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Space.com

Stephen Bowen now shares the record for the most spacewalks conducted by an American after helping to deploy the last (for now) of six new solar arrays. Comments (0). spacewalking nasa astronaut in a white spacesuit floats near the international space …

Spaceflight Now

NASA astronauts Woody Hoburg and Steve Bowen ventured back outside the International Space Station Thursday for their second spacewalk in six days to install and deploy another roll-out solar array to augment the power system on the orbiting laboratory …

Space.com

The scenic view of the Marker Band Valley was created by uniting two panoramas of the region that Curiosity took on April 8, 2023 with its black-and-white navigation cameras. One panorama was taken at 9:20 a.m. local Mars time, whereas the other was …

Space.com

NASA officials overestimated their ability to contain alien microbes after the first moon landing, a new analysis suggests. Comments (0). the three apollo 11 astronauts in a quarantine facility speaking to president richard nixon after returning.

EarthSky

On June 8, 2023, researchers at the University of Bern and University of Geneva announced that they’ve discovered four new exoplanets. Using data from the CHEOPS space telescope, they found four mini-Neptunes, planets that are less massive than Neptune …

Space.com

Heatwaves on Earth may be uncomfortable and even dangerous for some, but our planet has nothing on the blisteringly hot world of WASP-76 b. Astronomers have taken a deeper look at the exoplanet on which temperatures soar to around 4,350 degrees …

Livescience.com

Scientists used gravitational lensing to discover a rare supernova duplicated 4 times by the mass of an enormous galaxy.

Smithsonian

An artist is challenging researchers and amateurs alike to practice parsing an extraterrestrial communication. Teresa Nowakowski. Daily Correspondent. June 14, 2023 1:47 p.m.. Green Bank Telescope The Green Bank Telescope at the Green Bank Observatory …

Forbes

The tiny moon of Enceladus is quickly becoming ground zero for astrobiologists hunting for signs of life elsewhere in the solar system. A paper published today in Nature reveals the detection of phosphates on Saturn’s sixth-largest satellite—an element …

Phys.Org

The search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system just got more exciting. A team of scientists including Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Christopher Glein has discovered new evidence that the subsurface ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus …