Fox News Science – 06/07/2023

NASA finalized its strategy for sustaining a human presence in space this week, looking ahead toward the planned de-orbiting of the International Space Station in 2030.

A complete mastodon jaw found by a New York homeowner will undergo “extensive scientific analysis” before being put on display to the public.

NASA and Voyager 1 resumed communications and operations after a fault protection system switched the interstellar spacecraft’s mode of communication to one using less power.

Earth is parting company with an asteroid that’s been tagging along as a “mini moon” for the past two months. The harmless space rock will peel away on Monday.

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists have discovered Bathydevius caudactylus, a new species of glowing sea slug that lives deep in the ocean.

NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered the spacecraft’s fault protection system.

The Orionids meteor shower peaks on Monday, but will continue to light up the sky through Nov. 22, as debris from Halley’s Comet enters Earth’s atmosphere.

U.S.-based startup company Heliospect Genomics reportedly is offering wealthy couples embryo screening for IQ and other traits at $50,000 for 100 embryos.

SpaceX pulled off a stunning achievement this week, conducting four launches in less than 48 hours with huge implications for the future of space exploration.

A massive NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The craft, named Europa Clipper, will determine if conditions there could support life.

The sun blasted a coronal mass at Earth earlier this week, and after back-to-back major hurricanes, some are concerned it could impact the power grid.

Two pioneers of artificial intelligence have won the Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning.

NASA has released the clearest view of Mars seen thus far, with a field of blue rocks seen on the Martian landscape on top of an ancient lake.

A spike in earthquakes at Mount Adams, a volcano in Washington state, prompted scientists to install additional monitoring instruments to assess the seismic activity.

A comet that has not been seen for more than 80,000 years is expected to be visible from Earth, potentially during two separate time periods in the next month.

Venomous Blue Sea Dragons are washing up on the sandy shores of the Outer Banks in North Carolina, and National Park officials advise to admire them from a distance.

A coronal mass ejection could strike the Earth’s magnetosphere this week and cause a geomagnetic storm due to conditions caused by the autumnal equinox.

A bold new study in Physical Review suggests that a wobble detected in Mars’ orbit could be the result of dark matter made up of primordial black holes.

Scientists in New Mexico conducted several experiments and learned that asteroids can be deflected from Earth using explosions of nuclear warheads above the space rock’s surface.

A stadium-sized asteroid is passing relatively close to Earth on Tuesday, NASA announced. Its distance from Earth and its massive size makes it a “potentially hazardous object.”

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft landed on Earth Saturday morning, with two test pilots left behind because of NASA’s concerns that their return was too risky.

NASA discovered the cause of a pulsating noise coming from a speaker on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft after astronaut Butch Wilmore reported the sound.

A NASA astronaut at the International Space Station reported hearing strange noises coming from the Boeing Starliner just days before the spacecraft is set to return to Earth.

A new species of Jurassic dinosaur related to Tyrannosaurus rex has been discovered by paleontologists in Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia.

Iowa archaeologists have unearthed a 13,600-year-old mastodon skull in pristine condition during a nearly two-week excavation at an eroding creek bank in Wayne County.