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The Soyuz MS-25/71S spacecraft carrying commander Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson undocked from the International Space Station early Monday as the two spacecraft were passing 260 miles above eastern Mongolia. Image: NASA.

Space.com

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover will soon encounter rare rubble dumped on the Red Planet by an ancient asteroid impact, kicking off a new phase of science observations as the rover continues its arduous trek to the western edge of Jezero Crater.

Space.com

The pieces are in place for SpaceX’s Crew-9 astronaut mission, which is set to launch this week. NASA’s Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov arrived at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Saturday (Sept. 21). The duo will fly to the …

Space.com

The sunspot AR3835 erupted on Sunday (Sept. 22) during Earth’s equinox when a glancing blow can cause a geomagnetic storm. Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The Washington Post

Autumn brings longer, cooler and clearer nights. Summer’s bright constellations and dense star clouds of the Milky Way give way to the more subtle star patterns that highlight fall evenings. This fall we see the return of Saturn, Jupiter and Venus, …

The New York Times

Scientists gathered these leadership lessons by watching a species commonly known as day octopuses, which roam the ocean floor in mixed-species hunting parties. A study published on Monday in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution suggests …

NPR

Sampaio says that before this study, the consensus among researchers had been that the octopus (specifically, a species called the day octopus) was doing all the work. And the fish—usually different kinds of goatfish—were freeloading.

Physics

Researchers leverage synapse-level maps of the fruit fly brain to examine how neuronal connection probabilities vary with distance, offering insights into how these neuronal networks may optimize function within spatial constraints.

Livescience.com

A new map that details gravitational anomalies on Mars has revealed 20 mysteriously dense blobs, including a dog-shaped mass, buried below the planet’s north pole. And researchers have no clear idea where they came from. When you purchase through links …

Science News

Chong Liu is standing to the right, facing the camera, in a lab. A fundamental understanding of materials science pointed Chong Liu and her team to an excellent material for capturing lithium.