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CNN

The Liang Bua cave excavation site, where the fossils of Homo floresiensis were discovered on the island of Flores in Indonesia. Achmad Ibrahim/AP. To harden the brittle exposed bone …

Space.com

Crew-6 is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station on Sunday (Sept. 3) around 7:05 a.m. ET.

Spaceflight Now

A Falcon 9 rocket launched 13 demonstration satellites for a planned U.S. military mega-constellation from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Saturday. It was the 61st orbital launch of the year for SpaceX. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Space …

The Planetary Society

The Moon was forged when Earth collided with a Mars-size object named Theia. The two colliding planets threw huge chunks of super-heated rock into space, which came together gravitationally to form the Moon.

Reuters

BENGALURU, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Following up on the success of India’s moon landing with the Chandrayaan-3, the country’s space agency was set to launch a rocket on Saturday to study the sun. India’s first space-based solar probe aims to study solar …

Space.com

India’s Gaganyaan mission envisions sending three astronauts to low Earth orbit, requiring the development of a spacecraft that can get crew into space and safely back to the ground.

BBC News

And L1 stands for Lagrange point 1 – the exact place between Sun and Earth where the Indian spacecraft will be placed. According to the European Space Agency, a Lagrange point …

The Washington Post

India launched its first space mission to study the sun on Saturday, nearly a week after becoming the first country to land an unmanned robotic spacecraft near the moon’s south pole. The Aditya-L1 spacecraft, the latest mission in India’s ambitious …

Nature.com

Microbes can be an important source of phenotypic plasticity in insects. Insect physiology, behaviour, and ecology are influenced by individual variation in the microbial communities held within the insect gut, reproductive organs, bacteriome, …

Nature.com

Mixotrophic and heterotrophic protists hold a key position in aquatic microbial food webs. Whereas they can account for the bulk of bacterivory in pelagic systems, the potential structuring effect of these consumers on bacterial communities is far from …