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Space.com

Election day in the United States is Tuesday, Nov. 4, and even American astronauts living in space are taking the time to fulfill their civic duty and cast their votes. There are four …

Space.com

Monday evening (Nov. 4), the night before Election Day, will bring a lovely celestial display involving the two brightest objects in the nighttime sky. The planet Venus, which has been …

Space.com

SpaceX scrubbed a launch of its Starlink satellites this weekend due to an issue with one of its rockets. The company was scheduled to launch a Falcon 9 rocket containing 23 of its Starlink satellites on Sunday (Nov. 3) from Space Launch Complex 40 …

Space.com

Roughly 8 to 12 meteors per hour might be seen under dark skies during this period. Most meteor showers are at their best after midnight, because their radiants (apparent points of origin) are highest in the sky just before dawn.

USA TODAY

Astronauts have voted in U.S. elections since 1997 when the Texas Legislature passed a bill that allowed NASA astronauts to cast ballots from orbit. Just like any other voter, astronauts can fill out an application to request …

Space.com

SpaceX plans to launch nearly 6,000 pounds (2,700 kilograms) of supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) today (Nov. 4), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center …

Physics

November 4, 2024 • Physics 17, 157. By exploiting polarized-gas collisions, researchers have conducted a sensitive search for exotic spin-dependent interactions, placing new constraints on a dark matter candidate called the axion.

Phys.Org

During the Proterozoic Eon—2.5 billion years to 543 million years ago—the sun was still a young star, much dimmer than today, and Earth required a stronger greenhouse effect to compensate and maintain habitable temperatures for the planet’s earliest …

Newsweek

Photosynthesis is a biochemical process that plants, algae and certain bacteria use to turn light energy from the sun into food. The process—which occurs in special cellular structures called chloroplasts—uses up water and carbon dioxide and produces …

The Hub at Johns Hopkins

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird—which they say could be the largest known member of its kind—providing new information about animal life in …