Canadarm2 repairs planned as CRS-34 departs ISS

TAMPA, Fla. — Five-month-old startup Orbital has asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to deploy up to 100,000 data center satellites, aiming to bring 10 gigawatts of computing power from space to meet rising artificial intelligence demand. The filings submitted June 24 add a few more details for a constellation the Los Angeles-based venture…

For this NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month we return to the constellation Orion (the Hunter), a location familiar to Webb. This area of the sky is replete with star-forming clouds that make up a complex hundreds of light-years across. We find ourselves in the giant molecular cloud Orion A, of which the familiar Orion Nebula…

Gold earrings PHETCHABURI, THAILAND—The Bangkok Post reports that a ninth set of human remains has been unearthed at Don Yai Thong, a burial site in central Thailand dated to between 1,500 and 2,000 years ago. Earlier this year, archaeologists uncovered eight skeletons with bronze vessels placed over the heads and chins of the deceased; glass…

America at 250: The Revolutionary Spark A Smithsonian magazine special report Baker’s work was instrumental in the success of the NAACP and other organizations, but she did it in a way that didn’t put herself in the spotlight. That was by design Hsiao-Ron Cheng Ella Baker built in the background. Though her work as a grassroots…

Scientists know that plate tectonics play an important role in maintaining Earth’s habitability. Plate tectonics enable the carbon-silicate cycle that regulates the planet’s temperature over geologic timescales. Tectonics also recycles important nutrients like phosphorous and sulphur that would otherwise remain locked in ocean sediments. It affects habitability in other ways, like by generating different types…

Imagine standing in the emptiest place the universe has to offer, a stretch of cosmic ocean so vast that light takes tens of millions of years to cross it, and yet still finding company. That is the puzzle behind a new study built on the Calar Alto Void Integral field Treasury surveY, or CAVITY. These…