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The Planetary Society

The evidence comes from data collected by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft, which orbited Venus from 1990 to 1994. In two grainy 1991 radar images captured eight months apart, a volcanic vent morphs from a circular depression into a …

The New York Times

In space, moon suits are the height of fashion, and NASA officials on Wednesday lavished praise on what astronauts will be wearing when they step on the moon in the coming years. “We’re developing a spacesuit for a new generation,” Robert D. Cabana, …

The New York Times

Unlike the spacesuit redesigns of private companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, the Artemis III spacesuit is not meant to be worn solely within a spacecraft but on the surface of the moon too, …

Space.com

An explosion on the the sun spewed ‘dark plasma’ into space that resulted in a moderate G2-class geomagnetic storm on Wednesday (March 15). The eruption was detected on March 11 by coronagraphs at NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and on the …

Space.com

A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule carrying more than 3 tons of supplies will arrive at the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday morning (March 16), and you can watch the off-Earth rendezvous live. The robotic Dragon, which launched from Florida’s …

Scientific American

The new announcement marks the first time that researchers have managed to turn a stem cell from an adult male mouse into an egg. It’s a new variation on what scientists call in vitro gametogenesis. During in vitro …

Phys.Org

The ecologically and economically important dipterocarp trees that get extensively logged in Malaysian Borneo. Credit: Tristram Hales. A pioneering global study has found deforestation and forests lost or damaged due to human and environmental change, …

Space.com

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just given us some gorgeous views of a giant star’s dying days. On Tuesday (March 14), NASA released JWST images of WR 124, …

Phys.Org

An international team of planetary scientists has characterized some of the features of an exoplanet named HD-207496-b, located approximately 138 light years from Earth. In their paper accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, …

Phys.Org

The method combines data from spatial transcriptions and a reference single-cell RNA atlas to create modeling outputs. The resulting models can be used to view cellular substructures, identify colocalization patterns and analyze differential expression …