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China’s Shenzhou 16 Astronauts Land Safely after 5 months aboard Tiangong Space Station

The three astronauts of China’s Shenzhou 16 mission returned to Earth on Monday (Oct. 30) after completing a five-month stint aboard the country’s space station. Astronauts Jing Haipeng (the mission’s commander), Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao touched down in their Shenzhou 16 spacecraft return capsule at the Dongfeng landing site Monday around 8:10 p.m. EDT […]

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Scientists created AI that could Detect Alien Life

Scientists have created an artificial intelligence (AI) program that can detect alien life in physical samples — though they aren’t sure exactly how it works. The new machine-learning algorithm — trained using living cells, fossils, meteorites and lab-made chemicals — can distinguish between samples of biological and nonbiological origin 90% of the time, according to

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Groundbreaking Laser Communications Experiment Flying to ISS on SpaceX Cargo Mission on Nov. 5

Early next month, SpaceX will send a clutch of science experiments to the space station investigating a range of topics, from high-speed laser communications to rolling atmospheric waves on Earth. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the uncrewed Dragon spacecraft, is scheduled to launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than Nov. 5,

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What time is the Full Hunter’s Moon lunar eclipse on Oct. 28?

The Full Hunter’s Moon of October will see the Earth’s shadow pass across its face this weekend, creating a partial lunar eclipse. The lunar eclipse will be fully visible from Africa, Europe, Asia and parts of Western Australia. The eastern tip of South America will get a small glimpse of the eclipse at moonrise, but

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NASA wants to fly this Nuclear Dragonfly Drone on Saturn’s Moon Titan.

Testing is now underway on NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft, a nuclear-powered, car-sized aerial drone that will look for potential precursors to life on Saturn’s moon, Titan. But before Dragonfly can take to the sky, NASA has to make sure it can withstand the moon’s unique environment. Dragonfly’s main goal is to study the complex chemistry on

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Curiosity Rover Discovers New Evidence Mars once had ‘Right Conditions’ for Life

Thanks to a combination of images from NASA’s Curiosity rover, scans of sedimentary rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico on Earth and computer simulations, geologists have identified the ancient, eroded remnants of rivers in a number of craters on Mars. A team of researchers examining data collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover at Gale crater, a

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