mix and match to rapidly configure different robot “species” to fit various missions on the moon.