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NASA’s Artemis program aims to bring humans back to the Moon, with the goal of staying there for good in the interest of pursuing additional science and exploration missions, including to Mars. But how will the agency actually make it possible for people to remain on the Moon for longer-term science missions? NASA has provided…

Home News This rare example of "frozen behavior" in the fossil record preserves two mating, long-legged flies in honey-colored amber from Victoria, Australia. (Image: © Jeffrey Stilwell) About 41 million years ago, two long-legged flies had just begun an amorous tryst when they were caught fast in sticky sap, which eventually hardened around their joined…

SN3 is dead to me — "We will see what data review says in the morning." Eric Berger - Apr 3, 2020 12:18 pm UTC SN3 cryo test failure.This week, SpaceX workers in South Texas loaded the third full-scale Starship prototype—SN3—onto a test stand ​at the company's Boca Chica launch site. On Wednesday night, they…

Space this way — "We intend to the maximum extent possible to stay on track." Eric Berger - Apr 3, 2020 11:00 am UTC Enlarge / The mighty Delta IV Heavy rocket takes to the skies.Welcome to Edition 2.38 of the Rocket Report! If you're reading this, you survived the first quarter of 2020. What…

Photons always propagate at the speed of light and obey the same rules of nature, regardless of... [+] their energy. If certain models of quantum gravity or string theory are correct, photons above a certain energy threshold should decay as they propagate through the Universe. The HAWC collaboration just tested this, and found that no…

NASA tests giant 21-foot mirror on James Webb telescope for the first time in simulated zero-gravity as it tries to find a successor to the HubbleNASA tested the giant mirror attached to its nascent James Webb telescopeIt simulated the zero-gravity conditions it will encounter in spaceThe craft, however, will still likely not launch until July…

Social distancing is important in the grocery store, but so is how you shop. Shara Tibken/CNET For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. Even though you spend most of your day indoors while quarantined at home, chances are you still leave the house to run errands and get…

The spring moon rising over Utah's Wasatch Mountains. NASA/Bill Dunford The evening of April 7 and early morning hours of April 8 will be dominated by what should be the biggest and brightest supermoon of the year. And because it's the first full moon of the northern spring, it's also traditionally known as the "pink…

CARLY CASSELLA 3 APRIL 2020 The more we learn about our evolutionary history, the more it seems like early humans and Neanderthals just couldn't keep their hands off one another.A new study has once again found evidence that a long, long time ago, our ancestors made a habit of intermingling with Neanderthals - not once,…

(CNN)Once-crowded city streets are now empty. Highway traffic has slowed to a minimum. And fewer and fewer people can be found milling about outside.Global containment measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus have seemingly made the world much quieter. Scientists are noticing it, too.Around the world, seismologists are observing a lot less ambient seismic…

Mating flies found in 41-million-year-old amber. Image: Jeffrey StilwellA pair of long-legged flies met a Romeo-and-Juliet ending some 41 million years ago, when a falling drop of tree resin ruined their tender moment. On the bright side, their disrupted act of fornication was preserved for all eternity in this pornographic piece of amber.Prehistoric spiders, ants,…