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Space.com

Liftoff of the Galileo L12 mission is scheduled for 8:34 p.m. ET tonight (April 27).

Space.com

That mission, Crew Flight Test (CFT), will see NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams rocket to space aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket no earlier than May 6.

Forbes

Scientists have concluded this using computer models, revealing its origin as the Giordano Bruno crater on the moon’s far side. Near-Earth Asteroids—of which the Kamo’oalewa is one—are …

Yahoo News

“That Saturday morning, we all came in, we’re sitting around boxes of doughnuts and waiting for the data to come back from Voyager,” said Linda Spilker, the project scientist for the Voyager 1 mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, …

Livescience.com

Chinese astronomers have shared the most detailed geological map of the moon ever created, revealing more than 12,000 structures. The new atlas will be essential for picking out landing locations and resource sites for future lunar missions.

BBC News

For Antarctic wildlife, exposure to the Sun’s damaging rays has increased in recent years, scientists say. A hole in the ozone layer – the protective barrier of gas in the upper atmosphere – now lingers over the frozen continent for more of the year.

BBC News

Scientists working in Antarctica discovered the hole in the ozone layer in 1985 – by measuring the amount of solar radiation reaching Earth. A large group of ozone depleting chemicals were responsible – primarily CFCs …

Florida Today

The mission is known as Galileo L12, and will see the Galileo satellites launched to their intended orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The ESA Galileo satellite system began in 2016, and there are currently 28 navigational satellites already in orbit.

Smithsonian

The footprints, left behind by a 16-foot-long creature some 96 million years ago, represent the biggest raptor tracks ever found. Aaron Boorstein. Staff Contributor. April 26, 2024 2:22 p.m. …

KGW.com

PORTLAND, Ore. — If you look at pictures of salmon from the prehistoric era, you’ll often see them with protruding teeth that pointed downward. But now, research shows that wasn’t true. “The previous scientists had figured that these big teeth had …