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Then again, it’s not clear why biology on Earth produces phosphine, either.” Whether it’s in penguin poop or badger guts, we don’t know why bacteria make phosphine, but they do.”.

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“We give a definitive answer that meteorite impact vaporization is the dominant process that creates the lunar atmosphere.” Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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A Canadian robot arm on the International Space Station is days from a big milestone. MDA Space’s Canadarm2 will celebrate its 50th cosmic catch no earlier than Aug. 5, when a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship berths with the International Space …

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The confusion over exactly how to brand a particular full moon as “blue” can be traced back to “Sky & Telescope” magazine, which turned a literary lemon into lemonade by proclaiming that — however unintentional — it changed pop culture and the English …

Los Angeles Times

And the cosmic calendar is stacked this summer, with a distant star’s explosion about to become visible on Earth, multiple meteor showers and more frequent rocket launches. There’s plenty for Californians to see — if you …

Phys.Org

“We give a definitive answer that meteorite impact vaporization is the dominant process that creates the lunar atmosphere,” says the study’s lead author, Nicole Nie, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.

Space.com

We now know who will fly on SpaceX’s Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) next year. On Thursday (Aug. 1), NASA revealed the four astronauts of Crew-10, which will launch toward the ISS no earlier than February 2025.

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The four astronauts that will be on board are commander Zena Cardman, pilot Nick Hague, mission specialist Stephanie Wilson and mission specialist Alexsandr Gorbunov, of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos. The …

Scientific American

There’s more than one way for a star to die. Some go with a whimper, and some go with a very, very big bang. By Phil Plait. Illustration of a white dwarf star siphoning material from a companion star. An illustration of a stellar remnant called a white …

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SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Friday (Aug. 2), continuing the company’s bounceback from a July 11 failure. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 23 Starlink craft lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida …