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Chinese astronauts Chen Dong (C), Liu Yang (R) and Cai Xuzhe attend a news conference before the Shenzhou-14 spaceflight mission, China's third crewed mission to build its space station, at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China June 4, 2022. Photo: China Daily via Reuters

China to launch next crewed mission on Sunday to build space station

China to launch next crewed mission on Sunday to build space station

China will launch a spacecraft on Sunday carrying three astronauts to the core module of the unfinished Chinese space station, where they will work and live for six months as construction enters advanced stages.
China will launch a spacecraft on Sunday carrying three astronauts to the core module of the unfinished Chinese space station, where they will work and live for six months as construction enters advanced stages.
Science and Tech 04 Jun, 2022
FILE - This Dec. 6, 2018 image made available by NASA shows the InSight lander. Photo: NASA via AP, File

Dusty demise for NASA Mars lander in July; power dwindling

Dusty demise for NASA Mars lander in July; power dwindling

A NASA spacecraft on Mars is headed for a dusty demise. The Insight lander is losing power because of all the dust on its solar panels. NASA said Tuesday it will keep using the spacecraft's seismometer to register marsquakes until the power peters out, likely in July. Then flight controllers will monitor InSight until the end of this year, before calling everything off.
A NASA spacecraft on Mars is headed for a dusty demise. The Insight lander is losing power because of all the dust on its solar panels. NASA said Tuesday it will keep using the spacecraft's seismometer to register marsquakes until the power peters out, likely in July. Then flight controllers will monitor InSight until the end of this year, before calling everything off.
Science and Tech 18 May, 2022
The plant species Arabidopsis thaliana is seen sprouting at a University of Florida laboratory in a small amount of lunar regolith – soil from the moon – May 5, 2021. Photo: Tyler Jones, UF/IFAS Lunar Plants Research Documentation/Handout via Reuters

In one giant leap for Earth plants, seeds are grown in moon soil

In one giant leap for Earth plants, seeds are grown in moon soil

Scientists for the first time have grown seeds in soil from the moon - samples retrieved during NASA missions in 1969 and 1972 - in an achievement that heralds the promise of using earthly plants to support human outposts on other worlds.
Scientists for the first time have grown seeds in soil from the moon - samples retrieved during NASA missions in 1969 and 1972 - in an achievement that heralds the promise of using earthly plants to support human outposts on other worlds.
Science and Tech 13 May, 2022
This is the first image of Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short), the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Photo: EHT Collaboration/National Science Foundation/Handout via Reuters

Scientists unveil image of 'gentle giant' black hole at Milky Way's center

Scientists unveil image of 'gentle giant' black hole at Milky Way's center

Scientists on Thursday provided the first look at the "gentle giant" lurking at the center of our Milky Way galaxy - an image of a supermassive black hole that devours any matter within its huge gravitational pull but is currently on a bit of a diet.
Scientists on Thursday provided the first look at the "gentle giant" lurking at the center of our Milky Way galaxy - an image of a supermassive black hole that devours any matter within its huge gravitational pull but is currently on a bit of a diet.
Science and Tech 13 May, 2022
FILE PHOTO: This artist’s concept released October 30, 2017 shows a black hole with an accretion disk - a flat structure of material orbiting the black hole – and a jet of hot gas, called plasma. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via Reuters/File

Black hole hunters cast gaze at center of the Milky Way galaxy

Black hole hunters cast gaze at center of the Milky Way galaxy

​​​​​​​Residing at the center of our spiral-shaped Milky Way galaxy is a beast - a supermassive black hole possessing 4 million times the mass of our sun and consuming any material including gas, dust and stars straying within its immense gravitational pull.
​​​​​​​Residing at the center of our spiral-shaped Milky Way galaxy is a beast - a supermassive black hole possessing 4 million times the mass of our sun and consuming any material including gas, dust and stars straying within its immense gravitational pull.
Science and Tech 11 May, 2022
This artist’s impression shows a two-star system, with a white dwarf (in the foreground) and a companion star (in the background), where stellar explosions called micronovae may occur. The white dwarf steals materials from its companion, which is funnelled towards its poles. As the material falls on the hot surface of the white dwarf, it triggers a micronova explosion, contained at one of the star’s poles. Photo: Mark Garlick/European Southern Observatory/Handout via Reuters

Surprised astronomers find new type of star explosion - a micronova

Surprised astronomers find new type of star explosion - a micronova

Astronomers have detected a previously unknown type of stellar explosion called a micronova involving thermonuclear blasts at the polar regions of a type of burned-out star called a white dwarf after it has siphoned material from a companion star.
Astronomers have detected a previously unknown type of stellar explosion called a micronova involving thermonuclear blasts at the polar regions of a type of burned-out star called a white dwarf after it has siphoned material from a companion star.
Science and Tech 21 Apr, 2022
FILE PHOTO: A view of Jupiter's moon Europa created from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s, according to NASA, obtained by Reuters May 14, 2018. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute/ Handout via Reuters/File

Europa's similarity to Greenland hints that Jupiter moon could harbor life

Europa's similarity to Greenland hints that Jupiter moon could harbor life

The uncanny resemblance between features on Europa's frozen surface and a landform in Greenland that sits atop a sizable pocket of water are providing intriguing new indications that this moon of Jupiter may be capable of harboring life.
The uncanny resemblance between features on Europa's frozen surface and a landform in Greenland that sits atop a sizable pocket of water are providing intriguing new indications that this moon of Jupiter may be capable of harboring life.
Science and Tech 20 Apr, 2022
The "Great Dark Spot", a storm in the atmosphere and the bright, light-blue smudge of clouds that accompanies the storm is seen on the planet Neptune, taken by the NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 less than five days before its closest approach of the planet on August 25, 1989. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via Reuters

The forecast on planet Neptune is chilly - and getting colder

The forecast on planet Neptune is chilly - and getting colder

Frigid and far-flung Neptune, our solar system's outermost planet, is adding to its reputation as an enigmatic world, with astronomers puzzled by a surprising drop in its atmospheric temperatures during the past two decades.
Frigid and far-flung Neptune, our solar system's outermost planet, is adding to its reputation as an enigmatic world, with astronomers puzzled by a surprising drop in its atmospheric temperatures during the past two decades.
Science and Tech 15 Apr, 2022
A timeline graphic displaying the earliest galaxy candidates, including the newly discovered HD1, and the history of the universe is seen in this undated handout image. Photo: Harikane et al., NASA, EST and P. Oesch/Yale/Handout via Reuters

Earliest-known galaxy offers clues about the primordial universe

Earliest-known galaxy offers clues about the primordial universe

Astronomers have discovered what may be the earliest and most distant galaxy ever observed, one that formed relatively soon after the Big Bang event that marked the origin of the universe and may be populated by the novel first generation of stars.
Astronomers have discovered what may be the earliest and most distant galaxy ever observed, one that formed relatively soon after the Big Bang event that marked the origin of the universe and may be populated by the novel first generation of stars.
Science and Tech 08 Apr, 2022
An artist's illustration shows a massive, newly forming exoplanet called AB Aurigae b. Photo: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)/Handout via Reuters

Gigantic Jupiter-like alien planet observed still 'in the womb'

Gigantic Jupiter-like alien planet observed still 'in the womb'

Scientists have observed an enormous planet about nine times the mass of Jupiter at a remarkably early stage of formation - describing it as still in the womb - in a discovery that challenges the current understanding of planetary formation.
Scientists have observed an enormous planet about nine times the mass of Jupiter at a remarkably early stage of formation - describing it as still in the womb - in a discovery that challenges the current understanding of planetary formation.
Science and Tech 06 Apr, 2022
The Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov is seen during its docking to the International Space Station (ISS) on March 18, 2022. Photo: Anton Shkaplerov/Roscosmos/Handout via Reuters

Russia says cooperation in space only possible once sanctions are lifted

Russia says cooperation in space only possible once sanctions are lifted

Russia's space director said on Saturday that the restoration of normal ties between partners at the International Space Station (ISS) and other joint space projects would be possible only once Western sanctions against Moscow are lifted.
Russia's space director said on Saturday that the restoration of normal ties between partners at the International Space Station (ISS) and other joint space projects would be possible only once Western sanctions against Moscow are lifted.
Science and Tech 02 Apr, 2022
Eight environment journalists from Nepal, India and Bangladesh will be part of an expedition to the Everest region to attend a climate change boot camp that will enable nuanced science reporting from the tough and underreported terrain.

Himalayan Climate Boot Camp 2022 taking science journalists to unchartered heights

Himalayan Climate Boot Camp 2022 taking science journalists to unchartered heights

Eight environment journalists from Nepal, India and Bangladesh will be part of an expedition to the Everest region to attend a climate change boot camp that will enable nuanced science reporting from the tough and underreported terrain.
Eight environment journalists from Nepal, India and Bangladesh will be part of an expedition to the Everest region to attend a climate change boot camp that will enable nuanced science reporting from the tough and underreported terrain.
Science and Tech 28 Mar, 2022
Photo Courtesy: European Space Agency

Russia to work on solo Mars mission after Europe freezes joint project: Interfax

Russia to work on solo Mars mission after Europe freezes joint project: Interfax

Russia will start work on its own Mars mission given that the European Space Agency (ESA) has suspended a joint project in the wake of the Ukraine invasion, Interfax news agency quoted a top official as saying on Friday.
Russia will start work on its own Mars mission given that the European Space Agency (ESA) has suspended a joint project in the wake of the Ukraine invasion, Interfax news agency quoted a top official as saying on Friday.
Science and Tech 19 Mar, 2022
FILE PHOTO: The International Space Station (ISS) crew members Mark Vande Hei of NASA, cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos are pictured during space suit check at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan April 9, 2021. Photo: Irina Spector/GCTC/Roscosmos/Handout via Reuters/File

Russian cosmonauts set for Friday launch to International Space Station

Russian cosmonauts set for Friday launch to International Space Station

Three Russian cosmonauts were due for launch on Friday to the International Space Station (ISS), continuing a two-decade-plus shared Russian-U.S. presence aboard the orbiting outpost despite heightened terrestrial tensions between Moscow and Washington.
Three Russian cosmonauts were due for launch on Friday to the International Space Station (ISS), continuing a two-decade-plus shared Russian-U.S. presence aboard the orbiting outpost despite heightened terrestrial tensions between Moscow and Washington.
Science and Tech 18 Mar, 2022
This undated artist rendition provided by the European Space Agency shows the ESA ExoMars robot on Mars. Photo: Thiebaut/ESA-AOES medialab via AP

No European Mars mission this year, due to war in Ukraine

No European Mars mission this year, due to war in Ukraine

Because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Europe is going to have to wait at least several more years and may need NASA's help before its first planned Mars rover can drill into the planet's dusty surface, seeking signs of whether it ever hosted life.
Because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Europe is going to have to wait at least several more years and may need NASA's help before its first planned Mars rover can drill into the planet's dusty surface, seeking signs of whether it ever hosted life.
Science and Tech 18 Mar, 2022

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