NASA Perseverance rover launch to Mars: How to watch live - CNET Weather is looking good for NASA to launch Perseverance, the Mars 2020 rover, and Ingenuity, a helicopter, early Thursday morning. More...

NASA Rover Perseverance Blasts Off on New Mission to Mars - Bloomberg QuickTake News More...

Scientists Find The Best Place on Earth For Viewing The Night Sky, But There's a Catch - ScienceAlert Away from the glare of civilisation's blinding lights, an unimpeded view of the night sky makes you feel like you're standing on the shores of eternity. But there is one place on Earth where the sights stretch just that little bit further than anywhe More...

Breathtaking aerial pictures of NASA Perseverance launch are filling people with wonder - India TV News NASA launched its latest Mars mission yesterday with rover Perseverance and helicopter Ingenuity, now on their way to the red planet. Several images of the launch have already been released but the ones we are showing you today are special. These are aerial i… More...

Ask Ethan: How Old Are The Most Distant Stars We Can See? - Forbes When we look out at the Universe, we’re not seeing objects as they are today, but rather as they were when the light that reaches us today was emitted. More...

There is something strange about our universe, scientists find after mapping the cosmos - The Independent More...

SpaceX Starship static fire success sets rocket up for hop debut - Teslarati At long last, SpaceX’s fifth Starship prototype has successfully ignited its lone Raptor engine in a test known as a static fire, paving the way for the first flight of a full-scale Starship as early as this weekend. After almost three weeks of delays and sev… More...

The Anglerfish Deleted Its Immune System to Fuse With Its Mate - WIRED Underwater “sexual parasitism” between male and female allows two bodies to become one. Now we know the reason why. More...

Canadian ice caps disappear, confirming 2017 scientific prediction - Phys.org The St. Patrick Bay ice caps on the Hazen Plateau of northeastern Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, have disappeared, according to NASA satellite imagery. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) scientists and colleagues predicted via a 2017 paper in The… More...

Mystery Blob Detected Hidden Deep Inside a Supernova –“Not a Pulsar or Black Hole” - The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel In the fall of 1967, Princeton’s great quantum physicist, John Archibald Wheeler was giving a lecture on pulsars at a conference where he was arguing that we should consider the possibility that the center of a pulsar is a gravitationally completely collapsed… More...

'Space butterfly' created by a giant bubble of gas in the Milky Way - Daily Mail The striking planetary nebula, known as NGC 2899, appears to float and flutter across the sky in this pristine image from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. More...

NASA's Webb Telescope will study Jupiter, its rings, and two intriguing moons - Phys.org Jupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar system of circling satellites; their movements convinced Galileo Galilei that Earth is not the center of the universe in the early 17th century. More than 400 ye… More...

Scientists genetically alter squids for the first time in 'game-changing' breakthrough - USA TODAY The milestone could pave the way for researchers to study squid, octopus and cuttlefish the way they do common lab animals like mice and fruit flies. More...

How to watch SpaceX bring NASA astronauts back to Earth this weekend - CNET Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley made history getting to the space station aboard a Crew Dragon capsule. Weather permitting, they're coming home soon. More...

Cicadas Are Being Infected With Fungus That Makes Them Zombies - IGN Cicadas are being infected by a fungus that turns them into zombies after spending over a dozen years of their life underground. More...

Other solar systems could cram in as many as seven Earth-like planets - CNET We might want to blame Jupiter for the lack of other habitable planets around our own sun. More...

How human sperm really swim: New research challenges centuries-old assumption - Science Daily A breakthrough in fertility science has shattered the universally accepted view of how sperm 'swim'. More...

Ariane 5 scrubs launch of Mission Extension Vehicle, two communications satellites to orbit - NASASpaceflight.com An Ariane 5 rocket, operated by European Launch Service provider ArianeSpace, scrubbed ahead of its… More...

That Weird, Long Cloud on Mars Has Made a Dramatic Return - ScienceAlert Every good story deserves a sequel – and the strange white cloud spotted above an extinct Martian volcano back in 2018 just got one, because the stunning fog trail has made another appearance. More...

NASA Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley Are Coming Home! - NASA More...

NASA's Big Move to Search for Life on Mars – And to Bring Rocks Home - News18 NASA launched its most sophisticated and ambitious spacecraft to Mars: the aptly named Perseverance rover. This will be the third launch to Mars this month. More...