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Happy Friday, dear reader. Welcome back to This Week in Space, where we round up the major happenings from LEO to the Oort Cloud and all points west. NASA is still working to get the Artemis moon rocket into the air, but they’ve set…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. We are in the waning days of NASA’s InSight mission, but the spirited Mars lander isn’t done with science just yet. The American Geophysical Union…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Professor Brian Pickles and paleontologist Caleb Brown stand next to the exposed parts of their newly-discovered fossil. (Photo: Melissa…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Researchers in Scotland have devised a way to “neutralize” creepy crawlies in the coolest way possible: by shooting them with a laser. Ildar…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Alexander Grey/Unsplash)“Forever chemicals,” or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), have made quite a few appearances in the…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Until recently, DART was a spacecraft about the size of a vending machine. Now, it’s debris scattered across the surface of a small asteroid called…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. NASA released an impressive desktop app some years back called “NASA’s Eyes Visualization,” which allowed you to check out the solar system, along with…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. NASA is still working toward getting Artemis 1 off the ground, which is arguably the most important milestone in its quest to return humankind to the…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Neurotransmitters binding with a neuron. (Credit: Scientific Animations/CC BY-SA 4.0)Parkinson’s disease, a progressive disorder of the central…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken pictures of stars, planets, and galaxies — now we can add exoplanets to the list. NASA reports that…
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