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Space.com

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover will soon race over the surface of the Red Planet more quickly thanks to a new upgrade. The software update aboard the Curiosity rover, completed on April 7, brings around 180 improvements to the robot, the most significant …

Space.com

The rocket was about to enter its startup phase, but did not ignite its 27 first-stage engines, nine each on its three core boosters. It’s unclear what caused the abort.

Space.com

The fresh, face-on image showcases the distant UGC 678 galaxy, which lies 260 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pisces. While astronomers know very little about the galaxy’s formation and makeup, past observations with different …

The New York Times

Like basketball scouts discovering a nimble, super-tall teenager, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope reported recently that they had identified a small, captivating group of baby galaxies near the dawn of time.

Livescience.com

Scientists may have solved a 60-year-old mystery by discovering that quasars — energetic objects that are powered by ravenous supermassive black holes and can outshine trillions of stars combined — form when galaxies collide and merge.

Voice of America

FILE – Gunnar Kaasen and the heroic dogsled team leader Balto in the 1920s. In the Zoonomia Project published April 27, 2023, Balto’s genes were compared to other dogs.

Astronomy Magazine

Venus and Mars continue to dominate the western sky after sunset. Venus is unmissable at magnitude –4.1, hanging just below the star Elnath in Taurus. Elnath marks the tip of one of the Bull’s two horns — to its south is Alheka, the tip of the other horn.

Space Ref

Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have observed infrared signs of the closest tidal disruption event (TDE) to date. A bright flare was detected from the galaxy NGC 7392 in 2015 (top left panel). Observations of the same galaxy were taken in 2010-2011 …

GPB

Even before the reign of the dinosaurs ended in a mass extinction event about 65 million years ago, mammals had already gotten a humble but solid foothold. That’s just one of the findings from a close examination of DNA from 240 different mammalian …

BBC News

A new study of the taxidermied remains of a celebrity Siberian Husky has revealed the special DNA that helped the sled dog gain international fame. In 1925, Balto led a team of sled dogs in a blizzard to deliver lifesaving medication to an Alaska town.