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Russia sends resupply mission to International Space Station
A Russian Progress cargo spacecraft is shown docking to the International Space Station in 2019. A new resupply ship by Russia launched toward the…
Korean food scientists grow beef inside of rice grains
Korean scientists are combining meat and rice by growing animal muscle and fat cells inside rice grains. Photo courtesy of Yonsei University…
SpaceX launches private lunar lander on eight-day journey to the moon
SpaceX early Thursday launched a lunar lander on an eight-day mission to the moon. If successful, it will be the first lunar landing in more than…
NASA telescopes capture extreme radio events in space
In an ejection that would have caused its rotation to slow, an exploded star -- or magnetar -- is shown losing material into space in this…
U.S. missile-defense satellites headed for low-Earth orbit
1 of 5 | A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with six satellites aboard on the USSF-124 mission from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape…
Apes engage in playful teasing, study shows
Orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas all engage in different forms of playful teasing, researchers report in the journal Proceedings of…
NASA engineers trying to fix stuck dust cover on Perseverance Mars rover camera
NASA’s Perseverance puts its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called “Skinner Ridge” in a set of images captured in June and July 2022…
Second Japanese H3 launch test scrubbed over weather concerns
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency has delayed the second test launch of its H3 launch vehicle after a previous test (pictured in 2023)…
In search for life elsewhere in universe, researchers create new way to look for signals
Earth-size exoplanets such as Kepler 1649c (pictured in a NASA illustration, showing the planet's imagined surface) are intriguing in the search…
Report: 20% of U.N.-protected migratory species facing extinction
Sharks were among 44% of migratory species that signatories to a United Nations treaty are pledged to protect that are in decline or in danger of…