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Science • Apr 05

On the brink of its greatest achievement in decades, NASA is facing science budget cuts

As the Artemis II crewed moon mission soars deeper into space than humans have traveled in decades, back on Earth, the White House has proposed slashing...

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Science • Apr 05

Artemis II crew hears from NASA Apollo astronaut on Easter

Artemis II astronauts shared an Easter message from space and heard from Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke.

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Science • Apr 05

Satellite mirror plans could disrupt sleep and ecosystems worldwide, scientists say

Letters to US agency raise concerns over tech firm's plans to use reflective satellites and expand numbers in low Earth orbit.

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Science • Apr 05

NASA administrator defends Trump’s proposed budget cuts

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on Sunday backed the Trump administration's proposed budget cuts to his agency, as the Artemis II mission continues.

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Science • Apr 05

Artemis II astronauts have toilet trouble on their way towards the Moon

The four astronauts aboard the Artemis II mission's Orion capsule have encountered intermittent complications with their spacecraft's toilet.

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Science • Apr 05

Newly discovered fossils give scientists first look at the evolution of early complex animals

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple...

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Science • Apr 05

Toilet Troubles Haunting Artemis II Crew

Mission specialist Christina Koch said the toilet smelled like a “burning heater.”

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Science • Apr 05

Chance of alien life ‘goes to heart’ of space missions, Nasa chief says

Jared Isaacman says odds of evidence we are not alone are 'pretty high' four days after Artemis II rocket lifted off.

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Science • Apr 05

Bennu sample reveals how water flowed through the newly forming asteroid

A team of US astronomers has carried out one of the deepest analyses to date of a sample from the asteroid Bennu, revealing new details about how water and...

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Science • Apr 05

On NASA’s Moon Mission, the Biggest Headache Has Been the Toilet

As NASA's Artemis II astronauts make their way to the moon this weekend, their test flight has gone surprisingly well without any major issues,...

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Science • Apr 05

Traces Of The First Stars May Have Been Discovered

The "ancient chemical remains of the first stars" may have discovered using the Gemini North telescope, according to NSF's NOIRLab.

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Science • Apr 05

The largest survey of exoplanet spins confirms a long-held prediction

For some time, astronomers have theorized that there is a connection between planetary mass and rotation. In the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn both...

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Science • Apr 05

‘Good gracious!’ Artemis 2 nears the Moon and glimpses its farside

The farside of the Moon is beginning to reveal itself to the crew Artemis 2 in this shot taken on day 4 of their mission. The Moon's South Pole is at the...

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Science • Apr 05

Mourning for dinosaurs, 65 million years too late

Dino-heads on TikTok are chopping up animated footage of the prehistoric beasts (mostly taken from the recent Netflix docuseries “The Dinosaurs”) and...

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Science • Apr 05

The powerful new Rubin Observatory just found 11,000 new asteroids and measured 'tens of thousands more'

Early observations from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have already revealed more than 11,000 previously unknown asteroids, reshaping our view of the solar...

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Science • Apr 05

Exploding primordial black holes might have reshaped the early universe, and created all matter as we know it

The early universe is absolutely so far outside our understanding of how the world works it's hard to describe in words. Back then, the cosmos wasn't filled...

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Science • Apr 05

Artemis 2 moon astronauts will try to recreate Apollo 8's historic 'Earthrise' photo during April 6 flyby

Plans are in place for the crew of Artemis 2 to try to replicate one of the most famous images ever taken from space — Apollo 8's shot of Earth rising over...

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Science • Apr 05

They Went Snorkeling in a Cave and Found the Floor Covered in Ancient Bones

When a local cave explorer photographed bones scattered across the floor of an underground stream in Central Texas, he had little idea what he had stumbled...

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Science • Apr 05

In 2019, Scientists Discover a Fungus That Eats Gold. Some Already Want to Weaponize It for Space Mining

Most living things can't touch gold. It's chemically dead to them. But a common soil fungus found a way in, and now it wears the metal like armor.

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Science • Apr 05

11,000 new asteroids! Astronomers call it ‘tip of iceberg’

There were approximately 1.45 to 1.5 million known asteroids cataloged in our solar system before the Vera C. Rubin Observatory began its new surveys in...

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