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Space.com

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Space.com

“Picture yourself standing off the coast of Cape Cod, in a shelf of shallow water. It’s a low-energy environment without strong currents. Then, all of a sudden, you have a giant tsunami sweeping by and ripping up the sea floor.”.

Spaceflight Now

Three U.S. astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut are closing in on their return to Earth after spending more than seven months in space. NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin …

Space.com

The astronauts of Crew-8 were taken to a Florida hospital as a precaution, shortly after their successful splashdown on Friday (Oct. 25), NASA said. The SpaceX Crew-8 group of four astronauts was evaluated at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola, …

CNN

From left: Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps. Joel Kowsky/NASA/Getty Images. Sign up for …

The New York Times

The astronauts — Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps of NASA and Alexander Grebenkin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos — launched in March as part of a regular six-month rotation of crew members on the International Space Station.

Space.com

The ACS3 spacecraft launched April 23 to test key aspects of solar sailing, a next-gen propulsion strategy NASA thinks could greatly advance our exploration of the solar system. Solar sails harness the momentum of photons, …

Livescience.com

A new scientific examination of 800-year-old human remains in Norway corroborates a royal history claiming that a dead body was thrown there to poison its water. The skeletal remains of the man …

Livescience.com

Researchers spotted a second distant star orbiting a well-known black hole and its stellar companion in a never-before-seen gravitational triad. The system’s unique configuration suggests that the black hole was not created as scientists initially …

The New York Times

On Oct. 14, at six minutes past noon, a group of people stood on a balcony overlooking a launchpad at Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Fla. and watched Europa Clipper, the largest interplanetary craft NASA has ever built, blast off into the cosmos.