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Citizen Scientists Help Map Ridge Networks on Mars That May Hold Records of Ancient Groundwater
Unusual ridge networks on Mars may provide clues about the history of the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS/Caltech Murray Lab/Esri Scientists have uncovered strange ridge networks on Mars using images from spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet over the previous two decades. How and why the ridges formed, as well as what clues they may reveal about …
Rocket Lab delays Electron booster launch and recovery test to Monday
Rocket Lab has postponed the launch of an Electron booster it hopes to snatch out of the sky with a helicopter after liftoff to no earlier than Monday (May 2) due to weather. Unfavorable weather conditions are the primary reason for the launch delay, Rocket Lab officials said in an update, but the company is …
SpaceX just flew its fastest Dragon astronaut trip to the space station ever
SpaceX just set a new record for its fastest Dragon astronaut trip yet. Elon Musk’s spaceflight company launched four Crew-4 astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA in less than 16 hours on Wednesday (April 27), the shortest flight time since SpaceX began crewed flights in 2020. “This is the fastest launch to dock …
Giant tooth of ancient marine reptile discovered in Alps
The root of the thickest ichthyosaur tooth found so far with a diameter of 60mm WASHINGTON: The fossils of three ichthyosaurs — giant marine reptiles that patrolled primordial oceans — have been discovered high up in the Swiss Alps, and include the largest ever tooth found for the species, a study said Thursday. With elongated …
New Discovery Shows the Blueprint for Life May Have Been Generated in Asteroids
Conceptual image of meteoroids delivering nucleobases to ancient Earth. The nucleobases are represented by structural diagrams with hydrogen atoms as white spheres, carbon as black, nitrogen as blue and oxygen as red. Credit: NASA Goddard/CI Lab/Dan Gallagher Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and …
Dragon Endeavour Departs Space Station – Axiom Astronauts Finally Returning to Earth
The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour crew ship carrying four Axiom Mission 1 astronauts approaches the International Space Station less than a day after launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Both spacecraft were orbiting 257 miles above the Atlantic Ocean northwest of the island country of The Republic of Cabo Verde, which is off the …
Large Hadron Collider restarts to push physics to the edge
Scientists overseeing the largest particle accelerator on Earth switched it on for the first time in three years this weekend to solve some of the biggest mysteries in physics. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the powerful particle accelerator located at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, restarted on Friday (April 22) after a three-year shutdown for maintenance …
High winds off Florida coast push Axiom-1 splashdown to Monday
article A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) to the International Space Station on April 8, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky) After several delays due to weather, four private astronauts now plan to undock from the International …
NASA may soon launch a mission to Uranus! New discoveries beckon
NASA may soon make the Uranus mission a priority in the next decade. Here’s why. Uranus, the ice giant, is certainly the strangest planet in the solar system, with more than a dozen rings that circle around it and as many as 27 moons encircle it! Its atmosphere, which is full of hydrogen, helium, and …
Space Station Crew Busy With Research as Managers Work Axiom Ax-1 and SpaceX Crew-4 Missions
By NASA April 21, 2022 The SpaceX Dragon Endurance crew ship is pictured from a window aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour crew ship. Endurance is docked to the Harmony module’s forward-facing port while Endeavour is docked to Harmony’s space-facing port on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA The four private astronauts from Axiom Space are …
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