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⋅ August 7, 2024
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Spaceflight Now

NASA ‘getting more serious’ about backup plan to bring Starliner astronauts home if needed
Spaceflight Now
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft that launched astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s forward port. Image: NASA. As NASA debates the safety of Boeing’s …
The Planetary Society

Eureka? Scientists’ first hints of life on other planets may not be so obvious
The Planetary Society
Rojas, who is a mission science operations specialist at NASA Goddard and former instrument operations engineer for the Perseverance rover (fondly known as “Percy”), knew it was something special right away. “These types of features are often associated …
Space.com

NASA moon probe plays laser tag with Japanese lunar lander
Space.com
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been playing a very interesting game of hide-and-seek with Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), which touched down on the lunar surface on Jan. 19.
Space.com

Over 300 hidden planet-devouring stars within the Milky Way found by AI
Space.com
Billions of years from now, any alien civilization searching for life in the vicinity of the solar system would find Earth not as our beloved pale blue dot in its orbit but as bits and pieces of metal polluting our sun. That’s because stars with masses …
Space.com

Stellar oddball: Nearby star rotates unlike any other
Space.com
The surprising star is V889 Herculis, located 115 light-years away in the constellation of Hercules. This otherwise sun-like young star spins in a way that astronomers have never seen before and could challenge our model of stellar rotation, which …
CNN

Boeing Starliner astronauts have now been in space more than 60 days with no end in sight
CNN
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — two veteran NASA astronauts piloting the first crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft — have now been in space for 63 days, roughly seven weeks longer than initially expected. There …
The New York Times

Heat Raises Fears of ‘Demise’ for Great Barrier Reef Within a Generation
The New York Times
This generation will probably see the demise of the Great Barrier Reef unless humanity acts with far more urgency to rein in climate change, according to scientists in Australia who released new research on heat in the surrounding ocean.
USA TODAY

Carvings at site in Turkey could depict comet strike that ushered in civilization: Study
USA TODAY
A Turkish site thought to predate the Great Pyramid of Giza by seven millennia is host to mysterious carvings that archeologists believe could depict a devastating ancient comet strike. The carvings recently deciphered at the Göbekli Tepe …
Harvard Gazette

How did life begin on Earth? A lightning strike of an idea.
Harvard Gazette
The atmosphere was composed predominantly of inert gases like nitrogen and carbon dioxide, meaning they did not easily engage in chemical reactions necessary to form the complex organic molecules that are the building blocks of life. Scientists have …
Phys.Org

Fungi adapt cell walls to evade antifungal drugs
Phys.Org
Aspergillus fumigatus, the most frequent cause of invasive fungal infection in people with suppressed immune systems, is responsible for approximately 100,000 deaths annually around the world. Poor treatment outcomes result from therapeutic failures and …