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NASA spacewalker Kayla Barron is pictured during a six-hour and 32 minute spacewalk on Dec. 2, 2021, to replace a failed antenna system on the International Space Station's Port-1 truss structure

NASA astronauts conduct spacewalk to provide space station power upgrades

MBARI's autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is recovered after completing a successful seafloor mapping mission in the Arctic Ocean. The remotely operated vehicle (ROV, foreground) is used to conduct visual surveys of the newly mapped seafloor.

Holes the size of city blocks are forming in the Arctic seafloor

Starboard bow

Pristine ship discovered in Antarctica 107 years after it sank

he International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab that took place following its undocking from the Harmony module's space-facing port on Nov. 8, 2021. The orbital complex was flying 263 miles above the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean when this photograph was taken.

Capturing the heritage of the International Space Station before it crashes into the ocean

NASA is preparing for the Artemis I mission at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

NASA will send your name around the moon. Here's how to sign up

A tourist captured a video of a wolverine in the Northeast section of Yellowstone National Park.

Rare wolverine sighting in Yellowstone was captured on video

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Newly discovered rainbow-colored fish lives in the ocean's 'twilight zone'

Photo from fieldwork at the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet in 2019.

Massive meteor crater discovered beneath Greenland's ice is much older than thought

The International Space Station (ISS) was photographed by one of the STS-98 crew members aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis following separation of the Shuttle and Station on February 16, 2001.

Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian space chief engage in Twitter fight

Our sun keeps flaring and these 2 missions are capturing it all

An artistic reconstruction of the newly discovered 328-million-year-old vampyropod.

Fossil of 328 million-year-old octopus relative still has suckers on its arms

Jorō spiders weave golden webs in open areas such as some hiking and biking paths.

Giant venomous spiders infiltrated the southeastern US and are expected to spread rapidly, experts say

Aerial view showing a boat speeding on the Jurura river in the municipality of Carauari, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, on March 15, 2020.

Amazon near tipping point of shifting from rainforest to savannah, study suggests

Controversial rock art may depict extinct giants of the ice age

Impact craters cover the surface of the moon as its seen over Berlin, Germany, January 11.

This is what happens when space junk hits the moon

An invasive species now has a new name to replace ethnic slur

Aerial photograph of Stonehenge.

Stonehenge was an ancient time-keeping system, archaeologist says

Impact craters cover the surface of the moon as its seen over Berlin, Germany, January 11.

Space junk set to crash into the far side of the moon

Bashanosaurus primitivus - the newest and oldest species of stegosaur in Asia

Dinosaur fossil discovery may be the oldest stegosaur ever found

Smaller than a penny, the flower-like rock artifact on the left was imaged by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the end of its robotic arm. The image was taken on Feb. 24, 2022, the 3,396th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The "flower," along with the spherical rock artifacts seen to the right, were made in the ancient past when minerals carried by water cemented the rock.

Tiny 'flower' formation spotted on Mars by Curiosity rover

Impact craters cover the surface of the moon as its seen over Berlin, Germany, January 11.

Expected collision of rocket part with moon to take place imminently

Artist's rendering of the GOES-R spacecraft.

The new weather satellite that could spot wildfires before we do

The launch of the ExoMars rover was very unlikely to happen this year, the European Space Agency said.

Europe's Mars rover 'very unlikely' to launch in 2022 due to Ukraine invasion

Fossil skeleton of the famous Sue the T. Rex in display at The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois.

Tyrannosaurus rex may have been misunderstood

The Full Sun Imager of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager on board the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft captured a giant solar eruption on 15 February 2022. This is the largest solar prominence eruption ever observed in a single image together with the full solar disc.

Spacecraft witnesses massive solar eruption

A composite radio (LoTSS; red) and infrared (WISE; white) image of the Coma cluster which is over 300 million light years from Earth and consists of over 1,000 individual galaxies. The radio image shows radiation from highly energetic particles that pervade the space between the galaxies.

New map of the night sky reveals 4.4 million galaxies and other space objects

DNA reveals biggest-ever human family tree, dating back 100,000 years

'Weird' space triangle captured by Hubble Space Telescope

Illustration: Artistic reconstruction by Joschua Knüppe of the Seiche wave surging into the Tanis river, bringing in fishes and everything in its path (dinosaurs, trees) while impact spherules rain down from the sky. Some dinosaurs are still trying to get away but we know they will not get far. Ants try to get back into their nest as the just blooming dianthus in the foreground are already being impacted by the impact spherules. Credit: Joschua Knüppe

The asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs struck in springtime

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, operated by NASA and the European Space Agency captured a giant solar eruption on 15 February, 2022. This is the largest solar prominence eruption ever observed in a single image together with the full solar disc.

Solar eruption captured in an unprecedented image

Removing skeleton from beach

'Exceedingly rare' fossil of giant flying reptile discovered on Scottish island

Artist's impression of the exoplanet WASP-121 b. It belongs to the class of hot Jupiters. Due to its proximity to the central star, the planet's rotation is tidally locked to its orbit around it. As a result, one of WASP-121 b's hemispheres always faces the star, heating it to temperatures of up to 3000 degrees Celsius. The night side is always oriented towards cold space, which is why it is 1500 degrees Celsius cooler there.

The weather on this exoplanet includes metal clouds and rain made of precious gems

Hundreds of yellow-headed blackbirds crashed to the ground in Chihuahua, Mexico, leaving many dead.

A predator could have sent hundreds of blackbirds crashing to their death in Mexico

Unlock the secrets of Stonehenge through rare artifacts

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (3.9 meters) from the rover. This image was taken by the WASTON camera on the rover's robotic arm on April 6, 2021, the 46th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

A year after landing on Mars, Perseverance rover sets sights on intriguing new target

• Nebra Sky Disc, Germany, about 1600 BC. Photo courtesy of the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt, Juraj Lipták
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Artifacts reveal secrets of Stonehenge

This image of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A combines some of the first X-ray data collected by NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, shown in magenta, with high-energy X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, in blue.

Glowing clouds surround an exploded star in NASA mission's stunning first image

NEW YORK, USA - FEBRUARY 27: Full Snow Moon rises over the One Tower Building in Lower Manhattan of New York City as seen from Newark in New Jersey, United States on February 27, 2021. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

February's snow moon will light up the sky

EMBARGOED 2/15/22 12AM EST Folmannia orthoclada on rock in Atacama Desert, northern Chile (March 2020). This lichen contains a Trebouxia photobiont.

Earth is heating up too quickly for these tiny organisms to adapt

PENZANCE, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: Clouds clear to allow a view of the final full moon of the year, a so-called 'Cold Moon', as it appears behind lights illuminating Penzance seafront on December 13, 2016 in Cornwall, England. The last full moon of the year was also the final supermoon of 2016. The natural phenomenon occurs when the perigee (closest approach by the Moon to Earth) coincides with it being full (completely illuminated by the Sun). (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Origin of rocket on course to slam into moon wrongly identified

African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) in savanna. Close up. Masai Mara National Park. Kenya.

Tracing DNA of related elephants reveals illegal ivory trafficking networks

Hypothetical life restoration of "Dolly". Note that the pulmonary disease infecting this animal would not have been externally evident, but the probable pneumonia-like outward symptoms would have included coughing, labored breathing, nasal discharge, fever, and weight loss among others.

Fossil shows that dinosaurs got sick just like us

This "selfie" was created using a specialized pupil imaging lens inside of the NIRCam instrument that was designed to take images of the primary mirror segments instead of images of space. This configuration is not used during scientific operations and is used strictly for engineering and alignment purposes. In this case, the bright segment was pointed at a bright star, while the others aren't currently in the same alignment. This image gave an early indication of the primary mirror alignment to the instrument.

Webb telescope's first test images include an unexpected 'selfie'

Bay-breasted Warbler, male bird in the wild

How birds are adapting to climate crisis

Surface features seen in the WISPR images (left) match ones seen in those from the Magellan mission (right).

Venus glows like 'iron pulled from a forge' in new image

Hypothetical life restoration of "Dolly". Note that the pulmonary disease infecting this animal would not have been externally evident, but the probable pneumonia-like outward symptoms would have included coughing, labored breathing, nasal discharge, fever, and weight loss among others.

Discovery of what ailed Dolly the dinosaur is a first, researchers say

This artist's impression shows a close-up view of Proxima d, a planet candidate recently found orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. The planet is believed to be rocky and to have a mass about a quarter that of Earth. Two other planets known to orbit Proxima Centauri are visible in the image too: Proxima b, a planet with about the same mass as Earth that orbits the star every 11 days and is within the habitable zone, and candidate Proxima c, which is on a longer five-year orbit around the star.

Third potential planet discovered around star closest to our sun

View of the excavation on the Neronian layer dated to 54.000 years old © Ludovic Slimak.

A tiny tooth unearthed from a French cave is upending what we know about early humans

Scientists from Bremerhaven, Bremen and Kiel discovered a surprisingly rich and densely populated ecosystem on the peaks of extinct underwater volcanoes in the Arctic deep sea. These were dominated by sponges, growing there in large numbers and to impressive size.

Sprawling sponge gardens found deep beneath the Arctic sea ice

This photo shows a chimpanzee female, Roxy, applying an insect to a wound on the face of an adult chimpanzee male named Thea.

Chimpanzees apply 'medicine' to each others' wounds in a possible show of empathy

he International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab that took place following its undocking from the Harmony module's space-facing port on Nov. 8, 2021. The orbital complex was flying 263 miles above the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean when this photograph was taken.

This is the space graveyard where the International Space Station will be buried

The Poas Volcano crater and Laguna Caliente from the crater edge.

Why a toxic volcanic lake on Earth reminds scientists of Mars

The Poas Volcano crater and Laguna Caliente from the crater edge.

Toxic volcanic lake reveals how life may have been possible on ancient Mars

Artist's rendering of the GOES-R spacecraft.

Keeping a weather eye on Earth from 22,236 miles above the planet

Using the 4.1-meter SOAR (Southern Astrophysical Research) Telescope on Cerro Pachón in Chile, astronomers have confirmed that an asteroid discovered in 2020 by the Pan-STARRS1 survey, called 2020 XL5, is an Earth Trojan (an Earth companion following the same path around the Sun as Earth does) and revealed that it is much larger than the only other Earth Trojan known. In this illustration, the asteroid is shown in the foreground in the lower left. The two bright points above it on the far left are Earth (right) and the Moon (left). The Sun appears on the right.

Earth has a newly discovered rare asteroid companion

The mobile launcher for the Artemis I mission, atop crawler-transporter 2, arrives at the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 30, 2020.

NASA's Artemis 1 final prelaunch test delayed until March

The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab that took place following its undocking from the Harmony module's space-facing port on Nov. 8, 2021.

NASA plans to retire the International Space Station by 2031 by crashing it into the Pacific Ocean

Examples of human vertebrae on posts found in Peru's Chincha Valley

Nearly 200 human spines found threaded onto posts in Peru

The flowers have evolved traits that allow it to thrive in fire-prone areas.

99 million-year-old flowers found perfectly preserved in amber bloomed at the feet of dinosaurs

Laurie Leshin formally assumes her roles as director of NASA JPL and vice president of Caltech in May.

First female director appointed for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

It may look like like a sawed off tree stump but it's actually a crater on Mars.

Rings in 'tree stump' crater found on Mars illuminate red planet's past climate

Meet the man who can explain the first 3 billion years of life on our planet

What an astronaut could see from space that changed him for good

TOPSHOT - A photo taken on May 13, 2019 shows a view of the moon in Cannes, southern France. - The Moon is steadily shrinking, causing wrinkling on its surface and quakes, according to an analysis of imagery captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) published Monday May 13, 2019. (Photo by Laurent EMMANUEL / AFP) (Photo credit should read LAURENT EMMANUEL/AFP via Getty Images)

A rocket booster could crash into the moon in the next few weeks

After completing the first of 10 spacewalks to upgrade the station, astronaut Christina Koch wrote: "The great @Space_Station battery swap series of spacewalks is underway! A joy & privilege working with @AstroDrewMorgan outside, @astro_luca as the lead for suits & airlock, @Astro_Jessica as robotic arm operator, & the incredible teams in Houston. 3 batteries complete, 9 to go!"

Avoiding the 'time warp' of living in space could help astronauts thrive on Mars

This image shows a new view of the Milky Way from the Murchison Widefield Array, with the lowest frequencies in red, middle frequencies in green, and the highest frequencies in blue. The star icon shows the position of the mysterious repeating transient.

Unknown space object beaming out radio signals every 18 minutes remains a mystery

African Clawed-frog (Xenopus laevis)

Frogs can regrow amputated limbs after being treated with mix of drugs, new research finds

A mosaic image (without labels) with the background removed to isolate the magnetic filaments. The magnetic filaments are large, vertical slashes throughout the image.

Hundreds of mysterious strands found at the heart of the Milky Way

Close up of the hybrid camels in the frieze, flanking a royal figure.

Ancient Arab temple art reveals hybrid camels

Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Telescope reaches its final destination a million miles from Earth

This mosaic of Saturn's moon Mimas was created from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its closest flyby of the moon in February 2010. A new study suggests that the moon is either shaped like a football or it contains a liquid water ocean.

Saturn's ice moon could be a 'stealth' ocean world hospitable to life

A simulated image released by China's Space Debris Monitoring and Application Center shows how close the debris from Russia's recent anti-satellite test came to their satellite.

Debris from Russian missile test nearly strikes a Chinese satellite

Stunning find discovered hiding in the ocean's 'twilight zone'

Dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10 sparkles with young stars in this Hubble visible-light image. The bright region at the center, surrounded by pink clouds and dark dust lanes, indicates the location of the galaxy's massive black hole and active stellar nurseries.

A black hole fueling star birth has scientists doing a double-take

Images acquired Jan. 9, 2022, from the Mars Color Imager instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter were combined to create this view showing the presence of a regional dust storm obscuring the location of Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (white circle).

Ingenuity helicopter flight stalled for first time due to unusual Mars weather

A non-native European green crab that was trapped and removed from Seadrift Lagoon in Stinson Beach, California in 2017. The invasive crustaceans have been plaguing the Pacific coast from Monterey Bay north to British Columbia for the past several years.

Emergency order to tackle green crab infestation in Washington

The Doomsday Clock remained at 100 seconds to midnight in 2022 - the same time it's been set as since 2020.

The Doomsday Clock reveals how close we are to...doom

Life reconstruction of the dinosaur Struthiosaurus austriacus from the Late Cretaceous of Austria.

'Living fortress' dinosaur was lonesome, sluggish and hard of hearing

A new species of tarantula discovered by Thai YouTube star

A wild panda named "Happiness" feeds on a bamboo shoot in Foping Nature Reserve, Shaanxi province, China, in 2013. He is a long monitored giant panda in Dr. Fuwen Wei's study and they have collected samples from Happiness for this study. Dr. Fuwen WEI is a Professor, CAS Academician and TWAS Fellow at the Key Lab of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing, China.

Bacteria help pandas get the most out of being picky eaters, study says

Recreation of the straws in use (credit: Antiquity Publications Ltd, Kelvin Wilson)

Any copy regarding this research is embargoed until the day of publication: 00:01 (UK time) on Wednesday, January 19th

King Tut's tomb had a scepter. This ancient burial had something entirely different

A huge, kilometer-wide asteroid will pass by Earth today

People stand beside St Michael's Tower as they watch the full moon, sometimes known as a "Wolf Moon", rise behind Glastonbury Tor in Glastonbury, Britain, January 17, 2022. REUTERS/Toby Melville

Wolf Moon: Stunning images show the first full moon of 2022 in all its glory

A selfie taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Sol 2291 at the "Rock Hall" drill site, located on Vera Rubin Ridge. Reduced carbon released from powder from this drill hole was strongly depleted in carbon 13, the surprising carbon isotopic signature reported by the team. The selfie is composed of 57 individual images taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), a camera on the end of the rover's robotic arm. CREDIT NASA/Caltech-JPL/MSSS.

Ancient life may be just one possible explanation for Mars rover's latest discovery

The Wolf Moon will peak in the sky during the evening of Monday, January 17.

Don't miss the full 'wolf' moon light up the sky tonight

Treasure trove of ancient Roman discoveries unearthed in Europe

David Saint Jacques collecting breath, ambient air, and blood samples for MARROW.

Astronauts experience 'space anemia' when they leave Earth

DNA sequencing solves mystery of earliest hybrid animal's identity

The discovery of a second exomoon candidate hints at the possibility that exomoons may be as common as exoplanets.

Massive object could be an interstellar moon, a rare find

An icefish colony discovered in Antarctica is world's largest fish breeding ground

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An icefish colony discovered in Antarctica is world's largest known fish breeding ground

How this weird giant planet came to look like a football

Survey and excavations took place at Quilcapampa, Peru from 2013-2017.
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Psychedelic-laced beer may have helped this ancient South American empire rule

A kilometer-wide asteroid will make its closest pass by Earth next week

Medieval horses were no bigger than modern-day ponies, study suggests

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Full Mirror Deployment a Success

In a recent test, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its primary mirror into the same configuration it will have when in space.

In order to perform the groundbreaking science expected of Webb, its primary mirror needs to be so large that it cannot fit inside any rocket available in its fully extended form. Performed in early March, this test involved commanding the spacecraft's internal systems to fully extend and latch Webb's iconic 6.5 meter (21 feet 4-inch) primary mirror.

"Deploying both wings of the telescope while part of the fully assembled observatory is another significant milestone showing Webb will deploy properly in space. This is a great achievement and an inspiring image for the entire team," said Lee Feinberg, optical telescope element manager for Webb at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

For more about this test: go.nasa.gov/33XdiEa

James Webb Space Telescope successfully unfolds its giant gold mirror in space

Dogs know when you're speaking a different language -- and talking nonsense

Fossil site discovery tells of Australia's 'origin story'

This images shows the Flame Nebula and its surroundings captured in radio waves.

Flame Nebula's interstellar clouds have been captured in stunning new images

An artist's impression of a red supergiant star in the final year of its life emitting a tumultuous cloud of gas. This suggests at least some of these stars undergo significant internal changes before going supernova.

Giant dying star explodes as scientists watch in real time — a first for astronomy

DNA can now be pulled from the very air we breathe. It could help track endangered animals

This photo taken on Dec. 14, 2020, and distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service shows, preparation to a test launch of a heavy-class carrier rocket Angara-A5 from the launch pad of site No. 35 of the State Test Cosmodrome of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation at Plesetsk launch facility in the Arkhangelsk Region of northwestern Russia. The Angara-A5 is the prospective heavy-lift rocket that is expected to enter service in the following years. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russian rocket stage makes uncontrolled entry into Earth's atmosphere

The full-scale James Webb Space Telescope model at South by Southwest in Austin.

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Webb telescope successfully unfurls its tennis court-size sunshield in space

A n infrasound station registered the blast wave from the meteor as it broke apart. NASA estimated the blast energy was equivalent to 30 tons of TNT.

Boom that shook Pittsburgh on New Year's Day was an exploding half-ton meteor, NASA says

Recent activity in space has threatened the safety of the International Space Station.

The rules of space haven't been updated in 50 years, and the UN says it's time

SPRUCE KNOB, WV - AUGUST 11: In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, in Spruce Knob, West Virginia. (Photo by Bill Ingalls/ NASA via Getty Images)

Meteor showers, eclipses, full moons: All of the reasons to look up in 2022

Look up as the Quadrantid meteor shower puts on a show in the new year

This year, NASA will launch a mission to a valuable, unexplored world

*** EXCLUSIVE - VIDEO AVAILABLE *** TERLINGUA, TX - AUGUST 14: Jason Weingart captures meteors of the Perseid Meteor Shower as they dart across the night sky, on August 14, 2016 in Terlingua, Texas.

SHOT in one of the darkest places on Earth, these breathtaking images reveal the beauty of the Perseid meteor shower in all its glory. The astronomical wonder can be seen from July 23 to August 23 and peaked on August 11, when up to 200 meteors are visible across the northern hemisphere every hour. Photographer Jason Weingart ventured to the Texas Bend in Big Bend National Park, Texas and the Grand Canyon in Arizona to capture the meteor shower while running an astrophotography workshop.

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Meteor showers, eclipses, full moons: All of the reasons to look up in 2022

Webb telescope spends '29 days on the edge' as it comes to life in space

NASA will launch mission to an unexplored world in 2022

Where there's a fact, there's a joke. Here's how TikTok creators are making people laugh through science and history

We have some of the most beautiful B-roll footage you've ever seen! Shown here, the James Webb Space Telescope primary mirror illuminated in a dark cleanroom.

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This $10 billion space telescope will reveal the secrets of the universe

Spinosaurs. Two new species of spinosaurid dinosaurs discovered on the Isle of Wight, named 'Hell heron' and 'Riverbank hunter'.

More than 500 new species, including colorful beetles and a 'hell heron,' discovered in 2021

Tusk being conserved to prevent deterioration

Fossil discovery of 5 mammoths along with Neanderthal tools reveals life in ice age

The 3,500-year-old mummy of an Egyptian king has been 'digitally unwrapped' for the first time

Teams at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida lifted the Orion spacecraft and placed it atop the Space Launch System (SLS) Moon rocket, completing assembly for the Artemis I flight test. The spacecraft, complete with its launch abort system, was secured in place Oct. 21, 2021, and teams will begin conducting a series of tests on the fully assembled Moon rocket, now standing 322 feet tall, ahead of launch. The mission, known as Artemis I, will pave the way for a future flight test with crew before NASA establishes a regular cadence of more complex missions with astronauts on and around the Moon. With Artemis, the agency will land the first woman and the first person of color on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars.

NASA's Artemis I mission to the moon has been delayed

Asian water dragons are one of the species that can reproduce without a male.

These female animals don't need a male to reproduce

The full-scale James Webb Space Telescope model at South by Southwest in Austin.

Christmas launch sends the most complex telescope into space

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully launched

How astronauts celebrate Christmas in space

The giant skull of the ichthyosaur fossil -- an extinct marine reptile -- that has been discovered in the Augusta Mountains of Nevada

Giant marine reptile skull discovery reveals new evolutionary theories

Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope onboard, is rolled out to the launch pad, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, at Europe's Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST or Webb) is a large infrared telescope with a 21.3 foot (6.5 meter) primary mirror. The observatory will study every phase of cosmic history—from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope rolls out for Christmas launch

A string of modern ostrich eggshell beads from eastern Africa.

50,000-year-old social network revealed in Africa

Perfectly preserved baby dinosaur discovered curled up inside its egg

The study reveals how prehistoric families were structured.

World's oldest family tree reconstructed from Stone Age tomb

The image of Comet Leonard on the left was taken by the European Space Agency and NASA's Solar Orbiter. The image on the right was taken by NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory-A spacecraft.

Comet Leonard has been dazzling the night sky in a pre-Christmas show

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Full Mirror Deployment a Success

In a recent test, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its primary mirror into the same configuration it will have when in space.

In order to perform the groundbreaking science expected of Webb, its primary mirror needs to be so large that it cannot fit inside any rocket available in its fully extended form. Performed in early March, this test involved commanding the spacecraft's internal systems to fully extend and latch Webb's iconic 6.5 meter (21 feet 4-inch) primary mirror.

"Deploying both wings of the telescope while part of the fully assembled observatory is another significant milestone showing Webb will deploy properly in space. This is a great achievement and an inspiring image for the entire team," said Lee Feinberg, optical telescope element manager for Webb at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

For more about this test: go.nasa.gov/33XdiEa

Delay pushes NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launch to Christmas morning

The Ursid's subtle meteor shower display graces the night sky each December.

A Christmas week meteor shower in the night sky

The fossil of the giant millipede was a fluke discovery.

Fossil of a giant millipede reveals 'the biggest bug that ever lived'

This asteroid sample could reveal our solar system's origin story

Humans just 'touched' the sun for the first time using a spacecraft

The last full moon of 2020, also known as the cold moon, rises behind the San Gabriel Mountains at sunset, as seen from the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area on December 29, 2020, in Los Angeles.

Witness the cold micromoon — the last full moon of 2021 to shine in the night sky

This JunoCam image shows two of Jupiter's large rotating storms, captured on Juno's 38th perijove pass, on Nov. 29, 2021.

Juno flyby reveals stunning new images of Jupiter, sounds of its moon Ganymede

The bed of this lake on the island of Eysturoy contains a sediment layer laid down around 500 AD that documents the first arrival of sheep, and thus humans, on the archipelago.

Ancient sheep poop reveals an unknown population on Faroe Islands before Vikings

VALLES MARINERIS, MARS - Mars' own Grand Canyon, Valles Marineris, is shown on the surface of the planet in this composite image made aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The image was taken from a video featuring high-resolution images from Arizona State University's Thermal Emission Imaging System multi-band camera on board the spacecraft. The mosaic was then colored to approximate how Mars would look to the human eye. Valles Marineris is 10 times longer, five times deeper and 20 times wider than Earth's Grand Canyon. (Photo by NASA/Arizona State University via Getty Images)

'Significant amounts of water' found in Mars' massive version of the Grand Canyon

The first true millipede has been discovered in Australia. It has 1,306 legs. Credit: Marek et al. 2021, The first true millipede—1306 legs long

The first true millipede has been discovered in Australia. It has the most legs of any living animal

This enhanced-color image of Mars' Jezero Crater was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on April 18, 2021. The foreground flat-topped hill, informally named "Kodiak," is 1.4 miles (2.2 kilometers) from the rover and 820 feet (250 meters) wide. It exposes ancient layered rocks that indicate gradual deposition of sediments in a river delta, followed by floods.
The color bands of the image have been processed to improve visual contrast and accentuate color differences.
The Mastcam-Z investigation is led and operated by Arizona State University in Tempe, working in collaboration with Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, California, on the design, fabrication, testing, and operation of the cameras, and in collaboration with the Neils Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen on the design, fabrication, and testing of the calibration targets.
A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).
Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA's Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.
JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.

Perseverance rover makes 'completely unexpected' volcanic discovery on Mars

Watch the Perseverance rover's first footage of Mars (February 2021)

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Full Mirror Deployment a Success

In a recent test, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its primary mirror into the same configuration it will have when in space.

In order to perform the groundbreaking science expected of Webb, its primary mirror needs to be so large that it cannot fit inside any rocket available in its fully extended form. Performed in early March, this test involved commanding the spacecraft's internal systems to fully extend and latch Webb's iconic 6.5 meter (21 feet 4-inch) primary mirror.

"Deploying both wings of the telescope while part of the fully assembled observatory is another significant milestone showing Webb will deploy properly in space. This is a great achievement and an inspiring image for the entire team," said Lee Feinberg, optical telescope element manager for Webb at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

For more about this test: go.nasa.gov/33XdiEa

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launch pushed to Christmas Eve

NASA's Parker Solar Probe becomes first spacecraft to 'touch' the sun

This animation portrays a comet as it approaches the inner solar system. Light from the Sun warms the comet core, an object so small it cannot be seen at this scale. Ices within the comet are vaporized by the heat, streaming out from the tiny core forming a giant halo, known as a 'coma' around it. Particles of dust, carried along with the gas, are blown out to form a tail that extends away from the Sun.

Look up to see bright Comet Leonard this month before it vanishes forever

This is a composite of view of X-rays and warm ionized gas near the galactic center. The graphic of a translucent, vertical white fan is added to show the suggested axis of a mini-jet from the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's heart. The orange colored features are of glowing hydrogen gas. One such feature, at the top tip of the jet is interpreted at a hydrogen cloud that has been hit by the outflowing jet. The jet scatters off the cloud into tendrils that flow northward. Farther down near the black hole are X-ray observations of superheated gas colored green and blue. These date are circumstantial evidence that the black hole occasionally accretes stars or gas clouds, and ejects some of the superheated material along its spin axis.

Star-gobbling burp from our Milky Way's black hole is detected by astronomers

A man watches a meteor during the Geminid meteor shower over Brimham Rocks, a collection of balancing rock formations in the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in North Yorkshire. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images)

Geminid meteor shower could bring one of the best and last showers of the year

Colossal winged reptile is the largest known flying animal ever to live on the planet

The VERTICO—Virgo Environment Traced in Carbon Monoxide—Survey observed the gas reservoirs in 51 galaxies in the nearby Virgo Cluster and found that the extreme environment in the cluster was killing galaxies by robbing them of their star-forming fuel. In this composite image, ALMA's radio wavelength observations of the VERTICO galaxies' molecular gas disks are magnified by a factor of 20. They are overlaid on the X-ray image of the hot plasma within the Virgo Cluster.

When it comes to creating stars, it's all about location

Researchers found two tracks of theropod footprints in Spain and determined how fast these creatures were running.

These meat-eating dinosaurs could sprint as fast as Usain Bolt

The archaeologists discovered a nail through the skeleton's foot.

Rare example of Roman crucifixion unearthed in UK

An extinct reptile with a massive wingspan leapt 8 feet in the air to take off

Tiny living Pac-Man robots have learned how to reproduce

IN SPACE - MAY 29: In this handout provided by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), back dropped by planet Earth the International Space Station (ISS) is seen from NASA space shuttle Endeavour after the station and shuttle began their post-undocking relative separation May 29, 2011 in space. After 20 years, 25 missions and more than 115 million miles in space, NASA space shuttle Endeavour is on the last leg of its final flight to the International Space Station before being retired and donated to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Capt. Mark E. Kelly, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' (D-AZ) husband, has lead mission STS-134 as it delivered the Express Logistics Carrier-3 (ELC-3) and the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-2) to the International Space Station. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images)

International Space Station swerves to avoid space junk, Russia says

The exoplanet GJ 367b only take about 8 hours to completely orbit its star, which means an entire year on this planet lasts a matter of hours.

A year on this exoplanet only lasts about 8 hours

The Kyhytysuka sachicarum roamed the ocean during the Cretaceous period.

A ferocious marine reptile with gnarly teeth for crushing prey was discovered in Colombia

Astronaut Tom Marshburn, STS-127 mission specialist, participates in his first spacewalk and the second overall for the crew members of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station, July 20, 2009.

NASA astronauts successfully conduct spacewalk postponed due to debris risk

Enigmatic footprints, once thought to belong to a bear, linked to unknown human ancestor

New armored dinosaur found in Chile had bizarre weaponized tail

The Pando Aspen Clone, considered the world's largest single organism, is being eaten by deer and elk.

Deer are consuming the world's largest organism, killing off its opportunity for growth

World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say

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These award-winning photos are guaranteed to make you laugh

Amber containing the germinating pine cone.

Amber captures rare plant behavior in an ancient, extinct pine cone

This is how astronauts celebrate Thanksgiving in space

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1900: Anthropology - Neanderthal man skull (Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis) from La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France.

Ancient case of disease spillover discovered in Neanderthal man who got sick butchering raw meat

The dinosaur bones of Parrosaurus missouriensis, Missouri's state dinosaur, were uncovered over four years, starting in 2017.

Missouri dig site is home to at least 4 rare dinosaurs, and there could be more

Meat-eating vulture bees have evolved special gut bacteria to feast on flesh

Illustration of NASA's DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency's (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system.

NASA will launch mission to crash into a near-Earth asteroid to try to change its motion in space

MARSEILLE - FRANCE - AUGUST 02 : A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) moving on the seabed, on august 02, 2017 in Marseille, France. The Mediterranean represents a hotspot of marine biodiversity. With only 1% of the world's oceans and seas, it is home to nearly 10% of the world's marine species. There are also hundreds of endemic species. (Photo by Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images).

Lobsters and crabs are sentient beings and shouldn't be boiled alive, UK report says

Why we're grateful for the tiny Ingenuity helicopter on Mars

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins is scheduled to fly to space for the first time as part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 mission launching to the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins will make a historic trip as the first Black woman on the space station crew

November's full moon will be the longest partial lunar eclipse in over 500 years

ANKARA,TURKEY - NOVEMBER 17: Leonids meteor streaks across the sky over Gudul district of Ankara, Turkey on November 17, 2020. (Photo by Dogukan Keskinkilic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

How to watch the Leonid meteor shower tonight

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei prepares chile peppers, which were grown during a separate food production initiative aboard the International Space Station.

Bread baking, fresh strawberries claim top spots in NASA's Deep Space Food Challenge

The city of Kathmandu, Nepal, seen at the bottom left of this Landsat 9 image, lies in a valley south of the Himalayan Mountains between Nepal and China. Glaciers, and the lakes formed by glacial meltwater, are visible in the top middle of this image.

New images show just how much our world has changed

Haddie, a rare cotton candy-colored lobster caught off the coast of Maine.

A rare 'cotton candy' lobster named Haddie was caught in Maine this week

The wing of a Rufous-capped Antthrush (Formicarius colma).

The climate crisis is messing with birds' body shapes

Collared Puffbird (Bucco capensis)—a representative of midstory species.

Birds in the Amazon rainforest are evolving with climate change

Mars rover scrapes at rock to 'look at something no one's ever seen'

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Marko Korosec/Solent News/Shutterstock (5386934k)
Taurid meteor shower
Taurid meteor shower, Brkini, Slovenia - 12 Nov 2015
The sky lights up with spectacular colours as rare meteors seen only once a year soar at 62,000mph through the air. During the annual Taurid showers, meteors are visible from Earth and can be seen producing mesmerising emerald, red and white patterns in the night-sky. In the already starry sky, one meteor leaves a long white trail as it flies through the mesosphere - a layer inside the Earth's atmosphere around 50 miles away. Another meteor can be seen soaring inside the Earth's atmosphere, creating a stunning emerald glow as it descends. This spectacular light show was taken by meteorologist Marko Korosec, 34, when he stayed up all night in the hilly terrain of Brkini, Slovenia. Mr Korosec, who lives near Brkini in Slovenia, is a keen observer of meteors and said the Taurid shower is named after their radiant point in the constellation Taurus, where they come from in the sky. He explained that the colourful meteors hit speeds of around 28 kilometres per second (62,634mph).

When and where to look to see the North Taurid meteor shower tonight

An artist impression of Earth quasi-satellite Kamo`oalewa near the Earth-Moon system. Astronomers using the Large Binocular Telescope have shown that it might be a lost fragment of the Moon.

Ferris wheel-size asteroid could be a lost piece of the moon

This artist's impression shows a compact black hole 11 times as massive as the Sun and the five-solar-mass star orbiting it. The two objects are located in NGC 1850, a cluster of thousands of stars roughly 160 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a Milky Way neighbour. The distortion of the star's shape is due to the strong gravitational force exerted by the black hole. Not only does the black hole's gravitational force distort the shape of the star, but it also influences its orbit. By looking at these subtle orbital effects, a team of astronomers were able to infer the presence of the black hole, making it the first small black hole outside of our galaxy to be found this way. For this discovery, the team used the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument at ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile.

Hidden black hole discovered in our neighboring galaxy

A new dinosaur species was discovered decades after its bones were excavated

Giant murder hornets attack a bee hive in Vietnam.

Honeybees make a chilling warning noise when attacked by hive-destroying murder hornets

Illustration of Artemis astronauts on the Moon.

NASA says moon landing goal pushed to 2025 due to Blue Origin litigation, other factors

Two black holes are entwined in a gravitational tango in this artist's conception. Supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies are thought to form through the merging of smaller, yet still massive black holes, such as the ones depicted here.

Record-breaking 'tsunami' of gravitational waves detected

The penis worm Eximipriapulus inhabiting a hyolith shell.

Penis worms were the hermit crabs of their time

Reconstruction of the South American giant ground sloth Mylodon darwinii feeding on the carcass of the hoofed native herbivore Macrauchenia. These extinct mammals roamed the Pleistocene landscape of Patagonia and other parts of high and mid-latitude South America, like this reconstructed scene from about 12,000 years ago in front of the famous Mylodon Cave (Cueva del Milodón) in southern Chile.

This ancient sloth ate meat, unlike its plant-eating relatives

An artist's concept image of the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f.

The search for another Earth across the galaxy heats up

Scientists collect a 300 million-year-old fossil skeleton at Canyonlands National Park.

300 million-year-old fossil skeleton in Utah could be the first of its kind

A reconstruction of the skull of Leti.

First ancient fossil of Homo naledi child found in the Cradle of Humankind

This artist's impression shows NGP--190387, a star-forming, dusty galaxy that is so far away its light has taken over 12 billion years to reach us. ALMA observations have revealed the presence of fluorine in the gas clouds of NGP--190387. To date, this is the most distant detection of the element in a star-forming galaxy, one that we see as it was only 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang — about 10% of the current age of the Universe. The discovery sheds a new light on how stars forge fluorine, suggesting short-lived stars known as Wolf--Rayet are its most likely birthplace.

Element found in our teeth detected for the first time in galaxy 12 billion light-years away

A meteor shoots across the sky during the Taurid meteor shower in 2015.

Fireballs may be visible as meteor shower peaks tonight

Identifying 'habitable worlds' is a top priority for astronomers in the decade ahead

New research finds that the dark silicate glass strewn across a vast swath of the Atacama Desert was created by an exploding comet around 12,000 years ago.

An ancient fireball turned miles of the world's driest desert into glass

Baby seals share a rare vocal ability with humans, study finds

iss066e006170 (October 20, 2021) -- A view of a green chile pepper being grown as part of the Plant Habitat-04 investigation aboard the International Space Station. This is the first time chile peppers are being grown aboard the orbiting laboratory, and are one of the most complex plant experiments on the station to date because of the long germination and growing times. The pepper seeds were activated on July 12. 2021 and will grow for about four months, during which time they will be harvested twice. Astronauts will sample some of the peppers and return the rest to Earth for scientific analysis.

Astronauts have a taco taste test using first chile peppers grown in space

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Scarier than a ghost? Black holes are regions in space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape

china mummies

Mummies found buried in boats in a China desert have unexpected origins

Small hermit crab on the tropical island sand. Copy space,close up; Hermit crab on tropical beach

Discarded tires in the oceans are trapping hermit crabs, with no way out

The latest data from the Juno space probe revealed surprising findings about our solar system's biggest planet.

NASA's Juno spacecraft flew over Jupiter's Great Red Spot twice. This is what it found out

Aerial view of the Xiaohe cemetery.

DNA reveals unexpected origins of enigmatic mummies buried in a Chinese desert

The rare 'penis plant' just bloomed for the first time in over two decades

Sitting Bull and his great grandson Ernie Lapointe.

Sitting Bull's great-grandson identified using new DNA technique

A composite image of M51 with X-rays from Chandra and optical light from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope contains a box that marks the location of the possible planet candidate.

(Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/R. DiStefano, et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/Grendler; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss.)

NASA discovers first possible planet outside our galaxy

Life reconstruction of the the dicynodont Dicynodon. Aside from the tusks in the upper jaw, most dicynodonts possessed a turtle-like beak that they used to chew their food.

Why do only mammals have tusks? Study traces their surprising origins

Indri indri lemurs can belt out notes in multiple rhythms.

These lemurs could win a Grammy for their rhythmic singing abilities

Scientists discover trace of ancient life in a 2.5 billion-year-old ruby

Reconstructed Viking-Age building adjacent to the site of L'Anse aux Meadows.

Vikings explored the Americas long before Christopher Columbus

Horses running in the steppes of Inner Mongolia, China, July 2019.

The moment domesticated horses changed the course of human history is now revealed

The Prosauropod is an herbivorous dinosaur who lived during the Triassic age.

Dinosaur fossil from a supposed huge carnivore actually belongs to something else

An image of a tranquilized tuskless female elephant in Gorongosa National Park taken while genetic samples were collected in 2018.

Some elephants are evolving to have no tusks as a response to brutal poaching

Astronomers recently witnessed supernova SN 2020fqv explode inside the interacting Butterfly galaxies, located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. Researchers quickly trained NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on the aftermath. Along with other space- and ground-based telescopes, Hubble delivered a ringside seat to the first moments of the ill-fated star's demise, giving a comprehensive view of a supernova in the very earliest stage of exploding. Hubble probed the material very close to the supernova that was ejected by the star in the last year of its life. These observations allowed researchers to understand what was happening to the star just before it died, and may provide astronomers with an early warning system for other stars on the brink of death.

Explosive star death witnessed by Hubble could help develop an early warning system

Cretapsara athanata: The first crab in amber from the dinosaur era.

Tiny crab preserved in 100-million-year-old amber lived among dinosaurs

Reconstructed Viking-Age building adjacent to the site of L'Anse aux Meadows.

Vikings were in the Americas exactly a thousand years ago

This illustration shows the Lucy spacecraft passing one of the Trojan Asteroids near Jupiter.

NASA's Lucy mission struggles with solar array issue after launching to space

The hunter's moon, which was also a blue moon last year, rose behind lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in New York City on October 31, 2020 as seen from Greenbrook Township, New Jersey.

October night skies bring full moon and meteor shower

This illustration shows the top-down view of what the Milky Way and its spiral arms would look like if we could go outside our galaxy and look at it.

New NASA telescope will observe star birth and death in the Milky Way's evolution

A ray gun-like device helps scientists see plants in a different light

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard is seen in this 2 minute and 30 second exposure photograph as it launches from Space Launch Complex 41, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Lucy will be the first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids. Like the mission's namesake -- the fossilized human ancestor, "Lucy," whose skeleton provided unique insight into humanity's evolution -- Lucy will revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA's Lucy mission carries Amanda Gorman poem, Beatles lyrics to space

jsc2021e043285 (Aug. 26, 2021) --- Soyuz MS-19 crew members (from left) Yulia Peresild, Anton Shkaplerov and Klim Shipenko pose for a portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia. Shkaplerov is a Roscosmos cosmonaut and the Soyuz Commander who will be visiting the International Space Station for the fourth time. Peresild and Shipenko are spaceflight participants and first-time space flyers representing Russia.

Russian crew wraps trailblazing movie in space, safely returns to Earth

In this photo released by NASA, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41, on Oct. 16, 2021, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

NASA's Lucy mission has launched to explore never-before-seen asteroids

Planets orbiting from a sufficient distance can continue to exist after their star dies. New evidence gathered from a solar system like our own suggests that Jupiter and Saturn might survive the Sun's red giant phase—when it burns the last of its nuclear fuel and collapses some 5 billion years from now. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko

This dead star offers a glimpse of our solar system's eventual fate

JIUQUAN, CHINA - OCTOBER 15: The launchpad for the Shenzhou-13 is seen on October 15, 2021 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, China. The three member crew of the Shenzhou-13 spacecraft will be carried by a Long March-2F rocket, set to launch to the core module of the Tianhe space station China is building, from the Gobi Desert in the early hours on October 16 and will stay for six months, the standard for all future missions. It is the second crewed launch this year. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

China's historic crewed mission arrives at new space station

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard is seen as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Lucy will be the first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids. Like the mission's namesake -- the fossilized human ancestor, "Lucy," whose skeleton provided unique insight into humanity's evolution -- Lucy will revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA's Lucy mission is ready to launch and explore never-before-seen asteroids

Leprosy seen in wild chimpanzees for the first time

FAST catches a real pulse from FRB 121102.

Over a thousand cosmic explosions traced to mysterious repeating fast radio burst