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Putting Women at the Center of Human Evolution

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The author Cat Bohannon was a preteen in Atlanta in the 1980s when she saw the film “2001: A Space Odyssey” for the first time. As she took in its famous opening scene, in which a bunch of apes picks up a bunch of bones and quickly begins using them to …

OSIRIS-Rex’s Dante Lauretta shares final preparations for Sept. 24 asteroid-sample return

Extensive practice sessions have been orchestrated to properly handle the container and its asteroid collectibles once the spacecraft is on terra firma.

Astronaut Frank Rubio breaks US record on way to spending a year in space

Frank Rubio didn’t set out to break a record, but today aboard the International Space Station (ISS), he will do just that. Rubio, a NASA astronaut and member of the space station’s 69th expedition crew, will become the American who has flown the …

Exoplanet’s surface may be covered in oceans, James Webb Space Telescope finds

The so-called Hycean planet K2–18 b is around twice the size of Earth and orbits in the habitable zone of a star located 120 light-years from our solar system. Comments (0). Illustration of a planet and its cool red dwarf star. In the foreground on the.

Astronaut Frank Rubio sets new US record for longest trip in space

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio is seen inside the cupola, the International Space Station’s “window to the world,” as the orbiting lab flew 263 miles above southeastern England on October 1, 2022.

Japan’s SLIM moon lander is carrying this transforming ball robot (it’s not BB-8)

The little rolly-polly probe will hobble and wheel itself around to take pictures of the SLIM lander on the moon. Comments (0). a round metal ball separated in two halves. LEV-2 in the crawling mode, swinging from side to side. (Image credit: JAXA/TOMY …

Electronics on world’s largest radio telescope are more radio-quiet than a smartphone on the moon

The Square Kilometer Array’s site in Australia will rely on 130,000 Christmas-tree like dipole. The Square Kilometer Array Low frequency telescope in Australia will be able to detect the faintest radio signals …

Mysterious moonquake traced to Apollo 17 lunar lander base

When they went to the moon, Apollo astronauts placed seismometers on the surface. Those instruments strikingly revealed that the moon experiences moonquakes, just as the Earth experiences earthquakes. In fact, scientists have since determined there are …

‘Artificial star’ helps test satellite navigation systems (photo)

Star trackers need to tested before they launch to space aboard satellites. … a man in a light blue shirt adjusts dials on a machine that generates a bright … Within an office complex along the Dutch coast lies an artificial star.

China wants help choosing names for its moon lander and lunar crew module

The country is aiming to land a pair of astronauts on the moon before 2030 and is seeking public participation in naming key components for the plan. The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has opened a public call (in Chinese) for names for a crewed moon …