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Spaceflight Now

The one-ton Hakuto-R lander is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 3:39 a.m. EST (0839 GMT) Wednesday. The Falcon 9 rocket will send the spacecraft on a …

The New York Times

In an experiment that ticks most of the mystery boxes in modern physics, a group of researchers announced on Wednesday that they had simulated a pair of black holes in a quantum computer and sent a message between them through a shortcut in space-time …

Space.com

On Wednesday (Nov. 30), Mars will make its closest approach to Earth, appearing bigger and brighter in the sky than usual and offering skywatchers an excellent opportunity to observe the Red Planet.

Phys.Org

For more than a century, it had been assumed that the mechanism enabling a mobile beak evolved after the extinction of the dinosaurs. However, the new discovery, reported in the journal Nature, suggests that our understanding of how the modern bird skull …

The Weather Channel

And this first-of-its-kind work was made possible by an indigenously designed and built SARAS 3 radio telescope, which was deployed at the Dandiganahalli Lake and Sharavati backwaters in Northern Karnataka. SARAS is an acronym for Shaped Antenna …

CNET

Only a few of our universe’s voids lie this close to our planet, and understanding them could be the key to astronomy’s future. Monisha Ravisetti headshot.

Yahoo News

This phenomenon is known as a tidal disruption event (TDE). It’s rare. But if astronomers spot one, it gives them the chance to observe a black hole eating celestial objects in action.

USA TODAY

Two minerals never seen on Earth before were discovered in a gigantic meteorite weighing 16.5 tons, offering researchers possible clues about how the space rocks are formed. The brand new minerals were found in a 2.5-ounce slice of the El Ali meteorite …

Nextgov

Although the Orion spacecraft is uncrewed for this mission, Artemis I is just the first step in taking humans back to the moon. And the moon is not really the final goal either. It’s more of a stepping stone on the path to Mars.

Science News

Ancient DNA may be leading paleontologists astray in attempts to date when woolly mammoths and woolly rhinos went extinct. In 2021, an analysis of plant and animal DNA from the Arctic spanning about the last 50,000 years suggested that mammoths …