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CNET

Across the dark canvas of space lie lots of colorful speckles representing galaxies. Many look. By combining infrared data from the JWST and X-ray data from Chandra, NASA is starting to create a …

Space.com

The SpaceX rocket aborted its launch 30 seconds before liftoff. The Falcon 9 is now set to launch on Oct. 7. … A veteran SpaceX rocket poised to make its 14th flight aborted a launch attempt on Thursday (Oct. 6) with less than one minute before liftoff.

CNET

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti dressed up as a space plane flight attendant while on the ISS. 2011 video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET. Samantha Cristoforetti contains multitudes …

Phys.Org

Complex currents often affect the motion of microswimmers and make it difficult for them to reach their destination. At the same time, making use of these currents to navigate as fast as possible is a certain evolutionary advantage.

KSL.com

WASHINGTON — Unlike the lonely sun, about half the stars in our Milky Way galaxy are in a long-term committed relationship with another star, orbiting each another in a celestial marriage called a binary system. Researchers this week described one of …

Phys.Org

A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, shows in a new study how leaf beetles could successfully use new and previously indigestible food sources in the course of evolution. The insects acquired enzymes from …

Space.com

It’s dark days for NASA’s InSight mission. NASA’s InSight lander touched down in November 2018 to study the Red Planet’s structure and seismic activity. But the lander relies on power gathered by its solar panels, and the notoriously dusty planet has …

Gizmodo

We’ve got some good news to start the weekend: A recovery team has regained control of NASA’s CAPSTONE probe, which is in the midst of a four-month journey to an elliptical halo orbit around the Moon.

CBC.ca

State-of-the-art ‘microcinematography’ provides a close-up view of larval hunting techniques. Sheena Goodyear · CBC Radio · Posted: Oct 06, 2022 5:55 PM ET | Last Updated: 4 hours ago. An extreme closeup of a mosquito larva eating another smaller …

MyEasternShoreMD

Saturn is visible at nightfall all month and remains visible in the southern sky until around 2 a.m. It lies within the dim stars of zodiac constellation Capricornus and is the brightest object there — except on Oct. 5 when the gibbous moon passes just …