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Approaching the landing zone east of Daytona Beach, two small drogue chutes deployed to stabilize the spacecraft, followed by the ship’s four main parachutes, which lowered the Crew Dragon to a gentle splashdown at 8:30 a.m. Mission duration was 21 days …

Space.com

“Nothing will come close to the depth of Rubin’s survey and the level of characterization we will get for solar system objects.” Comments (0). An illustration of the asteroid belt as a dense donut-shaped ring of yellow points.

CNN

Waves in the North Atlantic Ocean near Gatklettur, Iceland, March 2020. Daniele Orsi/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group/Getty Images. CNN …

The New York Times

Carnegie Mellon University students built Iris, a tiny lunar rover. When the spacecraft carrying it to the moon malfunctioned, they turned their vacation house into mission control.

Space.com

Massive star clusters brimming with giant, luminous blue stars are forming in the unraveled wreckage of interacting galaxies. blurry sparkles of white and yellow cluster to form a blurry galaxy. An example of one of the galaxies with a tidal tail …

Scientific American

An illustration of a magnetic field generated by a supermassive black hole in the early universe. Bursts of star formation sparked by supermassive black holes interacting with giant gas clouds could help explain a mysterious and unexpected …

Space.com

The SpaceX launch of NASA’s newest Earth observation satellite put on a stunning show for photographers. NASA’s PACE mission (short for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at …

Phys.Org

Ordinarily, planets in evolved planetary systems, such as the solar system, follow stable orbits around their central star. However, many indications suggest that some planets might depart from their birthplaces during their early evolution by …

Scientific American

Clara Moskowitz: For Scientific American’s Cosmos, Quickly, I’m Clara Moskowitz. On April 8, we’re in for a treat. A total solar eclipse will be visible across a broad swath of North America, giving us a view of the edges of the sun as the moon passes …

Scientific American

Images of possible planets around white dwarf stars suggest that some gas-giant worlds survive the deaths of their stellar host. By Phil Plait. A white dwarf star exhibits a constant stream of transits by debris and or dust in. Credit:.