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Spaceflight Now

Before determining when the Crew Flight Test, or CFT, mission might actually fly, Boeing, NASA and United Launch Alliance, builder of the Atlas 5 rocket needed to launch the Starliner, will have to assess the space station crew and cargo schedules, booster …

Space.com

A new artificial intelligence algorithm programmed to hunt for potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroids has discovered its first space rock. The roughly 600-foot-wide (180 meters) asteroid has received the designation 2022 SF289, and is expected to …

Space.com

A trio of miniature autonomous NASA rovers will soon head for the moon, with the aim of boosting the efficiency of exploration missions. The four-wheeled, carry-on-suitcase-sized moon rovers — known as Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic …

Space.com

The moon will be almost exactly half illuminated by the sun as it reaches the midway point between the full moon and the next new moon phases. Comments (0). An image of the quarter moon (Image credit: Getty images/Claudio Divizia).

CNN

Like most major meteor showers, the Perseids will be most visible to viewers in the Northern Hemisphere, just a few hours before dawn, and there is the potential to see over 50 meteors per hour streak across the sky.

CNN

A Bronze Age arrowhead unearthed in Switzerland was made from a meteor, a new study has found. Dating back to between 900 and 800 BC, the 39-millimeter-long (1.5-inch-long) arrowhead was found on a pile-dwelling site in Mörigen on Lake Biel, …

CNN

An artist’s illustration depicts Hupehsuchus just before it swallows a shoal of shrimps. Shunyi Shu/Long Cheng/Wuhan Center of China Geological Survey/Courtesy University of Bristol.

The New York Times

An illustration shows an undersea view of a marine reptile with large front flippers and an. A life reconstruction of the filter-feeding Hupehsuchus nanchangensis, an early Triassic marine reptile found in China.

TIME

Even in Antarctica—one of the most remote and desolate places on Earth—scientists say they are finding shattered temperature records and an increase in the size and number of wacky weather events. The southernmost continent is not isolated from the …

Astronomy Magazine

A July 1999 feature by Senior Editor Rex Graham asked once again “Is Pluto a Planet?” Astronomers argued that with hundreds of Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) now known, Pluto should be considered one of them. Then, in November 2005, astronomer Mike Brown said, …