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CNN

The seven men wearing spacesuits in this portrait made up the first group of astronauts announced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). They were selected in April of 1959 for the Mercury Program. In …

Space.com

Chinese launch company Space Pioneer is all set for its first attempt to reach orbit, according to a photo from the country’s Jiuquan spaceport. Space Pioneer’s Tianlong 2 rocket, which can translate ( …

Livescience.com

Compact but full of optical precision, these compact Occer binoculars offer fantastic clarity and performance for their diminutive size and price. By …

Nature.com

There is a description of the ISDL architectures, learning algorithms, and analytic workflows. The performance of the ISDL models and standard architectures is evaluated using a noise-corrupted benchmark dataset. The experimental results show that …

KCRA Sacramento

Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer and astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, took to Twitter to explain what the objects might be. He said the objects are a Japanese communications package called ICS-EF, which he said was …

NBC Bay Area

Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer, said Saturday in an interview with The Associated Press that he’s 99.9% confident the streaks of light were from burning space debris. By Jennifer Mcdermott • Published 2 mins ago. Pause. 0:37.

The Wall Street Journal

Spacesuits have advanced from the 1960s to a more modern design equipped for male and female astronauts. By Joseph De Avila and Gareth Vipers. March 18, 2023. Tap story. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration recently introduced a spacesuit …

EarthSky

Yet another newly discovered space rock will safely zip past Earth, this one on March 25, 2023. It’ll sweep by at about half the Earth-moon distance. Astronomers at the observatory of La Palma, in the Canary Islands, Spain, discovered the asteroid in …

Popular Science

Does Venus have active volcanoes? Radar images from the old Magellan mission add new fuel to the debate. By Rahul Rao | Published Mar 17, 2023 2:10 PM EDT.

NBC Chicago

For one night, on March 28, five planets – Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars – will gather within a 50-degree sky sector – in what will be a rare astronomical phenomenon, according to the website Starwalk.