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⋅ July 31, 2024
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Space.com

No, Boeing Starliner’s NASA astronauts are not stranded in space. Here’s why.
Space.com
Starliner has remained at the ISS. Its mission, known as Crew Flight Test (CFT), was extended beyond the 10-day nominal timeline, then extended again beyond 45 days when the batteries (the main duration-limiting factor) were behaving better than expected.
Space.com

Venus returns to the night sky as an ‘Evening Star,’ and its going to be brilliant
Space.com
As we make the transition from July into August, Venus has finally begun climbing up out of the sunset glow. Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The gasses of Venus wrap …
Space.com

Magnetic fields on the sun could solve longstanding solar heating mystery
Space.com
Scientists have long wondered why the hot soup of charged particles in our sun’s atmosphere gets hotter moving away from the surface of the sun. New research may have the answer, finding the super-hot nature of the sun’s outer atmosphere or “corona” …
Space.com

Hubble spots a stunning spiral galaxy shining in the ‘Little Lion’ (image)
Space.com
Hubble has just dropped more galactic eye candy! From its vantage point in low-Earth orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope recently captured an intricate portrait of the NGC 3430 galaxy, a classic spiral galaxy that resides 100 million light-years from …
CNN

How did Neanderthals disappear? New DNA analysis sheds light on the mystery
CNN
“We developed a framework to determine if human to Neanderthal gene flow occurred, estimate how much modern human sequence are in Neanderthal genomes, and identify the specific places in the Neanderthal genome that are carrying …modern human sequences,” …
Space.com

Can the moon help preserve Earth’s endangered species?
Space.com
Could the moon soon be home to frozen biological samples of Earth’s endangered creatures? New research suggests scientists could use naturally occurring lunar cold spots, some of which haven’t seen sunlight for billions of years, to do just this.
Scientific American

NASA Retires Asteroid-Hunting Telescope
Scientific American
NASA’s NEOWISE telescope has searched for asteroids, brown dwarfs and luminous galaxies. The spacecraft will soon burn up in Earth’s atmosphere. By Meghan Bartels. This artist concept shows the NASA WISE spacecraft, in its orbit around Earth.
Livescience.com

Longstanding physics mystery may soon be solved, thanks to Einstein and quantum computing
Livescience.com
The nature of quantum entanglement remains an outstanding problem in physics. But Albert Einstein’s theories, along with insights from quantum computing, could finally put the mystery to rest. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an …
The New York Times

Underwater Robot Reveals ‘Enigmatic’ Shapes on the Bottom of Antarctic Ice
The New York Times
By sending sound waves into the warming seas around Antarctica, an underwater robot has given scientists a detailed new look at the melting undersides of the continent’s giant ice shelves, which matter hugely for global sea levels.
Livescience.com

Continental collision 2.1 billion years ago may have sparked ‘1st attempt’ at complex life on Earth
Livescience.com
In the new study, published in the August volume of the journal Precambrian Research, scientists documented an ancient period of underwater volcanic activity in the Francevillian Basin in what is now Gabon, Central Africa. The researchers …