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CBS News

SpaceX readied a Falcon 9 rocket for launch early Wednesday to send a commercially built robotic lander to the moon, the first targeting touchdown near the lunar south pole where NASA’s Artemis astronauts plan to walk about in a few years.

Space.com

As space agencies plan for future crewed missions to Mars, with NASA hoping to have humans step foot on the Red Planet as soon as the 2030s, scientists warn that astronauts themselves could be carrying a threat to these missions.

Space.com

If all goes well, the Nova-C lander (Intuitive Machines has named it Odysseus) is expected to land on the moon on Feb. 22 to deliver experiments for NASA and commercial customers to the lunar surface under a $118 million contract with NASA’s Commercial …

Space.com

The delay from Feb. 22 will make room for the expected launch of Intuitive Machines’ moon lander from the same launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The window for that moon mission, known as IM-1, opens Wednesday (Feb. 14).

Space.com

Early Wednesday morning (Feb. 14), Intuitive Machines will kick off its quest to become the first private company to make a soft landing on the lunar surface. The Houston-based company is launching its Nova-C lander, named “Odysseus,” to the moon atop …

CNN

A surgical robot, known as spaceMIRA, completed its first surgery demo in zero gravity. Courtesy Virtual Incision. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter …

The Washington Post

NASA’s Artemis program, the quest to eventually return astronauts to the surface of the moon, is off to a fitful start. In January, the first attempt to land a robotic spacecraft on the lunar surface in more than 50 years was thwarted by a fuel leak …

ABC News

Terrestrial animals will not provide the bears with the nutrients they need. ByJulia Jacobo. February 13, 2024, 8:01 AM. NaN:NaN. Climate change explained by Ginger Zee. ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee discusses the global impact of climate …

Reuters

“Our understanding of dinosaurs has changed significantly since the 19th century,” said paleontologist Emma Nicholls of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, home to the Megalosaurus fossils Buckland studied. “Buckland and …

Space.com

An extreme ice age 700 million years ago caused our planet to become a ball of ice.