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Spaceflight Now

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus supply ship arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, overcoming a deployment failure on one of its two power-generating solar arrays to deliver 4.1 tons of cargo and experiments to the complex.

CNN

The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a remarkably detailed image of a nearby dwarf galaxy. The near-infrared view reveals the deepest glimpse yet into a stellar panorama that could offer astronomers an ideal means of studying aspects of the early …

Phys.Org

NASA again rescheduled its long-delayed uncrewed mission to the Moon on Tuesday as Tropical Storm Nicole churned toward the east coast of Florida, officials said. A launch attempt, which had been scheduled for November 14, will now take place on …

CNET

Artemis I can’t catch a break. NASA’s much-delayed, uncrewed round-the-moon mission has a new obstacle to deal with ahead of its launch. A powerful storm is heading for Florida, and it could bring potentially damaging winds with it.

Reuters

WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) – About 11.5 billion years ago, a distant star roughly 530 times larger than our sun died in a cataclysmic explosion that blew its outer layers of gas into the surrounding cosmos, a supernova documented by astronomers in …

Phys.Org

A team of researchers from Harvard University, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Wellesley College have outlined the likely requirements to rendezvous with the next interstellar visitor.

Phys.Org

A pair of researchers at Central Michigan University has found that cichlid fish that brood their young in their mouths eat up to 40% of their offspring. For their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, Jake Sawecki and Peter Dijkstra studied …

Big Think

How would it change us to make contact with an intelligent species from elsewhere in the Universe? For one, it would refocus the human tribe, bringing an accelerated and much needed sense of unity to our species. If intelligent aliens survived for …

BioTechniques.com

The first is that spacecraft should not carry terrestrial biological materials that could compromise future studies. This aims to prevent forward contamination. The second is that Earth should be protected against the introduction of microorganisms …

New Scientist

Female Astatotilapia burtoni fish, a species in the cichlid family, don’t hunt or forage during the two weeks in which they keep their eggs and hatchlings in their mouths – leading to weight loss, reduced immunity, faster ageing and lower chances of …