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Engineers continue analyzing several issues that have cropped up during Starliner’s first-ever astronaut flight. Comments (0). nine astronauts float in a mostly-white module of a space station, all smiling. The nine astronauts currently aboard the …

Spaceflight Now

The crew of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft said Wednesday they’re confident the capsule will carry them safely back to Earth at the end of their extended stay aboard the International Space Station, despite helium leaks in the ship’s propulsion system …

CNN

Researchers excavated a 52,000-year-old wooly mammoth skin from permafrost and found that it contained fossils of ancient chromosomes. Love Dalén/Stockholm University. Sign up …

Space.com

The ultimate cosmic “cold case” has lingered for 843 years — and now, space detectives may have solved it at last. In 1181 AD, as the Genpei War raged in Japan, a mystery “guest star” briefly flashed over Asia’s skies. Astronomers had puzzled over the …

CNN

Human remains unearthed at this Neolithic grave at Karleby in Falbygden, Sweden, yielded some of the ancient DNA samples used in the study. Frederik Seersholm. Sign up …

Space.com

Scientists now have more information to study how human-driven climate change is impacting our planet, thanks to brand new imagery arriving from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) satellite.

The New York Times

Hendrik Poinar, an evolutionary geneticist at McMaster University in Canada, was “floored” — the technique had successfully captured the original geometry of long stretches of DNA, a feat never before accomplished with an ancient DNA sample.

Space.com

Astroscale Japan has released yet more eye-watering imagery of space debris in Earth orbit. The Tokyo-based company launched its Active Debris Removal spacecraft (ADRAS-J) atop a Rocket Lab Electron rocket on Feb. 18, 2024. ADRAS-J is designed to test …

Space.com

China is planning its first mission to impact an asteroid in the name of planetary defense. The mission will serve a dual purpose: One craft will impact the asteroid while its partner observes the space rock to learn more about the solar system and its …

Phys.Org

Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were discovered in 1856, people have wondered about these ancient hominins. How are they different from us? How much are they like us? Did our ancestors get along with them? Fight them? Love them?