By Morgan McFall-Johnsen, Insider
NASA postponed a spacewalk on Tuesday due to a threat that’s becoming routine: space debris that might fly too close to the International Space Station (ISS). Continue reading High-speed space junk risk prompts NASA to abruptly delay spacewalk on the International Space Station
By Katie Hunt, CNN
The US scientists who created the first living robots say the life forms, known as xenobots, can now reproduce — and in a way not seen in plants and animals. Continue reading World’s first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say
By John’s Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Scitech Daily
Lighting up the California coastline early in the morning of November 24, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft off the planet to begin its one-way trip to crash into an asteroid. Continue reading NASA’s DART Kinetic Impactor Spacecraft Launches in World’s First Planetary Defense Test Mission
According to a report published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a now 31-year-old woman who was diagnosed with HIV in 2013 only took antiretroviral therapy for six months during pregnancy to prevent transmitting the infection to her baby. Yet multiple sophisticated tests looking for genetic evidence of HIV in the patient’s blood showed no intact virus in her cells, says Dr. Xu Yu, who led the research team reporting on the case. Continue reading A Second HIV Patient Has Cleared the Virus Without Antiviral Drugs
By Paul Rincon, BBC News
Few observers expected Nasa to make the previous 2024 date, because of a funding shortfall and a lawsuit over the landing vehicle. Continue reading Nasa’s Moon return pushed back to 2025
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a concept that would make Martian rocket fuel, on Mars, that could be used to launch future astronauts back to Earth. Continue reading Using Microbes To Make Martian Rocket BioFuel on Mars
By Katie Hunt, CNN
Scientists say they have found a trace of ancient life inside a 2.5 billion-year-old ruby. Continue reading Scientists discover trace of ancient life in a 2.5 billion-year-old ruby
By Jody Serrano, Gizmodo
The Russian film crew that traveled to the International Space Station to film scenes for the first movie shot partially in space returned to Earth safely on Sunday. Continue reading Russian Film Crew Returns to Earth Safely After 12 Days of Shooting on the ISS
By BBC News
Yulia Peresild, 37, is set to star in the film, directed by Klim Shipenko. Continue reading Russian film team boldly shoot towards space station
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Dr. Sian Proctor has made history as the first Black woman to serve as a pilot of a spacecraft when SpaceX’s Inspiration4 Mission launched on Wednesday. Continue reading Sian Proctor becomes first Black woman to pilot spacecraft with SpaceX launch
