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Space.com

SpaceX will launch a Japanese lander and a United Arab Emirates (UAE) rover to the moon early Wednesday (Nov. 30), and you can watch the action live. The Japanese company ispace’s Mission 1 is scheduled to lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket …

CNN

The space agency confirmed Monday evening that the Orion capsule had reached the midpoint of its uncrewed mission around the moon — about 270,000 miles (434,523 kilometers) from Earth. That’s more than 40,000 miles (64,374 kilometers) beyond the far side …

CNN

Long ago, gigantic marine turtles swam the Earth’s seas. Until recently, these prehistoric giants, reaching lengths of over 3 meters (10 feet) from head to tail, had been thought to be found only in waters surrounding North America.

Phys.Org

With atomic precision, scientists built a testbed to manipulate electrons in entirely new ways with potential applications in quantum computing. Electrons are tiny objects that can carry electricity and information across materials and between devices.

CNET

About 820,000 light-years from Earth, something strange is afoot. Right in this region — which is quite close, cosmically speaking — a petite dwarf galaxy named Leo I appears to be housing an utterly massive black hole that’s been flying under the …

CNET

A sprawling new satellite built to connect directly with mobile phones on the surface is among the top 20 brightest objects in the night sky, according to astronomers who are calling it a threat to their work and humanity’s view of the universe.

Phys.Org

SpaceX is set Wednesday to launch the first private—and Japanese—lander to the Moon. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to blast off at 3:39 am (0839 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a backup date on Thursday. Until now, only the United States, …

Popular Science

Millions of years ago, the Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) grazed in the kelp forests along the Northern Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea. This marine mammal is part of the Sirenia order that includes present-day manatees.

Phys.Org

Microscopic materials analysis is essential to achieve desirable performance in next-generation nanoelectronic devices, such as low power consumption and high speeds. However, the magnetic materials involved in such devices .

Discover Magazine

Octopuses are incredibly intelligent creatures, though their intelligence is dramatically different from our own. They benefit from a big, central brain in addition to an ancillary brain in each of their eight tentacles. The animals demonstrate strange …