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Space.com

“One of those rare moments that you just can be at one with it with Mother Earth, and with the cosmos.” photo of the northern lights, showing light green and purple lights in a dark night. The view of the northern lights on May 10, 2024 from Cleveland, …

Space.com

That sentence may ring a bell for Star Wars fans, as Obi-Wan Kenobi indeed fought and defeated Anakin Skywalker on the lava planet of Mustafar. But, believe it or not, even that world has nothing on the newly discovered TOI-6713.01.

Bloomberg

Its Starship spacecraft, which is meant to serve as the lunar lander for Artemis III, is designed to launch into space atop the company’s so-called Super Heavy booster rocket; SpaceX plans to refuel Starship while it orbits Earth so that it has sufficient …

Phys.Org

A map of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation. Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration. noirlab.edu/public/images/CMB. In a new Physical Review Letters (PRL) …

Space.com

NASA has appointed its first-ever chief artificial intelligence (AI) officer, a move designed to ensure that the agency keeps up with a vital and rapidly evolving field. That person is David Salvagnini, who was serving as NASA’s chief data officer.

Spaceflight Now

The mission will bring the total number of Starlink satellite to 6,000 satellites in orbit, according to expert orbital tracker and astronomer Jonathan McDowell. Liftoff of the Starlink 6-58 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 …

The Seattle Times

Terberger was team leader of a study published last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that provided the first comprehensive report on the wooden objects excavated from 1994 to 2008 in the peat of an open-pit coal mine near …

Space.com

SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink satellites on Sunday (May 12), adding to its huge and ever-growing broadband megaconstellation. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station …

Phys.Org

The Giant Hummingbird of western South America is not one species but two, according to an international group of researchers. The northern population stays in the high Andes year-round while the southern population migrates from sea level up to 14,000 …

Popular Mechanics

Among the inner solar system, Earth is the only planet that experiences plate tectonics. A new study, using convection models, shows that Earth’s collision with the protoplanet Theia some 4.5 billion years ago, might’ve triggered early subduction in …