OSIRIS REx Asteroid Sample Return lid opening at Building 31 Astromaterials Curation Facility. Photo Date: September 26, 2023. Location: Bldg. 31 - OSIRIS REx Thin Section Lab.
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Pleasant surprise greets scientists opening asteroid sample dropped from space
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Nobel Prize awarded for discovery of quantum dots that changed everything from TV displays to cancer imaging
TOPSHOT - Audience members take photos of a screen showing a video about China's Chang'e-5 moon probe at an event announcing details of international access to lunar samples collected by the probe, in Beijing on January 18, 2021. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)
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China’s next moon mission aims to do what no country has ever done. Its space ambitions don’t end there
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Mariano Montella/Pacific Press/Shutterstock (14135128c) Solfatara (Italian: Solfatara di Pozzuoli) is a shallow volcanic crater at Pozzuoli, near Naples, part of the Phlegraean Fields (Italian: Campi Flegrei) volcanic area. It is a dormant volcano, which still emits jets of steam with sulfurous fumes. The name comes from the Latin, Sulpha terra, "land of sulfur", or "sulfur earth". It was formed around 4000 years ago and last erupted in 1198 with what was probably a phreatic eruption - an explosive steam-driven eruption caused when groundwater interacts with magma. The crater floor was a popular tourist attraction until 2017, as it has many fumaroles and mud pools. The area is well known for its bradyseism. The vapors had been used for medical purposes since Roman times. This volcano is where the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus was first isolated. The archaeon is named for the volcano, as most species of the genus Sulfolobus are named for the area where they are first isolated. Solfatara di Pozzuoli, Italy - 02 Oct 2023
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Second earthquake in a week hits near Naples as fears of volcanic eruption grow
The moon slides across the sun, showing a blazing halo of light, during an annular eclipse at a waterfront park in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Monday, May 21, 2012. Millions of Asians watched as a rare "ring of fire" eclipse crossed their skies early Monday. The annular eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun leaving only a golden ring around its edges, was visible to wide areas across the continent. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
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How to see the last ‘ring of fire’ eclipse until 2046
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier shared this year's physics prize.
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Nobel Prize in physics won by trio who created rapid flashes of light to ‘capture the shortest of moments’
An employee of BioNTech works inside a laboratory at their COVID-19 vaccine production facility as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Marburg, Germany, March 27, 2021. Picture taken March 27, 2021. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
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mRNA vaccines: 5 things to know
A Dish Network satellite dish on the roof of a home in Crockett, California, US, on Monday, July 31, 2023. Dish Network Corp. is scheduled to release earnings figures on August 3. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Space debris investigation results in fine and an ‘admission of liability’ by satellite TV company
The scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work on the development of mRNA vaccines.
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Nobel Prize in medicine won by two scientists for ‘groundbreaking findings’ on mRNA Covid-19 vaccines
Nobel Prize medals are pictured at the end of the production on October 29, 2019 in Eskilstuna, Sweden. - The Nobel Prize awards ceremonies will take place on December 10, the anniversary of the death of the founder of the prize, Swedish industrialist and philanthropist Alfred Nobel. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)
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The problem with Nobel’s ‘rule of three’
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NASA’s next stop: An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos
Neolithic organic-based artifacts. (A) Mallet 475 (Beta-627338: 5660 ± 30 BP). (B) Sandal 603 (Beta-627330: 5630 ± 30 BP). (C) Sandal 611 (Beta-627331: 5640 ± 30 BP).
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These 6,000-year-old sandals found in a Spanish cave are Europe’s oldest shoes
The full moon, a supermoon also known as the "Harvest Moon", rises above Macquarie Lighthouse and the Sydney Opera House in Sydney on September 29, 2023. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP) (Photo by DAVID GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)
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September’s full harvest moon is the last supermoon of the year
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Thomas Dressler/imageBROKER/Shutterstock (5512321a) A vehicle of the balloon ground crew crosses a sandy plain with so-called Fairy Circles at the edge of the Namib Desert, photographed from a hot-air balloon, NamibRand Nature Reserve, Namibia VARIOUS
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Mysterious ‘fairy circles’ identified at hundreds of sites worldwide, new study says
For as long as humans have gazed into the night sky, we have wondered about life beyond the Earth. Scientists now know that several places in our solar system might have conditions suitable for life. One of these is Jupiter's moon Europa, a fascinating world with a salty, subsurface ocean of liquid water—possibly twice as much as in all of Earth's oceans combined. However, scientists had not confirmed if Europa's ocean contained biologically essential chemicals, particularly carbon, the universal building block for life as we know it. Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found carbon on Europa's surface, which likely originated in this ocean. The discovery signals a potentially habitable environment in the ocean of Europa.
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Webb spots a building block of life on Jupiter’s moon Europa
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Newly discovered pangolin species could aid in fight against extinction
Expedition 69 NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is helped out of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft just minutes after he Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. The trio are returning to Earth after logging 371 days in space as members of Expeditions 68-69 aboard the International Space Station. For Rubio, his mission is the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut in history. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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NASA astronaut Frank Rubio returns from record-setting mission in space
Expedition 69 NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is helped out of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft just minutes after he Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. The trio are returning to Earth after logging 371 days in space as members of Expeditions 68-69 aboard the International Space Station. For Rubio, his mission is the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut in history. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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The electric blue tarantula is a newly discovered species found in southern Thailand.
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Electric blue tarantula species discovered in Thailand
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO - APRIL 05: Bob Smith, CEO of Blue Origin speaks during a Q&A on the launch of Project Kuiper Satellite Constellation on April 05, 2022 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Photo by Tom Cooper/Getty Images for Amazon)
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Longtime Amazon executive to take over Jeff Bezos’ rocket company
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Asteroid named for Egyptian god of chaos and darkness set for spacecraft flyby
The Queen guitarist and astrophysicist was part of a NASA team bringing an asteroid sample back to Earth.
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Queen’s Brian May helped NASA return its first asteroid sample
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Surprising jellyfish finding challenges what’s known about learning and memory
A training model of the sample return capsule is seen is seen during a drop test in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and will return to Earth on September 24th, landing under parachute at the Utah Test and Training Range. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)
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A long-awaited sample from a near-Earth asteroid is about to land in the US
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Astrophysicist explains why NASA milestone is ‘incredible’
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission delivers a sample from the asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sunday.
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A long-awaited asteroid sample has landed in the US
The Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range is seen, Monday, July 17, 2023, as recovery teams tour the projected landing ellipse in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and will return to Earth on September 24th, landing under parachute at the Utah Test and Training Range. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)
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An asteroid sample is about to land on Earth. Here’s what to expect
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission delivers a sample from the asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sunday.
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Long-awaited asteroid sample lands in Utah
Michael Pena stars in A Million Miles Away
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NASA rejected him 11 times before making him an astronaut. Now his life story is a movie
A training model of the sample return capsule is seen is seen during a drop test in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and will return to Earth on September 24th, landing under parachute at the Utah Test and Training Range. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)
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A 7-year journey to deliver an asteroid sample to Earth will soon end in Utah
The size of the shoe, which is leather, roughly corresponds to EU 30 (US 12).
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Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old child’s shoe with laces intact