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TOPSHOT - A photo taken on May 13, 2019 shows a view of the moon in Cannes, southern France. - The Moon is steadily shrinking, causing wrinkling on its surface and quakes, according to an analysis of imagery captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) published Monday May 13, 2019. (Photo by Laurent EMMANUEL / AFP) (Photo credit should read LAURENT EMMANUEL/AFP via Getty Images)

A rocket booster could crash into the moon in the next few weeks

After completing the first of 10 spacewalks to upgrade the station, astronaut Christina Koch wrote: "The great @Space_Station battery swap series of spacewalks is underway! A joy & privilege working with @AstroDrewMorgan outside, @astro_luca as the lead for suits & airlock, @Astro_Jessica as robotic arm operator, & the incredible teams in Houston. 3 batteries complete, 9 to go!"

Avoiding the 'time warp' of living in space could help astronauts thrive on Mars

This image shows a new view of the Milky Way from the Murchison Widefield Array, with the lowest frequencies in red, middle frequencies in green, and the highest frequencies in blue. The star icon shows the position of the mysterious repeating transient.

Unknown space object beaming out radio signals every 18 minutes remains a mystery

African Clawed-frog (Xenopus laevis)

Frogs can regrow amputated limbs after being treated with mix of drugs, new research finds

A mosaic image (without labels) with the background removed to isolate the magnetic filaments. The magnetic filaments are large, vertical slashes throughout the image.

Hundreds of mysterious strands found at the heart of the Milky Way

Close up of the hybrid camels in the frieze, flanking a royal figure.

Ancient Arab temple art reveals hybrid camels

Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Telescope reaches its final destination a million miles from Earth

This mosaic of Saturn's moon Mimas was created from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its closest flyby of the moon in February 2010. A new study suggests that the moon is either shaped like a football or it contains a liquid water ocean.

Saturn's ice moon could be a 'stealth' ocean world hospitable to life

A simulated image released by China's Space Debris Monitoring and Application Center shows how close the debris from Russia's recent anti-satellite test came to their satellite.

Debris from Russian missile test nearly strikes a Chinese satellite

Stunning find discovered hiding in the ocean's 'twilight zone'

Dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10 sparkles with young stars in this Hubble visible-light image. The bright region at the center, surrounded by pink clouds and dark dust lanes, indicates the location of the galaxy's massive black hole and active stellar nurseries.

A black hole fueling star birth has scientists doing a double-take

Images acquired Jan. 9, 2022, from the Mars Color Imager instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter were combined to create this view showing the presence of a regional dust storm obscuring the location of Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (white circle).

Ingenuity helicopter flight stalled for first time due to unusual Mars weather

A non-native European green crab that was trapped and removed from Seadrift Lagoon in Stinson Beach, California in 2017. The invasive crustaceans have been plaguing the Pacific coast from Monterey Bay north to British Columbia for the past several years.

Emergency order to tackle green crab infestation in Washington

The Doomsday Clock remained at 100 seconds to midnight in 2022 - the same time it's been set as since 2020.

The Doomsday Clock reveals how close we are to...doom

Life reconstruction of the dinosaur Struthiosaurus austriacus from the Late Cretaceous of Austria.

'Living fortress' dinosaur was lonesome, sluggish and hard of hearing

A new species of tarantula discovered by Thai YouTube star

A wild panda named "Happiness" feeds on a bamboo shoot in Foping Nature Reserve, Shaanxi province, China, in 2013. He is a long monitored giant panda in Dr. Fuwen Wei's study and they have collected samples from Happiness for this study. Dr. Fuwen WEI is a Professor, CAS Academician and TWAS Fellow at the Key Lab of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing, China.

Bacteria help pandas get the most out of being picky eaters, study says