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A helicopter, part of Russia’s recovery steam, lands near the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan Tuesday. Credit: Roscosmos. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft originally slated to bring home two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut …

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Astronomers call the cosmic monster an ultramassive black hole, as opposed to the usual galactic supermassive black holes that weigh anywhere between a few million to a few billion solar masses. Astronomers discovered the …

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SpaceX plans to launch yet another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit and land the returning rocket on a ship at sea today (March 29), and you can watch the action live. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with 56 Starlink satellites is …

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The first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner astronaut taxi has been pushed back several additional months, with liftoff now targeted for July 21 at the earliest. Last month, Boeing and NASA said that Starliner’s astronaut debut, a mission to the …

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Galaxy clusters are not just associations of many galaxies; in the space between those galaxies is a fog of hot gas, radiating at millions of degrees Celsius. Astronomers refer to this gas as the intra-cluster medium (ICM), and it contains more mass than …

CNN

The team, led by Durham University in the United Kingdom, used a technique known as gravitational lensing – whereby a nearby galaxy is used as a giant magnifying glass to bend the light from a more distant object.

Space.com

Scientists have discovered how living cells may respond and adapt to the near weightlessness experienced in space. The discovery could help protect astronauts from the adverse health risks associated with long-term space missions.

Scientific American

Inside the gut of a caterpillar lives a nematode, and inside the nematode lurks a bioluminescent bacterium named Photorhabdus asymbiotica, which makes the caterpillar glow in the dark. But this nesting-doll-like setup has another, more harmful effect: …

Phys.Org

He led an analysis of some 7,000 GRBs—mostly detected by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Russian Konus instrument on NASA’s Wind spacecraft—to establish how frequently events this bright may occur. Their answer: once in every 10,000 years.

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The atmospheres of gas giant planets across the Milky Way galaxy can be very different from those in our solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope has found. Observations of the distant exoplanet HD149026b, also known as Smertrios, revealed that the …