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A NASA probe will start winging its way toward a bizarre metal asteroid less than a month from now, if all goes according to plan. The agency’s Psyche spacecraft is scheduled to lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in …

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The back of a man with a white shirt sitting at a desk. Lights in. ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen is running the Circadian Light experiment during his Huginn mission. (Image …

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The European Solar Orbiter spacecraft has peered into previously unexplored parts of the sun’s atmosphere thanks to scientists who applied a simple hack to its main camera. Solar Orbiter, launched in 2020, has delivered an impressive string of new …

The Planetary Society

The samples, which weigh about 250 grams (a half-pound), may help us understand what conditions were like in the Solar System when life arose on Earth. Ancient asteroids like Bennu may have carried water and organic materials to Earth long ago.

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Astronomers have discovered an immense bubble of galaxies that could be a fossilized remnant leftover from the Big Bang. The cosmic bubble is located around 820 million light-years from Earth and is a staggering …

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Astronomers are racing to explain peculiar orbits of faraway objects at the edge of our solar system. Comments (0). a red-hued planet is shaded into a crescent against a purple and black backdrop. Artist’s conception of the dwarf planet Sedna in the …

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ESA’s wind-measuring Aeolus satellite was spotted before its flaming demise over Antarctica. … a fiery structure against a black sky. Final images of Aeolus during its brief phase as space debris.

CNN

Archaeologist Dr. Emma Pomeroy of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom excavates the skeletal remains of an adult Neanderthal who researchers called Shanidar Z. The cave discovery was described in a February 2020 study.

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The discovery of a magnetic field in a galaxy that existed less than 2.5 billion years after the Big Bang is evidence for the integral role such fields play in the evolution of galaxies. Comments (0). Located centrally on a dark background is an …

USA TODAY

“This is not normal for us, but due to two consecutive years of high temps and drought conditions, it has given us the opportunity to uncover new tracks,” said Paul Baker, retail manager at Friends of Dinosaur Valley State Park. “Once we receive a decent …