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April 25, 2024
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Space.com

Watch live today as NASA astronauts fly to launch site for 1st crewed Boeing Starliner mission to ISS

The first Starliner crew will arrive at their launch area today (April 25), and you can watch the events live here at Space.com. The two NASA astronauts to fly aboard Boeing Starliner, Barry “Butch” Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams, will journey from …

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CBS News

A spacecraft captured images of “spiders” on the surface of Mars. Here’s what they really are.

A unique phenomenon that could be mistaken for spiders scuttling across the planet’s surface has been spotted on Mars, according to the European Space Agency. The ESA said in a news release that one of its Mars Express orbiter captured images of the …

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CNN

Little Dumbbell Nebula may be hiding evidence of stellar cannibalism in new Hubble image

The nebula, 3,400 light-years away in the Perseus constellation, is an expanding shell of gases kicked out by a dying red giant star. The cosmic object is known as a planetary nebula, but it has nothing to do with planets.

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Space.com

Curiosity rover may be ‘burping’ methane out of Mars’ subsurface

Since 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has repeatedly detected methane on Mars, specifically near its landing site inside the 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater. But that Mars methane is behaving erratically. It only appears at night, it fluctuates …

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USA TODAY

Japan’s lunar lander still powers away 3 months later. What to know about SLIM mission

An image the spacecraft managed to beam back to Earth on Tuesday serves as a vital indication that the device remains powered on despite enduring three dark, frigid lunar night cycles. The nation’s space agency, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA …

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NPR

Animals get stressed during eclipses. But not for the reason you think

‘Quite dramatic behavior’. In 2017, Hartstone-Rose, a biology professor at North Carolina State University, organized a study of animal behavior during the total solar eclipse at Riverbanks Zoo & Garden in …

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Phys.Org

Research combines DNA origami and photolithography to move one step closer to molecular computers

To help achieve this, scientists from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences investigated the possibilities of molecular machine self-assembly building upon solutions honed by natural evolution and using synergy with current chip …

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Phys.Org

Scientists discover method to prevent coalescence in immiscible liquids

A team of chemical engineers from Université PSL, CNRS, Harvard University and chemical company Calyxia, has discovered a way to prevent or delay coalescence in some immiscible liquids. In their paper published in the journal Science, …

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Space.com

Boeing Starliner 1st astronaut flight: Live updates

Boeing will launch its first-ever Starliner astronaut mission for NASA as early as May 6, 2024 on a critical test flight to show its commercial space capsule is ready to ferry crews to and from the International Space Station.

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The Conversation US

The Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future, and NASA is calling on private companies for backup

Mars is the nearest and best place to search for life beyond Earth, and if this ambitious NASA mission unraveled, scientists would lose their chance to learn much more about the red planet.

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