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The moon meets Saturn, shooting stars and more this week
The moon meets Saturn, shooting stars and more this week
(Oscar Gutierrez Zozulia via Getty Images)
From a close encounter between Saturn and the moon to the Southern Delta-Aquariids and a good view of the Northern Crown, there is much to see this week (July 22 to July 28) using just your naked eye.
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Spaceflight

NASA delays ISS spacewalks to investigate spacesuit leak
NASA delays ISS spacewalks to investigate spacesuit leak
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NASA says its next spacewalk will be delayed indefinitely until engineers understand more about what caused a coolant leak on June 24. Tracy Dyson, a NASA astronaut, had a brief spacesuit leak a month ago while still in the hatch of the International Space Station (ISS). She and Mike Barrett had just opened the door for a 6.5-hour spacewalk for maintenance activities, when showers of ice particles erupted from a spacesuit connection to the ISS. The spacewalk was suspended, but the astronauts were never in any danger, NASA has emphasized.
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Science & Astronomy

Cassini saw secrets in the seas of Saturn's moon Titan
Cassini saw secrets in the seas of Saturn's moon Titan
(NASA/Robert Lea)
NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft may have dramatically ended its 20-year mission to explore Saturn's neighborhood seven years ago, when it plunged to into the gas giant, but it is still delivering the scientific goods.
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Signs of life could survive on moons Enceladus and Europa
Signs of life could survive on moons Enceladus and Europa
(NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing: Kevin M. Gill CC BY 3.0)
Scientists have long theorized that both Enceladus, one of Saturn's 146 known moons, and Europa, one of Jupiter's four large Galilean moons among its total 95 moons, could host vast liquid water oceans that harbor life. If this is the case, then complex organic molecules like amino acids and nucleic acids, the building blocks of life as we know it, could serve as "biosignatures" of life on the worlds.
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F-35B Lightning II fighter aircraft from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121 are chocked and chained by Sailors assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) while conducting routine operations in the Philippine Sea

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Discovery of 'dark oxygen' from deep-sea metal lumps could trigger rethink of origins of life
(NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration)

Discovery of 'dark oxygen' from deep-sea metal lumps could trigger rethink of origins of life

In a global first, scientists working in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the North Pacific Ocean have found that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen, dubbed "dark oxygen."



Is the James Webb Space Telescope really 'breaking' cosmology?
(NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)
Is the James Webb Space Telescope really 'breaking' cosmology?
While headlines around the world claimed that ancient galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope were "breaking" our understanding of the Big Bang, the truth is much more nuanced — and much more interesting.

Animals

How many animal species have humans driven to extinction?
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How many animal species have humans driven to extinction?
Animals are disappearing too fast for researchers to record all of the extinctions we've caused.
Biology

Why did Homo sapiens outlast all other human species?
(WHPics, Paul Campbell, and Attie Gerber via Getty Images; collage by Marilyn Perkins)
Why did Homo sapiens outlast all other human species?
What's the secret to Homo sapiens' success as a species?


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Russia unveils timeline for building its new space station
Russia unveils timeline for building its new space station
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Russia has unveiled a comprehensive roadmap for building its newest space station and associated Earth-based infrastructure, with the first modules expected to launch within three years.
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Skywatching

See the moon and Saturn meet up in the night sky tonight
See the moon and Saturn meet up in the night sky tonight
(Jamie Cooper/SSPL/Getty Images)
Saturn is back. The sixth planet from the sun and the second largest in the solar system is at the top of most amateur astronomers' wish list. In July, it rises just before midnight and is high in the south before sunrise, but there are two nights this month when the famously "ringed planet" is visited by a waning gibbous moon.
Full Story: Space(7/23)
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ABL Space System's RS1 rocket destroyed during testing
ABL Space System's RS1 rocket destroyed during testing
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ABL Space Systems will have to wait a while to conduct its second-ever orbital launch. The California-based startup has been prepping its RS1 rocket for a test flight, which will lift off from the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska. But that vehicle is no longer in any condition to earn its wings.
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Science & Astronomy

X-ray telescope 'weighs' the closest dead star to Earth
X-ray telescope 'weighs' the closest dead star to Earth
(NASA/Sharon Morsink/Devarshi Choudhury et al.)
Using a NASA X-ray telescope mounted on the International Space Station (ISS), astronomers have weighed a rapidly spinning dead star that signifies the heart of the closest millisecond pulsar to Earth.
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