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SpaceX’s Dragon Capsule May Be Contaminating the ISS
Contamination sensors have spiked after several SpaceX arrivals at the International Space Station, suggesting that ISS…
The View From the Control Room: How InSight Landed on Mars
Inside Mission Support at Lockheed Martin, which led spacecraft operations for NASA's InSight lander, tensions ran…
Cosmology Is in Crisis Over How to Measure the Universe
A raging debate over the Hubble constant suggests that our standard model of cosmology might be…
New Satellites Will Use Radio Waves to Spy on Ships and Planes
This month, HawkEye 360 will send up satellites that monitor the radio transmissions of ships, planes…
Fusty Ol’ Scientific Texts Get a Gorgeous, Pricey Makeover
Arty versions of science classics are mostly a gift for your midcentury modern coffee table—but *****…
These New Tricks Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos—for Now
We'll soon find it hard to know with our own eyes if a video is real…
Everyone Wants to Go to the Moon Again—Logic Be ******
Space companies and national agencies are all gunning to visit the moon and kick off a…
The Strange, Sad Case of Sunspot, the Empty Astronomy Town
New Mexico's Sunspot Observatory was evacuated over a child **** investigation. But that's just one of…
E.T. Hunters Join Forces to Probe the Heavens
SETI Institute cofounder Jill Tarter doesn’t want her former intern to forget about intelligent aliens.