Four space explorers will launch with SpaceX next week on a polar orbital mission that could unlock a new area in space for future spaceflights.
The four-person mission, known as Fram2, will launch on a four-day mission to…
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What will happen during the partial solar eclipse of March 2025?
What a difference a year makes!
Just a year ago, countless millions across North America were anxiously awaiting the “great North American total eclipse of the sun” on April 8. Now, less than a year later, on Saturday, March 29, another eclipse…
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Gaia to Shut Down After More Than a Decade of Mapping the Milky Way
From ancient star streams to the innards of white dwarfs, the Gaia space telescope has seen it all.
On Thursday, mission specialists at the European Space Agency will send Gaia, which is low on fuel, into orbit around the sun, and switch it off…
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NASA Abandons Pledge to Put Women, Astronauts of Color on the Moon
Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news regarding law and policy changes that impact science and scientists today.
NASA has dropped its commitment to land the first woman,…
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US collider to recreate 14-billion-year-old Big Bang matter with gold
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have entered the final year of experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) – a world-class particle accelerator and one of the only two…
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SpaceX Successfully Launches Secret US Spy Satellite for NRO
On March 24, 2025, SpaceX marked a significant milestone by launching a classified spy satellite for the United States on the 19th anniversary of its first-ever liftoff. At 1:48 p.m. EDT, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space…
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A Venus flytrap wasp? Scientists uncover an ancient insect preserved in amber that snatched its prey
NEW YORK (AP) — An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, scientists reported Wednesday.
The parasitic wasp’s abdomen boasts a…
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Fluorescent Rocks in Wind Cave National Park May Show How Life Could Exist on One of Jupiter’s Moons
One of Sebree’s students, Jacqueline Heggen, showing off glowing formations within Wind Cave – credit Joshua Sebree via SWNS Fluorescent chambers inside South Dakota’s Wind Cave has given scientists a pathway into theorizing how…
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NASA Planning Another Test Flight by Boeing’s Starliner
Despite a disastrous test launch that stranded two astronauts on board the International Space Station and caused it immense public embarrassment, Boeing hasn’t given up on its Starliner spacecraft just yet.
As SpaceNews reports, NASA commercial…
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