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NASA’s Lunar Launcher
The massive rocket system that will ferry NASA astronauts on the Artemis II mission was moved to its launch pad Saturday, the latest step in the...
Monumental Fossil Discovery
Roughly 3,000 pounds of fossils and rock have been unearthed at Dinosaur National Monument, the National Park Service said yesterday. The...
China’s “best-in-class” fusion reactor clears a major fusion limit, a step closer to near-limitless clean energy
China’s EAST fusion reactor reportedly set a new benchmark by exceeding a key fusion performance threshold, bringing researchers closer to viable...
Hubble telescope uncovers a galaxy that went from barren to booming with stars in the blink of a cosmic eye
The Hubble Space Telescope observed a rare “failed” galaxy that suddenly began forming stars after a long dormant period, surprising astronomers....
NASA’s Mars “Slope Streaks” Confirmed as Wind-driven, Not Liquid Water
Mars: NASA and Brown University researchers concluded that mysterious dark streaks on Martian slopes—once hypothesized as water flows—are merely...
New Long-Necked Dinosaur Species Jinchuanloong Discovered in China’s Gansu Province
Gansu, China: Paleontologists found a nearly complete skull and partial skeleton of Jinchuanloong niedu, a mid-Jurassic sauropod bridging...
Research Payloads, Including Holographic Microscope and Nanomaterials for Medicine, Return From ISS
Low Earth Orbit: SpaceX’s 32nd commercial resupply mission successfully returned to Earth with a suite of scientific investigations from the...
NASA Explores “Gravity Poppers” Concept for Mapping Interiors of Small Solar System Bodies
Pasadena, California: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposes “Gravity Poppers,” tiny hopping probes to map the internal mass distribution of...
Newly Discovered Silicone Variant Exhibits Semiconductor Properties, Challenging Material Assumptions
Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan researchers identified a novel form of silicone that behaves as a semiconductor, overturning...
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