To control a possible tropical storm, NASA is moving forward with plans to bring two astronauts and their SpaceX Ferry Back to Earth Sunday with a dip in the Gulf of Mexico. It will be the first pilot reentry of a Crew Dragon spacecraft and NASA’s first ocean landing in …
Read More »The number 4 reactor in ruins at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1987, some 14 months after the disaster. Image: Mark J. Porubcansky (AP) An experiment done aboard the International Space Station demonstrates the potential of a resistant fungus to protect astronauts from cosmic radiation. This mushroom has already …
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A Russian pilotless Progress space freighter loaded with nearly 3 tons of supplies and equipment bound for the International Space Station took off on Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and safely docked at the laboratory complex after the last-second concern about possible misalignment. Carrying out an autonomous approach, …
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It seems that the universe has a strange sense of humor. While a crown-encrusted virus has rushed around the world, a completely different corona about 100 million light-years from Earth has mysteriously disappeared. For the first time, astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have seen how the corona of a supermassive …
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The only comet in life Neowise has already been captured by astrophotographers worldwide. But Earth is not the only place where the comet is visible: Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are being treated with their own cosmic fireworks as the comet crosses the sky throughout July. As Neowise Survived …
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