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Forbidden black holes and ancient stars hide in these 'tiny red dots' (image) (www.space.com)

time for big bang revision

NASA selects SpaceX to build deorbit vehicle for International Space Station (www.space.com)

NASA has selected SpaceX to develop a vehicle that will bring the International Space Station to a fiery end when the time comes....

Euclid space telescope finds 1.5 trillion orphan stars wandering the Perseus cluster (images) (www.space.com)

TIL of research into genetically engineering humans for space and living on other planets. (www.space.com)

One method is epigenome engineering and would target genes advantageous for space. Another method is to combine the DNA of other species (i.e. tardigrades) with human cells to make humans better fit for space....

Are stars vanishing into their own black holes? A bizarre binary system says 'yes' (www.space.com)

not long

Blue Origin launches 1st crewed spaceflight since August 2022 (video) (www.space.com)

The mission, known as NS-25, sent six people on a brief trip to suborbital space today (May 19)....

James Webb Space Telescope sees Orion Nebula in a stunning new light (images) (www.space.com)

James Webb Space Telescope chief scientist Jane Rigby receives highest US civilian award (www.space.com)

China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle (www.space.com)

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released a video of its concept for a lunar base to be developed across the next couple of decades....

Hubble telescope celebrates 34th anniversary with an iridescent Dumbbell Nebula (image) (www.space.com)

Debris from burning satellites could be affecting Earth's magnetic field | Space (www.space.com)

Cannibal stars at the heart of the Milky Way stay young in a gruesome way (www.space.com)

hate when authors assign human behaviors to natural phenomena. black holes don’t experience hunger. let alone kinship to food. they should assign natural behaviors to humans more often. downvoting

NASA is holding a total eclipse 2024 briefing today. Here's how to watch it live (www.space.com)

On April 8, a total solar eclipse will sweep across North America. The path of totality — a 115-mile (185-kilometer) wide route where https://www.space.com/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html will cover 100% of https://www.space.com/58-the-sun-formation-facts-and-characteristics.html’s disk — stretches...

New NASA astronauts celebrate moon missions, private space stations as they get ready for liftoff (exclusive) (www.space.com)

pretty good story about an elite group. wish them luck

Dark energy remains a mystery. Maybe AI can help crack the code (www.space.com)

‘70% unknown’ gives me hope

Intuitive Machines lands on moon in nail-biting descent of private Odysseus lander, a 1st for US since 1972 (www.space.com)

Powerful twin solar flares erupt from sun as cell phone outages spike across US (video) (www.space.com)

How the Large Hadron Collider's successor will hunt for the dark universe (www.space.com)

moon Mimas may have an ocean scientists never believed could exist (www.space.com)

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1st look at asteroid Bennu samples suggests space rock may even be 'a fragment of an ancient ocean world' (www.space.com)

Mystery of Siberia's giant exploding craters may finally be solved (www.space.com)

Giant exploding craters only known to exist on Russia’s permafrost-covered Yamal and Gydan peninsulas may result from a specific set of conditions not found elsewhere in the Arctic.

NASA's Perseverance rover confirms presence of ancient lake on Mars and it may hold clues to past life (www.space.com)

Evidence of ancient lake sediments at the base of Mars’ Jezero crater offer new hope for finding traces of life in samples collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover....

We've been 'close' to achieving fusion power for 50 years. When will it actually happen? (www.space.com)

Nuclear fusion power was supposed to be a dream come true. As soon as we discovered that you could smash little atoms together to make bigger atoms and release a small amount of energy in the process, scientists around the world realized the implications of this new bit of physics knowledge. Some wanted to turn it into weapons,...