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Space.com

As the world awaits the Sunday (Dec. 11) splashdown of NASA’s Orion spacecraft that will mark the end of the Artemis 1 mission, many are already looking forward to the crewed Artemis 2 flight.

Space.com

NASA shared yet more of this eye candy on Wednesday (Dec. 7), in a Twitter post that celebrated another famous moon mission.

Space.com

NASA’s most advanced robotic geologist to date has collected its first samples of broken rocks and dust from the Red Planet’s surface. The Perseverance rover drilled free two of what scientists call regolith samples as it continues its mission to …

CNN

The exoplanet Janssen (left), also known as 55 Cancri e, is a scorching hot exoplanet that zips around its host star every 17.5 hours. NASA.

CNN

An unusual bright blast of light detected by multiple telescopes in December 2021 was the result of a rare cosmic explosion that created a wealth of heavy elements such as gold and platinum. The gamma-ray burst …

Phys.Org

Stem cells are a biological wonder. They can repair, restore, replace, and regenerate cells. In most animals and humans these cells are limited to regenerating only the cell type they are assigned to. So, hair stem cells will only make hair.

Phys.Org

Recent findings by UCSF and Arc Institute scientists open up new possibilities for overcoming a fundamental challenge in drug discovery. There can be a tradeoff between optimizing a drug’s key-in-a-lock fit with its target and the drug’s ability to …

TIME

The crew of Apollo 8 had a lot of things on their minds when they splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 27, 1968, after becoming the first humans to orbit the moon—and one of the biggest was the matter of the sharks. The spacecraft hit the water …

Phys.Org

The NSF’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) has revealed new information about mysterious radio bubbles surrounding a supermassive black hole. In a new paper studying the galaxy cluster MS0735, “We’re looking at one of the most energetic outbursts ever seen …

Phys.Org

Using 12 high-powered lasers, researchers recreated small solar flares in order to study the mechanisms behind a fundamental astronomical phenomenon known as a magnetic reconnection. As recognizable as the phrase “the vast emptiness of space” is, …