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Home News Science & Astronomy A zebra danio, or zebrafish, swims in a tank in a research institute in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province Thursday, April 22, 2021. (Image credit: Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images) China is planning to send zebrafish to its space station in the future.  The small fish species will...

Home News Spaceflight What games could you create with tie-down straps, a few circular rings and the magic of microgravity? The International Space Station (ISS) crew recently came up with one called “Space Dart,” which engaged the multinational crew in feats of flexibility. Judging from the video available on social media, the newly invented game...

Well before it was warm enough to plant seedlings in the ground, farmer Micah Barritt began nursing crops like watermelon, eggplant, and tomatoes – eventually transplanting them from his greenhouse into rich Vermont soil, hoping for a bountiful fall harvest. Within a few hours last week, those hopes were washed away when flood waters inundated...

Home News Science & Astronomy An image of the impacted asteroid, Dimorphos, with drawn-in circles arouns the areas where boulders have been detected. (Image credit: NASA) Thanks to some stunning Hubble Space Telescope observations, scientists continue to be surprised by NASA’s DART mission – this time in the form of a swarm of boulders that...

Home News Science & Astronomy Obsevations of the exoplanet PDS 70b taken with ALMA that show it being tailed by a cloud of dust indicating a “Trojan planet.” (Image credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) /Balsalobre-Ruza et al.) Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of two planetary siblings sharing the same orbit around a star. The discovery of...

Home News Science & Astronomy Artist’s representation of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flying through precipitating electrons that can trigger X-ray auroras on the surface of Mercury. (Image credit: Thibaut Roger/Europlanet (CC BY-SA 4.0)) The way in which the radiant displays of colors in the sky known as auroras form on Earth may be how these...

Home News Spaceflight A possible piece of a “foreign space launch vehicle” washed up on an Australian beach. (Image credit: Australian Space Agency) A big chunk of space junk may just have washed up on an Australian beach. The Australian Space Agency tweeted a picture Monday (July 17) of a possible piece of a “foreign...

The closest cosmic explosion to Earth in the last 10 years became a record breaker for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SET) Institute.  The supernova, designated (SN) 2023ixf, was first spotted on May 19, 2023, by Japanese amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki. Just an hour after this manifestation, amateur astronomers taking part in SETI and Unistellar’s...

Home News Spaceflight From left to right: The Orion spacecraft for the Artemis 2, Artemis 3 and Artemis 4 moon missions at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Image credit: NASA/Marie Reed) Three crew-carrying spacecraft are getting ready for their big moon missions. The Orion capsules for the Artemis 2, Artemis 3 and Artemis 4...

An Earth-observing satellite just served up a spectacular view of Wimbledon.  New satellite imagery from San Francisco-based company Planet captures a birds-eye view of the grass courts of the All England Club in London, which hosts the famous Wimbledon tennis tournament every summer. “See you on Centre Court!” Planet said in a Tuesday (July 11)...