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Dr. Moiya McTier/Moiya McTier official websiteThis young astronomer studied astrophysics and folklore and now researches places in our galaxy where livable planets are most likely to form. She’s as rational as the next astrophysicist but acknowledges an early enthusiasm: “I spent way too long, countless hours as a child, trying to move things with my mind, or control fire or the weather.” The making of a scientist. -
Pixabay/https://pixabay.com/illustrations/venus-planet-eclipse-space-stars-5842522/At 8 p.m. on Sunday, twilight deepens and you’ll see Venus, the brightest “star” in the whole sky, and our jumping-off point for a celestial adventure.
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Fresh off the first powered flight on another world, NASA's Mars 2020 mission has managed another key first that could pave the way for future astronauts. -
The tiny helicopter took off and hovered briefly — the first such flight on another planet. The Perseverance rover kept tabs on the mission from a viewing point about 60 yards away.
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An international team has put human cells into monkey embryos in hopes of finding new ways to produce organs for transplantation. But some ethicists still worry about how such research could go wrong.
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Harold McGee writes about the science of food and cooking. He is the author of the award-winning classic "On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the…
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NASA is counting down to what should be the final major test of the massive rocket it is building to put the first woman and the next man on the moon.
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NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover is scheduled to land on Mars shortly before 4 p.m. Eastern Time today. Back in July the rover blasted off from Cape…
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Perseverance landed safely on the red planet on Thursday, immediately getting to work with a first photo of the rover's "forever home."
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The UAE probe arrives at Mars on Tuesday, Feb 9. Its purpose is to both study the weather on Mars as well as inspire the next generation of that country's scientists and engineers.
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Mountains on Pluto look strikingly similar to white-capped peaks on Earth, but these cold, alien mountains got whitened in a completely different way.
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With catastrophic global warming already baked into the climate system, today's children face a future entirely unlike that of their parents. How can we…
