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CNN

As the moon’s core cools and shrinks, its surface develops creases that create “moonquakes” as well as landslides, a new study says. Here is a composite image of the moon with data from 1994.

Space.com

The gruesome discoveries more than double the number of tidal disruption events found in the local universe. Comments (0). An artist’s impression of a star (foreground) being disrupted as it passes close to. An illustration shows a star being ripped …

Space.com

NASA will hold a free livestream at 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT) today to honor the achievements and legacy of Ingenuity, which ended its mission last week after suffering rotor damage during its 72nd flight on Jan. 18.

CBS News

“If you have relatives somewhere in the path of totality, call them now,” said Mike Shanahan, planetarium director at Liberty Science Center. At totality, daytime turns to dawn in an instant, …

Space.com

That chase will come to an end around 4:15 a.m. EST (0915 GMT) on Thursday, when NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli captures Cygnus using the International Space Station’s (ISS) Canadarm2 robotic arm. You can watch the action live here at Space.com, courtesy …

USA TODAY

USA TODAY had a chance to witness the phenomenon firsthand on a trip to Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories, organized for journalists by Expedia, and the wispy green light in the sky did not disappoint. But …

Space.com

the round edge of earth is seen blue with a swath of clouds, beneath a. This high-exposure photo from the International Space Station shows Earth’s atmospheric glow and a starry sky …

The Washington Post

The disk-shaped container, roughly the size of a small tire rim, was the culmination of an ambitious mission to collect samples from a distant asteroid, Bennu, and return them to Earth. In late September, a NASA spacecraft delivered the container back to …

The New York Times

So the scientists coined the term “beakiation,” a play on the word brachiation, the term for the monkey-bar motions of primates. The researchers compared the beak-swinging of the parrots with the brachiation of gibbons — whose swings ricochet with momentum …

Scientific American

Now research published this week in Nature Communications might have finally solved the mystery: artificial light confuses insects’ ability to orient themselves to the horizon, scrambling their sense of what is up and down and causing them to confusedly …