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It has been billed as China’s first emergency operation in the country’s human spaceflight program. The three astronauts (or taikonauts) of China’s Shenzhou-20 mission were originally slated to return to Earth last Nov. 5, but after discovering cracks in the viewport of their spacecraft, their landing was postponed. Chen Dong, commander of the Shenzhou-20 crew,

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, the commander of the International Space Station, revealed that he was the crew member whose medical issue required a group of space station fliers to cut short their mission and return early to Earth in January. Fincke, 58, did not provide details about the medical issue nor his current health status,

Two heads are better than one in the latest images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which reveal new detail in a mysterious, little-studied nebula surrounding a dying star.  Nebula PMR 1 is a cloud of gas and dust that bears an uncanny resemblance to a brain in a transparent skull, inspiring its nickname, the

Drosophila stock maintenance PCNA::EGFP flies used for interphase-staged Pico-C were generously provided by S. A. Blythe and E. Wieschaus (Princeton University). The sfGFP-Zelda and GAF-sfGFP flies were generated as described previously11,60. Jabba-Trap was expressed from the maternal α-tubulin 67 promoter, kindly provided by S. A. Blythe61. Flies were maintained on standard cornmeal-agar food and raised

Tip-toeing T rex could beat Usain Bolt over 100m, study finds  The Times T. Rex Ran on Its Tiptoes ‘Like an 8-Ton Chicken’ – The New York Times  The New York Times Forget flatfooted lumbering T. rex. New research shows it walked on tiptoes  Phys.org T. Rex Likely Ran on Tiptoes Like a Giant Bird  Newser Twinkle toes rex!  PressReader

A newly released plot of the Hubble Space Telescope’s altitude shows just how quickly the observatory has descended in recent years. The post on Bluesky by astronomer Jonathan McDowell is a stark reminder that Hubble is heading back to Earth, possibly sooner than previously thought, as its orbit decays. Hubble was launched into low Earth

Here on Earth, it seems easy and straightforward to know “where” anything is, or to know “when” an event either occurred or will occur. After all, we’ve mapped out the entire surface of the Earth, and can define our location with three coordinates — latitude, longitude, and altitude/depth — no matter where in the world

Fincke, Cardman, Yui and Platonov had been living and working aboard the International Space Station since early August and were originally expected to stay at the orbiting outpost until late February. Instead, top NASA officials and the agency’s chief health and medical officer opted to bring the astronauts back to Earth a week after the

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery in the search for distant exoplanets. A new super-Jupiter, nearly five times the mass of our own Jupiter, has been found orbiting the star TIC-65910228, a metal-rich sun-like star located 864 light years away. This discovery, made by an international team of researchers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

NASA has revealed new details about last month’s rare medical evacuation from the International Space Station (ISS). The agency confirmed on Tuesday that astronaut Mike Fincke, 58, experienced the medical issue that prompted Crew-11’s mission to end a month early. Fincke declined to share specifics about his condition or current health but praised his colleagues