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Expedition 69 commander Sergey Prokopyev and flight engineer Dmitry Petelin, both of Russia’s federal space corporation Roscosmos, exited the space station’s Poisk module at 10:24 a.m. EDT (1424 GMT) on Thursday.

Spaceflight Now

Watch a replay of our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket with a classified spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office from Space Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, …

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The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft took this stunning sequence of images of its target planet Mercury during a gravity assist flyby designed to alter its speed. The flyby, which took place on Monday (June 19), saw BepiColombo whizz merely 150 …

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Earth seems to shake more after intense cosmic radiation hits its surface, a new study suggests. The surprising study by a team of Polish researchers analyzed 50 years worth of data and found that the intensity of global seismic activity correlated …

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New data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows that the atmosphere of a rocky exoplanet in the TRAPPIST-1 system is either non-existent or incredibly thin, making it unfavorable for hosting life as we know it.

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‘These new results show that stars can meet their demise in some of the densest regions of the universe, where they can be driven to collide.’ Comments (0). artist’s illustration showing a bright purple streak emanating from one arm of an orangish …

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Sergey Prokopyev, commander of the current Expedition 69 mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), and flight engineer Dmitry Petelin are scheduled to step outside the orbiting lab at about 10:20 a.m. EDT (1420 GMT).

Scientific American

The issue of what happens when the very small world meets the very large was first considered in the 1970s. That’s when British physicist Stephen Hawking began thinking about what happened to particles that experienced the unparalleled gravitational forces …

EarthSky

As they move through space, comets litter their orbits with debris. We have an annual meteor shower (and there are about a dozen major meteor showers each year), when our planet Earth passes through a stream of comet debris.

Scientific American

Since the beginnings of our scientific understanding of genetic inheritance in the 1800s and our discovery of molecules like DNA and RNA in the 1900s, we’ve seen that life is informational in nature. There is a “code” of sorts at the heart of living things …