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Navy captains don’t like abandoning ship—but with Starliner, the ship left them - Ars Technica

"As the commander or pilot of your spacecraft, you don’t want to see it go off without you."

Stranded astronauts to vote in 2024 election from space while awaiting ride home - Fox Weather

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams provided insight Friday on how their lives will be alerted during the next several months in space, including casting a ballot in the November election.

Deep-sea creature — with ‘oar-like’ legs — seen eating odd meal miles below surface - Miami Herald

A species of deep-sea isopod was seen nearly 4 miles deep eating a type of algae that only grows on the surface but had fallen in Atlantic

International Observe the Moon Night 2024 - NASA Goddard

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SpaceX Super Heavy rocket gets supersonic wind tunnel test for NASA's Artemis moon missions (photos) - Space.com

A model of SpaceX's Starship Super Heavy rocket that will launch future Artemis missions to the moon has passed wind tunnel testing, marking another milestone in its development.

Asteroid 2024 PT5 Is Set To Be A Mini-Moon Of Earth – But Just For Two Months - IFLScience

In a couple of weeks, Earth will have a mini-moon for 56.6 days.

Evidence of “snowball Earth” found in ancient rocks - Ars Technica

An outcrop in Scotland has material from when the Earth went into a deep freeze.

NASA Activates Ancient Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Most Distant Human Object in Existence - Futurism

NASA engineers have pulled off an incredible feat, switching the agency's ancient Voyager 1 probe to a different set of thrusters.

The Europa Clipper stretches its wings as launch nears - The Register

Solar arrays are massive... but it's the transistors onlookers are really worried about

New species of 'horror' wasp discovered in the US: 'We didn’t think it was real,' scientists admit - New York Post

Scientists have discovered a new species of wasp that lays eggs in living flies so the babies burst out of their bellies

'Mountain of God' volcano in Tanzania is bulging, study finds - Livescience.com

Satellite data suggest a volcano in Tanzania that expels extremely runny lava could be creeping toward an eruption.

Dramatic Video Shows the Closest Flyby Ever of Mercury - Gizmodo

BepiColombo captured stunning views of the innermost planet on its way to explore its magnetic field.

Mysterious seismic event that shook the earth for 9 days was triggered by a 650-foot tsunami in Greenland, researchers say - CBS News

A tsunami stemming from a landslide was behind a surprising seismic event last year that shook the earth for nine days, researchers said.

Living the High Life: Scientists Discover Odd, Potentially Dangerous Lifeforms Thriving High in Earth’s Atmosphere - The Debrief

Surprising new research has revealed high-altitude air in Earth's atmosphere is teeming with potentially dangerous living organisms.

ESA's JUICE spacecraft confirmed Earth is habitable. Here's why - Space.com

Yes, you read that right. According to JUICE, the earth does indeed have the ingredients for life.

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Tiny laser makes copper wire reach 180,000°F in cosmic simulation - Interesting Engineering

SpaceX's private Polaris Dawn astronauts beam photos to Earth using Starlink satellites - Space.com

'Sent to you from space over a beam of Starlink laser light.'

Remembering where your meals came from key for a small bird’s survival - Ars Technica

For small birds, remembering where the food is beats forgetting when it's gone.

Aging, overworked and underfunded: NASA faces a dire future, according to experts - Phys.org

Aging infrastructure, short-term thinking, and ambitions that far outstrip its funding are just a few of the problems threatening the future of America's vaunted civil space agency, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.