The James Webb Space Telescope has provided a detailed look at…
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Artemis II astronauts swung by the moon, broke an Apollo record, and saw an eclipse : NPR
Artemis II commander and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman looks out one of the Orion spacecraft’s main cabin windows at the moon…
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‘This is really big stuff.’ Trump hails NASA Artemis 2 astronauts after historic moon flyby feat
HOUSTON — President Donald Trump on Monday hailed the courage and grit of NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts after their historic flyby around the moon, a feat that made them the farthest-traveled humans of all time.
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Astronomers just found the most pristine star of all-time
Long ago, far beyond our deepest views of the cosmos, star formed in the Universe for the very first time. It’s not a complete surprise that we haven’t spotted them yet; made almost entirely of hydrogen and helium alone, they…
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Astronauts head for home after travelling further from Earth than anyone before
What the Artemis astronauts said after regaining communication with Earthpublished at 05:23 BST
There was much anticipation during the 40 minutes when Orion was not able to contact Earth.
After the Artemis crew returned from the far…
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Earth’s most powerful ocean current didn’t form the way we thought
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current carries more than 100 times the total flow of all the world’s rivers combined. It circles Antarctica without being blocked by land, making it one of the most important drivers of the global climate system. New…
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Earth’s most powerful ocean current didn’t form the way we thought
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current carries more than 100 times the total flow of all the world’s rivers combined. It circles Antarctica without being blocked by land, making it one of the most important drivers of the global climate system. New…
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Scientists found a “lost world” of animals that shouldn’t exist yet
A newly identified fossil site in southwest China is changing scientists’ understanding of how complex animal life first developed on Earth. The discovery shows that many major animal groups were already present before the Cambrian Period began….
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Scientists found a “lost world” of animals that shouldn’t exist yet
A newly identified fossil site in southwest China is changing scientists’ understanding of how complex animal life first developed on Earth. The discovery shows that many major animal groups were already present before the Cambrian Period began….
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Scientists discover the “Goldilocks” secret behind life on Earth
Life cannot begin on a planet unless certain chemical elements are available in large enough amounts. Two of the most important are phosphorus and nitrogen. Phosphorus helps build DNA and RNA, which store and pass along genetic information, and…
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