NASA astronaut and Pittsburgh area native Mike Fincke revealed Wednesday he was the one who needed medical attention that required SpaceX Crew-11’s early return in January.
In a statement posted to NASA’s website, Fincke said…
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Humans Sketched Oddly Precise Geometric Patterns Onto Ostrich Eggs 60,000 Years Ago
Ostrich eggs are huge. Big enough, in fact, for ancient humans to use them as primitive writing surfaces for showcasing their mathematical prowess, according to a new study.
The paper, published recently in PLOS One, describes an…
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Antarctica just saw the fastest glacier collapse ever recorded
A glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula underwent the most rapid retreat seen in modern times. In only two months, nearly half of Hektoria Glacier broke apart and disappeared.
New research led by the University of Colorado Boulder and…
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Sorry, SpaceX: It’s Getting Too Crowded Up There – The New York Times
- Sorry, SpaceX: It’s Getting Too Crowded Up There The New York Times
- SpaceX’s 1 million satellites could avoid environmental checks New Scientist
- We’re putting more stuff into space than ever. Here’s what’s up there. MIT Technology Review
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'Revolutionary': Vera C. Rubin Observatory found 800,000 objects of interest in a single night – Live Science
- ‘Revolutionary’: Vera C. Rubin Observatory found 800,000 objects of interest in a single night Live Science
- Rubin Observatory has started paging astronomers 800,000 times a night Scientific American
- 20 billion galaxies: new survey of the sky will…
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‘Revolutionary’: Vera C. Rubin Observatory found 800,000 objects of interest in a single night
The newly commissioned Vera C. Rubin Observatory has issued 800,000 astronomy alerts in just one night — a staggering number of nightly discoveries that is expected to grow nearly tenfold by the end of this year.
The telescope, which scans the…
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The astronaut whose illness forced an early return from the ISS was Mike Fincke
NASA recently to the International Space Station (ISS) a month early, citing a medical issue with one of the astronauts. The space agency just revealed that the . This was the first medical evacuation in the history of the ISS.
NASA wrote a…
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First-Ever Plesiosaur Fossil Found in Algeria, A Major Piece to the Cretaceous Puzzle
In northeastern Algeria, a significant fossil discovery is offering new insights into ancient marine life. For years, scientists have studied the Cretaceous period, a time when the oceans were filled with diverse marine reptiles. However,…
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ULA’s Latest Vulcan Mishap Just Blew Up the Pentagon’s 2026 Launch Schedule
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket successfully delivered two national security satellites to orbit earlier this month but suffered an anomaly that caused one of the boosters to emit an unusual plume of debris….
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Mosquitoes may have evolved a taste for human blood thanks to Homo erectus
Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on the planet, killing hundreds of thousands of people every year by transmitting malaria, dengue fever and a host of other deadly diseases. Understanding how the insects first got the taste for human blood has…
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