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How to watch the Eta Aquarids meteor shower tonight into the morning - KCRA Sacramento
A meteor shower will be visible in the sky beginning Thursday night, and this one features a particularly unique phenomenon.
Europe’s Space Agency Needs You to Find the Differences Between These Pictures - Gizmodo
The Rosetta spacecraft collected tons of data on one comet. It’s up to you to decipher it.
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket goes vertical for 44th Starlink launch - Teslarati
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has gone vertical at Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A ahead of the company’s 18th launch this year and 44th dedicated Starlink launch overall. Known as Starlink 4-17, the mission will kick off up to four Starlink launches planned for May …
NASA's mega moon rocket will get another prelaunch test in June - CNN
The Artemis I mega moon rocket will get another attempt of its final prelaunch test in June, according to NASA officials. A team has been working on repairing issues that cropped up during previous attempts.
The Quest for an Ideal Quantum Bit: New Qubit Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Quantum Computing - SciTechDaily
A new qubit platform could transform quantum information science and technology. You are no doubt viewing this article on a digital device whose basic unit of information is the bit, either 0 or 1. Scientists around the world are racing to develop a new type …
Rocket Lab - Space.com
The action kicks off with Rocket Lab's launch at 8:35 a.m. EDT (1235 GMT).
Scientists publish the first complete human genome - Reuters.com
Scientists on Thursday published the first complete human genome, filling in gaps remaining after previous efforts while offering new promise in the search for clues regarding disease-causing mutations and genetic variation among the world's 7.9 billion peopl…
Image of ISS taken from Earth is so clear you can see astronauts - New York Post
German photographer Sebastian Voltmer snapped a remarkable image in which you can make out two astronauts performing a spacewalk.
NASA set for SLS moon rocket's major test at Kennedy Space Center this weekend - Florida Today
NASA teams at Kennedy Space Center are set for this weekend's test of the Space Launch System moon rocket, also known as the "wet dress rehearsal."
Meet Earendel: Hubble telescope's distant star discovery gets a Tolkien-inspired name - Space.com
Tolkien fans and space fans rejoice!
Scientists claim hairy black holes explain Hawking paradox - BBC.com
Researchers say they have solved one of science's biggest paradoxes, first identified by Prof Stephen Hawking.
NASA's Mars helicopter will continue flying on red planet | TheHill - The Hill
The small Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently completed its 21st flight on the planet.
Webb telescope shares new image after reaching optics milestone - CNN
The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully completed a number of steps crucial for aligning its 18 gold mirror segments and captured a new starlight image. The telescope team expects that the observatory may even exceed the goals it was meant to achieve.
Fridge-size asteroid detected just 2 hours before it slammed into Earth - Livescience.com
It is only the fifth time that an asteroid has been detected prior to hitting Earth.
Slow moving central section of the San Andreas Fault could lead to larger earthquakes - Daily Mail
Researchers looked back through the geological record for the slow moving portion of the San Andreas fault, and found it has experienced earthquakes of magnitude seven and higher.
SpaceX says a geomagnetic storm just doomed 40 Starlink internet satellites - Space.com
The satellites launched on Feb. 3, only to be hit by the storm a day later.
Massive Sponge Gardens Discovered on the Peaks of Extinct Underwater Volcanoes in the Arctic Deep Sea - SciTechDaily
Sponges grow in large numbers and to impressive size on the peaks of extinct underwater volcanoes. Massive sponge gardens thrive on top of seamounts in the Central Arctic Ocean, one of the most oligotrophic seas on Earth. They appear to feed on the remnants o…
Solar eruptions expected to hit Earth today; geomagnetic storm to be triggered - Hindustan Times
The forecast is based on the data collected by Solar and Heliospheric Observatory mission’s Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph. The Center of Excellence in Space Sciences said that a filament eruption was observed on the Sun south of disk center on Feb…
A century later, researchers describe second opabiniid ever discovered - Phys.org
In his book Wonderful Life, the late Stephen Jay Gould, former professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, popularized the "weird wonder" stem-group arthropods Opabinia and Anomalocaris, discovered in the Cambrian Burgess Sh…
Extreme Hubble photo shows a galaxy ripping solar systems from another galaxy - Mashable
Gravity rules.