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A camera on one of the Orion spacecraft’s solar arrays captured this view Nov. 30 of the Orbital Maneuvering System engine, a leftover from the space shuttle program. Earth is visible in the distance more than a quarter-million miles away. Credit: NASA.

Space.com

Two NASA astronauts will conduct a spacewalk Saturday (Dec. 3) to install new solar arrays on the International Space Station (ISS), and you can watch the action live. Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio are scheduled to step outside the ISS at 7:25 a.m. EST …

Spaceflight Now

The orbit departure burn is the fourth of five main engine firings the Orion spacecraft will execute on on NASA’s Artemis 1 mission, a test flight of the agency’s new deep space capsule and heavy-lift rocket before astronauts strap in for a trip around the …

CNET

Two tomatoes and a head of garlic are photoshopped onto a background of space. The. Thanks to NASA’s Veggie endeavor, we may have a full-blown space restaurant one day. Getty …

CNET

The supermassive void’s extreme jet is pointed toward our planet. But don’t worry, it’s 8.5 billion light-years away. Monisha Ravisetti headshot.

Smithsonian

On February 11, a star approached a supermassive black hole and subsequently was shredded by the intense gravitational forces. From Earth, scientists observed the event as a distant flash of light. Now, researchers have determined that the bright flash …

Scientific American

For the first time, researchers have observed ants secreting a milk-like fluid that nourishes others in the colony. The research, published in Nature on 30 November, reveals that as pupae—an otherwise inactive developmental stage—ants produce a …

Reuters

WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) – The expansive dinosaur group that included big predators such as T. rex also was populated by a number of oddballs, weirdos and outcasts. A newly described dinosaur from Mongolia – the size of a goose and looking a bit …

CNET

A round patch has been abraded out of a beige Martian rock, revealing light veins. This abrasion patch on sandstone found on Mars is about 2 inches (5 centimeters) in diameter and shows white …

ABC News

Researchers mapped the seismic wave speed below the Yellowstone volcano using a technique called seismic tomography. This 3D modeling of seismic waveforms measures the volume of the melt and makes assumptions of the distribution of how the melt is …