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Four astronauts blasted off on a journey to the Moon on Wednesday. Here are some cool launch-day details you may not have picked up on.
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"we have a beautiful moon rise, we're headed right at it."
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Artemis 2's toilet was out of commission for the mission's first six hours but was successfully fixed — to the relief of the crew.
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Combining single-cell parallel profiling of genome conformation, histone modifications, chromatin accessibility and gene expression reveals dynamics and intranuclear spatial clustering of epigenome profiles, enabling sophisticated analysis of the regulatory l…
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Sperm gets lost in space; raccoons solve puzzles; the physics of folding a crepe; and more.
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Hidden within seemingly ordinary rocks on Mars, new evidence suggests that rain may have shaped conditions scientists are still struggling to fully understand.
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The winning entries in the 2025 Global Physics Photowalk contest showcase the beauty of toil and discovery.
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A new analysis of archival Hubble Space Telescope photos reveals that a peculiar comet slowed its spin before fully reversing its rotational direction during a flyby of Earth in 2017.
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The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking new images of the W51 star-forming region, revealing previously hidden stars and offering fresh insights into star formation.
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Comet MAPS is on the verge of an unprecedented encounter with the Sun, and its survival could lead to a once-in-a-lifetime visual spectacle.
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Historical observations from an observatory in Germany have now independently verified evidence for brief, mysterious flashes of light in the night sky, first picked up by an American astronomical survey in the 1950s. Through fresh analysis of a German survey…
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A SpaceX Starlink spacecraft seen prior to breaking up in orbit by a satellite.
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