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Space.com

Venus has a lot to teach us, deadly as it is. The planet Venus is often referred to as “Earth’s twin” since both planetary bodies are approximately the same size and mass. But unlike Earth, which is teeming with all forms of life both large and small, …

Space.com

A powerful solar flare knocked out radio communications on Earth last night in what space weather forecasters fear might be the beginning of a spell of rough space weather in the coming days. The solar flare was the most powerful X-class on the 5-grade …

Space.com

“The golden age of exploration is happening right now, and this new office will help ensure that NASA successfully establishes a long-term lunar presence needed to prepare for humanity’s next giant leap to the Red Planet,” Nelson added.

EarthSky

Meet an aftereffect in our Milky Way galaxy of the brightest gamma-ray burst yet known. GRB 221009A is thought to have been produced by a star becoming a black hole, in a galaxy billions of light-years away. As radiation from the burst traveled through …

CBS News

NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich said there’s nothing wrong with Starliner’s parachute system and “when we look across the vehicle, the Starliner spacecraft is in really good shape. … The Atlas Launch vehicle is ready for flight.”.

Phys.Org

But it took the insight of a veteran astronomer to pull it all together within a year, using observations of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and retired Cassini probe, in addition to the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft and the retired International …

Scientific American

“My Twitter feed was inundated. Every femtosecond, a new picture appeared,” says Scott McIntosh, a solar physicist and deputy director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. “It was pretty special.”.

NPR

The Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of Narcan, a nasal spray used to treat opioid overdoses, for over-the-counter, non-prescription purchase. There are still challenges, like the high cost of this life-saving medication, that may present …

BBC News

Rapidly melting Antarctic ice is causing a dramatic slowdown in deep ocean currents and could have a disastrous effect on the climate, a new report warns. The deep-water flows which drive ocean currents could decline by 40% by 2050, …

CNN

Led by scientists from the University of New South Wales and published Wednesday in the journal Nature, the peer-reviewed study modeled the impact of melting Antarctic ice on deep ocean currents that work to flush nutrients from the sea floor to fish near …