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[ad_1] A team prepares NASA’s Psyche spacecraft for launch inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on December 8, 2022. Psyche will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment also interfaced with the […]

[ad_1] Generally speaking, a raptor is a bird-like dinosaur, distinguished by its upturned snout and broad nose. These beasts were quick hunters, able to tear apart their prey with the large claw that grew on singular toes upon each foot. The species was first discovered in the 1920s by Peter Kaisen while on an expedition

[ad_1] Peering back to the very earliest days of the universe sounds like something that would only be possible in science fiction, but experts have managed to find something from far back in the depths of time for real. Some of the world’s leading astronomers have discovered something ‘really surprising’ from billions of years ago

[ad_1] Researchers have discovered a rare dust particle in a meteorite, formed by a star other than our sun. Using advanced atom probe tomography, they analyzed the particle’s unique magnesium isotopic ratio, revealing its origin from a newly identified type of hydrogen-burning supernova. This breakthrough provides deeper insights into cosmic events and the formation of

[ad_1] By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent Image caption, Returning Mars samples is an immensely complex undertaking that will take years 15 April 2024 The quest to return rock materials from Mars to Earth to see if they contain traces of past life is going to go through a major overhaul. The US space agency says

[ad_1] I’d wager a guess that we are, as a species, rather fond of our home planet (our wanton carbon emissions notwithstanding). But the ugly truth is that the Earth is doomed. Someday, the Sun will enter a stage that will make life impossible on the Earth’s surface and eventually reduce the planet to nothing

[ad_1] Astronomers have found the most massive stellar-mass black hole ever discovered in our galaxy — and it’s lurking “extremely close” to Earth, according to new research. The black hole, named Gaia BH3, is 33 times more massive than our sun. Cygnus X-1, the next-biggest stellar black hole known in our galaxy, weighs only 21

[ad_1] NASA confirms mystery object that crashed through roof of Florida home came from space station US News By Associated Press Published April 15, 2024, 9:48 p.m. ET NAPLES, Fla. — NASA confirmed Monday that a mystery object that crashed through the roof of a Florida home last month was a chunk of space junk from equipment

[ad_1] The large asteroid 2013 NK4 (shown in white) has an elliptical orbit that takes it past the orbit of Mars (red) and in between the orbits of Venus (pink) and Mercury (purple). It orbits the sun every 378 days. It safely passed Earth (blue) on Monday, April 15, 2024. Image via NASA. The asteroid’s

[ad_1] The mysterious object that crashed through the roof of a Florida home last month did indeed come from the International Space Station (ISS), NASA has confirmed. That home, in the seaside city of Naples, belongs to Alejandro Otero. Shortly after the March 8 incident, Otero said he thought the offending object was part of