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Space.com

“Artemis 1 and Orion have been phenomenal,” Nujoud Merancy, chief of the exploration mission planning office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, told Space.com in a video interview. Orion was tasked with flying …

Space.com

Artemis 1’s uncrewed Orion capsule is scheduled to return to Earth on Sunday afternoon (Dec. 11), wrapping up its nearly 26-day deep-space trek with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California.

Space.com

They found a tiny excess of light, equivalent to the glow of 10 fireflies spread across the entire sky. In a statement, NASA officials described this as being similar to walking into a room at night …

Space.com

On Wednesday (Dec. 7), skywatchers around the world were treated to a celestial show as the full moon eclipsed Mars in the night sky. The rare event, known as a lunar …

Space.com

Astronomers confirmed that four ancient galaxies detected by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early months of its operations are the oldest scientists have ever seen and nearly as old as the universe itself. The galaxies were among hundreds of …

BBC News

It’s not much to look at – just a little red blob with the rather quirky name of JADES-GS-z13-0. But this faint smudge, imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope, is the “most distant galaxy” so far confirmed by gold-standard measurement.

USA TODAY

Now, the ocean engineering and marine sciences assistant professor has reported to the Navy amphibious transport ship USS Portland in San Diego. “I’m going to be on the other coast of the United States …

CNN

Armored dinosaurs called ankylosaurs might have wielded sledgehammer-like tail clubs against one another in conflict, in addition to warding off predators like the Tyrannosaurus rex. A well-preserved fossil of an ankylosaur, a …

Livescience.com

On Oct. 4, 80-year-old John F. Clauser woke up in his California home to the news that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. He will receive the prize at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 10 together with Anton Zeilinger and Alain Aspect …

Phys.Org

The biochemical process by which cyanobacteria acquire nutrients from rocks in Chile’s Atacama Desert has inspired engineers at the University of California, Irvine to think of new ways microbes might help humans build colonies on the moon and Mars.