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In this week’s episode of Space Minds, we explore how microgravity accelerates aging—and guest Dr. Nadia Maarouf shares her insights on the phenomenon and what she’s doing to
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, currently headed toward Jupiter on an asteroid-hopping mission, has captured an impressive close-up of its second target: the space rock 52246 Donaldjohanson. Lucy launched in 2021, embarking
NASA/Kevin O’Brien NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) solid rocket boosters are the largest, most powerful solid propellant boosters to ever fly. Standing 17 stories tall and burning approximately six tons
This image shows a wide-field view of part of the Taurus Molecular Cloud, about 450 light-years from Earth. Its relative closeness makes it an ideal place to study the formation
For centuries, alchemists dreamed of turning lead into gold — not through magic, but by unlocking the hidden potential within metals themselves. While their methods never panned out, those of
Astronomers have discovered the “missing link” connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar remnants, in the form of a “teenage vampire” white dwarf. This
HELSINKI — Two Chinese Shijian satellites appear to be maneuvering towards a rendezvous and docking in geostationary orbit, with U.S. surveillance spacecraft also in the vicinity. China’s Shijian-21 and Shijian-25
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), which shows dust from the galaxy’s outer ring blocking stellar light from stars within the
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