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Space.com

The International Space Station Archaeological Project aims to understand how astronauts use and store objects throughout the orbital laboratory to help inform development of future space habitats. Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our …

BBC News

The two Nasa astronauts overstaying on the ISS aren’t the first astronauts to be stuck in space… and they probably won’t be the last. We’ve all been there…stuck for hours on a broken-down train, abandoned in an airport because of a software update or …

CNN

The annual Perseid meteor shower is seen in the night sky on August 14, 2023, in Ratnapura, Sri Lanka. NurPhoto/NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

WIRED

When seawater gets cold, it gets viscous. This fact could explain how single-celled ocean creatures became multicellular when the planet was frozen during “Snowball Earth,” according to experiments.

CBS News

BOSTON – The Perseid meteor shower, one of the best shooting star displays of the year, is set to light up the night sky above Massachusetts tonight. On Sunday night, the Earth will pass through a fairly thick layer of comet debris (fragments of rock …

Space.com

SpaceX intends to launch 23 more of its Starlink broadband satellites on Sunday (Aug. 11), as part of a planned spaceflight doubleheader for the company. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the 23 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from NASA’s …

The New York Times

A researcher at the University of Edinburgh has discovered what he believes is the earliest calendar of its kind at Gobekli Tepe, an archaeological excavation site in what is now southern Turkey that used to be an ancient complex of temple-like …

Spaceflight Now

SpaceX is preparing for the second of three planned launches over the weekend. A Falcon 9 rocket will send 23 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit after launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Liftoff from historic Launch Complex 39A is set for …

Livescience.com

Greenland was almost completely ice-free at some point in the last one million years, fossilized flowers from a core sample taken from the center of the island reveal. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The Guardian

European space scientists will this week attempt one of the most daring operations ever undertaken in interplanetary flight. On Wednesday, they will direct their Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) to make a flyby of Earth and its moon and carry out the …