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Space.com

“If V1 didn’t make it? I’d be very proud; the mission has far exceeded the designers’ expectations.” Comments (0). An artist’s rendering of Voyager 1 spacecraft in interstellar space. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech). It has been several months since …

CNN

On July 20, 1969, the world watched as humankind landed on the moon for the first time. But the perfect touchdown of the Eagle lunar lander by NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong was anything but easy.

CNN

The data was collected from an instrument on the now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy airborne telescope. Called SOFIA, the infrared telescope flew aboard a Boeing 747SP aircraft modified to fly through the stratosphere above 99% of …

Space.com

photo showing part of a silver and gold spacecraft with the sphere of earth and the. Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus moon lander beamed home this selfie on Feb. 16, 2024, a …

Yahoo News

Whether it could save Earth from such a disaster is a matter of timing. When the Chicxulub impactor, a six-mile-wide asteroid, struck Earth 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs …

The Weather Channel

The identification of life in the outer solar system is a significant area of interest for planetary scientists, astronomers and government space agencies like NASA, largely because many icy moons of the giant planets are thought to have large subsurface …

The New York Times

A blue frog with darker blue spots on a branch with light green leaves. Three studies suggest that the presence of prey may encourage toe-tapping in poison dart frogs.

Phys.Org

On a remote tropical island in the Atlantic Ocean, a pair of marooned pirates have been discovered. While they lack eyepatches and cutlasses, the two new species of pirate spider certainly live up to their nautical name, which refers to their habit of …

Popular Mechanics

Solar sails, ultra-thin polymer “sails” that leverage the Sun’s photons as a means of propulsion, have been sent into orbit for more than a decade, but now NASA is prepping it’s own version. On January 30, the solar sail aced its final test and …

Popular Mechanics

Using a technique known as gravitational lensing, the team was able to detect the presence of dark matter even though we can’t see it, further confirming a long-held theory about the superstructure of our universe.