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Space.com

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Space.com

The NASA astronaut who was hospitalized for a night after the splashdown of SpaceX’s Crew-8 mission has been released and is doing well, according to the agency. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule ” …

Space.com

Like Icarus, comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) met its demise after flying too close the sun.

Space.com

NASA’s efforts in science, exploration and beyond are helping drive economic growth across America, according to an agency study. NASA’s latest economic impact report reveals that its activities contributed $75.6 billion to the U.S. economy in fiscal …

Phys.Org

Curiosity is driving along the western edge of the Gediz Vallis channel, heading for a good vantage point before turning westward and leaving the channel behind to explore the canyons beyond. The contact science for “Chuck Pass” on sol 4341 and …

Popular Mechanics

Stellar-mass black holes typically form after a star goes supernova and collapses. However, the discovery of the first-ever triple black hole system, V404 Cygni, complicates that picture. This black hole is orbited by a very close star (which orbits …

syracuse.com

NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps, and Russia’s Alexander Grebenkin were flown to the hospital for additional medical checks Friday after parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast aboard a SpaceX capsule.

Space.com

After landing in the heavily-cratered Descartes region in the lunar highlands, astronauts John Young, Charles Duke and Ken Mattingly collected roughly 200 pounds (96 kg) of material from the moon’s surface. Chemical analyses …

Coeur d’Alene Press

Our sun has been making news headlines as we’re currently in a strong solar cycle that has generated numerous solar flares and coronal mass ejections. CMEs are a large release of plasma and accompanying magnetic field from the sun’s outer layer of its …

Harvard Crimson

The findings are a striking example of how what is usually regarded as a kind of ecological disaster actually brought a “bio-essential” element — phosphorus — “across the entire globe,” according to Earth and Planetary Sciences professor Nadja Drabon, the …