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Space.com

Images produced by NASA’s STEREO spacecraft seem to show the comet is holding it together after its brush with the sun on Sunday. Comments (0). a comet appears as a white streak on a blue background. An image of the solar corona seen taken by NASA’s …

CNN

When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft swings by Earth on Sunday, it is expected to deliver a rare cosmic gift: a pristine sample collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. If all goes according to …

Space.com

70% of the sample will be preserved ‘for study by scientists not yet born, using technologies not yet invented.’ Comments (0). photo of a pyramid-shaped asteroid in deep space. This mosaic of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu was created using observations …

Space.com

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its most fundamental properties. Comments (0).

Space.com

This massive particle could serve as the connection between dark matter and the everyday matter that comprises stars, planets and us. Comments (0). a blue haze surrounds a galaxy in the black of space. An illustration shows a halo of dark matter …

Scientific American

With just a glance at Jupiter’s small, icy moon Europa, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has bolstered the case that Earth is not our solar system’s sole habitable “ocean world.” Europa is one of the most tantalizing places in the solar system: a …

Scientific American

“I think it’s inflammatory to describe IIT as pseudoscience,” says neuroscientist Anil Seth, director of the Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex near Brighton, UK, adding that he disagrees with the label.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

This mosaic shows part of the path NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took through a portion of a boulder field dubbed “Snowdrift Peak.” With the help of its self-driving autonomous navigation system, AutoNav, Perseverance traversed the field much more quickly …

Forbes

For decades, researchers have argued over whether the sulfuric acid-rich clouds of Venus could harbor microbial life. With extraordinarily high temperatures and pressures, the surface of the planet is a veritable hellhole. But Venus’ mid-level …

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Researchers led by Randall Platt, PhD, professor of biological engineering at the department of biosystems science and engineering at ETH Zurich in Basel, have developed a method to genetically modify individual cells in animals.