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[ad_1] A bright full moon rises at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2017. NASA / Kim Shiflett Halloween may It looks different this year due to COVID-19, but it will feature a cool spooky show to cap off a month of glorious observation of the sky: a rare …

[ad_1] Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt collecting a soil sample, his spacesuit covered in dust. NASA image AS17-145-22157. Credit: NASA When humans return to the moon, they will have a formidable challenge lurking: moondust. Talc-like lunar regolith is considered the biggest operational problem faced by lunar colonists. Within days of …

[ad_1] New research on the dreaded asteroid Apophis has found that chemical reactions taking place on the surface of the space rock could slightly push the 370-meter-wide asteroid onto a collision course with Earth. In the early 2000s, NASA feared that Apophis might hit Earth in 2029, giving it a …

[ad_1] The moon may hold water in more places and in larger quantities than scientists have suggested in the past. The finding is based on two studies, published in Nature Astonomy – which examined new data from the US space agency NASA. The discovery could be important for long-term planned …

[ad_1] A fireball that struck near Hamburg, Michigan in 2018 could offer new insights into the history of the solar system, the researchers said. The fireball, a very bright type of meteor that would even be observed in daylight, was detected in various states while flying through the sky on …

[ad_1] Genshin Impact myHoYo I’ve been in an absolute tear with Genshin Impact lately, in the last two days getting three 5 stars, including two in the same batch of ten wishes, all of which, fortunately, were free of money saved. Now I have Qiqi, someone I have loved for …

[ad_1] As I write this, there are 42 COVID-19 vaccines in various stages of human trials. Eleven of these are in large, late-stage trials. More than 100 more are in development. Certainly, over the next year, we will likely have the first of many COVID-19 vaccines ready for deployment. There …

[ad_1] There may be much more water on the Moon than previously thought, according to two studies published Monday that raise the tantalizing prospect that astronauts on future space missions may find refreshment, and perhaps even fuel, on the lunar surface. The Moon was believed to be completely dry until …

[ad_1] Aristarchus crater might be a better alternate landing site for early Artemis missions than an Apollo site, if the moon’s south pole is ruled out. (credit: NASA / GSFC / Arizona State University) by Christopher CokinosMonday, October 26, 2020 NASA Administrator James Bridenstine recently surprised the space community by …

[ad_1] To identify potential new therapeutic targets for SARS-CoV-2, a team of scientists from the New York Genome Center, New York University, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, performed a scale loss-of-function CRISPR. of the genome screened to systematically remove all genes from the human genome. The …