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The New York Times

The launching of NASA astronauts on SpaceX rockets has become routinely commonplace, but a Russian astronaut has yet to travel aboard the company’s Crew Dragon capsule. That will change on Wednesday when the Crew-5 mission takes four astronauts to the …

CNN

The James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope contributed to this image of galactic pair VV 191. Webb observed the brighter elliptical galaxy (left) and spiral galaxy (right) in near-infrared light, and Hubble collected data in visible and …

CNN

The four crew members — astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada of NASA, astronaut Koichi Wakata of JAXA, or Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and cosmonaut Anna Kikina of Roscosmos — are on track to launch aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft at 12 …

The Planetary Society

Since becoming operational in July 2022, the observatory has delivered a steady stream of beautiful cosmic pictures. These images help scientists look back through time at our early Universe, examine planets orbiting other stars, and monitor worlds in our …

EarthSky

Most theories claim the moon formed out of the debris of this collision, coalescing in orbit over months or years. But on October 4, 2022, NASA announced a new simulation that puts forth a different theory.

The New York Times

An artist’s rendering shows two Scleromochlus taylori reptiles, which are small and almost birdlike and. A life reconstruction of Scleromochlus taylori, discovered in Scotland in the early 1900s. It has proved difficult to …

Phys.Org

Scientists have shown that in one in every 4,000 births, some of the genetic code from our mitochondria—the ‘batteries’ that power our cells—inserts itself into our DNA, revealing a surprising new insight into how humans evolve.

Phys.Org

American physicist John Clauser won the 2022 Nobel Prize for a groundbreaking experiment vindicating quantum mechanics—a fundamental theory governing the subatomic world that is today the foundation for an emerging class of ultra-powerful computers.

Smithsonian

NASA and SpaceX will jointly study whether the private company could lift the space telescope to a higher orbit. Sarah Kuta. Daily Correspondent. October 5, 2022 11:23 a.m.. The Hubble Space Telescope Courtesy of NASA. AddThis Sharing Buttons.

EarthSky

Oceanographers at the University of Michigan said on October 4, 2022, that the asteroid that struck Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs – 66 million years ago – also triggered a vast, global tsunami. The great wave started out as more than a mile (1.6 …