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Space.com

The fine-guidance instrument is key to keeping the space telescope pointed in the right direction.

Spaceflight Now

Two days after launching from Kazakhstan, a Russian Progress cargo freighter docked with the International Space Station on autopilot Thursday with a fresh delivery of food, crew supplies, experiments, and CubeSats that will be released outside the complex …

Space.com

A Russian cargo spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station early Thursday morning (Feb. 17), delivering nearly 3 tons of supplies and equipment to the orbiting lab. The Progress 80 freighter docked with the station’s Poisk compartment at …

EarthSky

Astrometry is the branch of astronomy that deals with precise measurements of star positions. Astronomers measure a star position, then measure it again. And again. And, over time, they get a sense of how stars are moving across our sky, and therefore …

Scientific American

One year ago NASA’s Perseverance rover plunged through the Martian atmosphere and safely landed in Jezero Crater, a 45-kilometer-wide gouge that scientists suspect once hosted a deep, long-lived lake. The rover’s ultimate target is near Jezero’s …

Scientific American

Of the many “firsts” from NASA’s Apollo program of lunar exploration, one often overlooked is that the Apollo missions included the first—and so far only—times that humans have driven on another world. Presaging today’s eco-conscious market for …

Livescience.com

The Blue Blob is an undefined area of the North Atlantic Ocean located south of Iceland and Greenland. At its peak coldness, in 2015, the Blue Blob was 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit (1.4 degrees Celsius) colder than the surrounding waters.

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

The international research team, headed by scientists at the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, identified microRNAs (miRNAs) that were specific to accidental head impact and repetitive headers in soccer, and which …

The Hill

An Air Force research initiative is spending $7.5 million to head off the problem of “lunar traffic jams” — a potentially deadly hazard for the new generation of manned moon missions set to launch throughout the 2020s. The collaboration between the Air …

The Weather Channel

If you think Australian wildlife is crazy now, wait until to hear about the 95-million-year-old crocodile relative that fed on dinosaurs! A while ago, the fossils of a crocodilian species were first found near the Winton Formation in eastern Australia, …