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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy climbs into space from Kennedy Space Center on the U.S. Space Force’s USSF-44 mission. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography. The U.S. Space Force confirmed Tuesday that a Falcon Heavy launcher placed two …

Space.com

New maps of the topography of Mars provide evidence of the existence of an ocean on the planet in its ancient history, with implications for its ability to have once supported life. A map of the Martian region known as Aeolis Dorsa — a boundary that …

Smithsonian

November 2, 2022 8:00 a.m.. VIPER NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, will seek out ice deposits in the craters of the …

Phys.Org

If you surfed the web this morning, you may have seen news of the latest existential threat to humanity: a “planet killer” asteroid named 2022 AP7. Luckily for us 2022 …

CNN

The rocket launched at 9:41 a.m. ET from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, hauling satellites to space for the US military in a secretive mission dubbed USSF-44. The Falcon Heavy debuted in …

Smithsonian

New research indicates that two genetically separate populations of people migrated to the United Kingdom after the last ice age. Scientists analyzed the remains of two humans who lived about 15,000 and 13,500 years ago, found in caves in England and …

Phys.Org

Peatlands, like seas and oceans, sequester carbon from the atmosphere. They are considered to contain the largest terrestrial carbon stores. Plant remains, and thus carbon, that break down in areas covered with water are stored under oxygen-poor …

Futurity: Research News

While scientists have extensively studied the way some types of brain cells learn as a group, the same isn’t true of cells that lack the ability to make complex, specialized connections to one another. And yet in many cases, even these simpler cells manage …

Science News

Radiation-tolerant bacteria similar to this Deinococcus radiodurans would be particularly well-suited to surviving Mars’ harsh, freezing environment, a new study suggests. Michael J. Daly/USU …

MedPage Today

Protection with mRNA vaccination for COVID-19 faded rapidly against infections from the Omicron variant in younger children, though proved more durable in adolescents, likely due to the higher dose, real-world data from Qatar suggested.