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Space.com

Crew-8 will launch NASA astronauts NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barrett, Jeannette Epps and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin on a six-month mission to the ISS. The space quartet will relieve their colleagues of SpaceX’s Crew-7 mission.

The Washington Post

Like making the ingredients of a cake, researchers have successfully created a compound critical for metabolism in all living cells, which is essential for energy production and regulation. The pathway, which has evaded scientists for decades …

Space.com

One of the leading suspects for dark matter are called “axions,” light-mass particles first theorized in 1977. New research suggests axions could be found if scientists look for regions in which the particles may …

The Washington Post

From the depths of the ocean to the vastness of space, Martin MacInnes’s novel, “In Ascension,” strives for a sense of cosmic awe by grappling with the origins of life and the mysteries of the universe while grounding readers in the grim reality of …

Space.com

The Orion Nebula is a massive complex of gas and dust that forms the building blocks of new stars. In fact, it’s the nearest star-forming region to Earth. However, this stellar precursor material can also absorb light, acting as a shield for recently born, …

CNN

Aerial surveys conducted last weekend by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and Australian Institute of Marine Science found bleaching was “extensive and fairly uniform across all surveyed reefs.” The teams …

Space.com

Astronomers have discovered that a planet-birthing disk of gas and dust that surrounds an infant star is drenched with enough water to fill Earth’s oceans three times over. Water, a key element needed …

Space.com

China’s human spaceflight agency has given names to spacecraft being developed to put astronauts on the moon. Mengzhou is the name for the spacecraft that will take astronauts beyond low Earth orbit, while the lunar lander has been named Lanyue.

CBS News

Taking advantage of a weather delay for NASA’s next space station flight, SpaceX fired off another 23 Starlink internet satellites Thursday in a hazy leap day launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. It was the California rocket builder’s …

The New York Times

The commercial spacecraft’s builder, Intuitive Machines, released new images from the moon’s surface as the company described plans to try to wake it up in two to three weeks.