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Space.com

“It must be aliens,” some geeks speculated. (It wasn’t, of course.) Now, a pair of new studies has revealed that these cosmic ripples are puffs of organic dust that was generated and then spread across the universe by an odd star system.

Space.com

The first SpaceX Falcon Heavy flight in more than three years is set to take place at the end of October, carrying a national security mission for the U.S. Space Force. The fourth Falcon Heavy rocket is set to launch from Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy …

The New York Times

Dakota the “dino mummy” has fascinated paleontologists and the public since part of the fossil was first untombed in North Dakota with some of its skin preserved. Scientists are not finished making discoveries about Dakota, a duck-billed dinosaur, …

The New York Times

That winning strike was the first of its kind. “We conducted humanity’s first planetary defense test,” said Bill Nelson, the administrator of NASA, during a news conference, “and we showed the world that NASA is serious as a defender of this planet.”.

Phys.Org

The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, pushing it into a smaller, faster orbit around its big brother Didymos, NASA chief Bill Nelson announced.

USA TODAY

VIERA, Fla. — NASA is targeting mid-November for its next launch attempt of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule for the debut Artemis I mission around the moon and back. Liftoff is set for Nov. 14, at 12:07 a.m. ET — a deviation from the …

CNET

Success! The spacecraft redirects the space rock Dimorphos in a test of planetary protection. Eric Mack headshot. Eric Mack.

CNET

Watch out, gamers. Scientists have created a worthy gaming opponent — in a lab. After placing a collection of 800,000 live human and mouse brain cells into a dish, an Australian-led team of researchers found the biological conglomerate quickly …

CBS News

How did they come to such a discovery? University of Arizona researchers created hypothetical scenarios of Martian ecosystems using models of Mars’ crust, atmosphere and climate, as well as an ecological model of methane-producing microbes.

Smithsonian

October 12, 2022 4:10 p.m.. Dimorphos in space Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by the DART spacecraft 11 seconds before impact. NASA / Johns …