NASA shuts down Maxar-led OSAM-1 satellite refueling project
NASA cited "continued technical, cost, and schedule challenges, and a broader community evolution away from refueling unprepared spacecraft, which has led to a lack of a committed…
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Intuitive Machines stock (LUNR) jumps after Odysseus moon landing
Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lunar lander on display at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.NASAThe Houston, Texas company confirmed that the IM-1 mission lander was standing upright and…
The Space News We’ll Be Watching in 2021
Artist’s concept of an SLS launch.Image: NASAYear In ReviewYear In ReviewWe look back at the best, worst, and most significant moments of the year, and look forward to next year.Blast off…
Mild Covid-19 Cases More Likely to Lose Their Sense of Smell, Study Finds
A patient in Mexico City, Mexico receiving a covid-19 nasal swab test in December 2020.Photo: Rebecca Blackwell (AP)For people with mild covid-19, the nose may know better than any other…
Polish zoo captures rare mouse-deer birth on video
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A zoo in Poland says it’s the first to have captured on video the birth of a rare Philippine mouse-deer, and everyone’s hoping it’s a male so it can help the…
Bad Astronomy | 2020 SO may not be an asteroid but a Centaur rocket from a Moon
Astronomers have discovered a small object in space that will pass by Earth on 1 December 2020 by the small margin of just 50,000 km. Not only that, but our planet's gravity…
Fancy Dinosaur With Bizarre Shoulder Decorations Was the Peacock of the Cretaceous
Artist’s impression of Ubirajara jubatus.Illustration: Bob Nicholls/Paleocreations.com 2020The re-analysis of an old fossil has revealed features never seen before in a dinosaur,…
Warming already baked in will blow past climate goals
FILE - The Jan. 10, 2009 file photo shows a flock of geese flying past a smokestack at the Jeffery Energy Center coal power plant near Emmitt, Kan. A new study says the amount of global…
Yes, Super Gonorrhea Is Real and It’s Gonna Get Worse
An illustration of Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria, the cause of gonorrhea.Illustration: Alissa Eckert/CDCOver the weekend, a particularly awful pair of words started trending on social…
Britain to send a space spider to the Moon
Britain is to launch a robotic ‘space spider’ to the Moon in 2021, the first time a walking rover has been sent to explore a distant world.
The little probe - called Asagumo - has been…