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From a garden to legs for a robotic astronaut helper, here are five strange things flying to the International Space Station onboard SpaceX’s Dragon capsule Monday.
NASA's uncrewed Artemis 1 mission, the first of the Artemis program launched on Nov. 16, 2022, carrying an assortment of intriguing cargo into lunar orbit. From plushies to 'torsos' we take a look ...
Space is a strange place made stranger by our need to rocket the weird and unusual beyond our atmosphere By Darren Orf Published: Sep 27, 2013 2:30 AM EDT Save Article Media Platforms Design Team ...
It's pretty mind-bending stuff, so kick back and watch the Space Time video above to try to get a better sense of all the strange things happening in our universe—including electroweak stars ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has peered deeper than ever before into the heart of the supermassive black hole-powered quasar 3C, 273 spotting "weird" structures.
Noticing weird things then working backwards to figure out what’s causing said weird thing is a basic tenet of how science works. And when you’ve got a canvas as crazy as space, some of the ...
The Fermi space telescope has spotted nearly 500 powerful gamma-ray sources in deep space over the last three years. Before its launch in 2008, scientists only knew of four such objects.
Frighteningly, the bacteria became even more virulent in space — troubling news for future space colonies. 5. Tardigrades (water bears) An adult tardigrade. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
A pass of the International Space Station on January 26, 2019 (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...
Of all the weird things NASA likes to bring into space, movie props seem to be the most common. A Buzz Lightyear figurine spent 467 days aboard the ISS, as Space.com reports, and now lives at the ...