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Rare ‘Sharktopus’ – an octopus riding a shark – sighting caught on camera shared by scientists

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Rare ‘Sharktopus’ – an octopus riding a shark – sighting caught on camera shared by scientistsThe shark and octopus seemed 'quite happy' by the encounter, one of the researchers saidA rare sighting captured off the coast of New Zealand and shared by scientists affiliated with the University of Auckland shows a Maori octopus riding on top of a mako shark, which is the fastest in the world with the ability to swim up to 46 mph. (University of Auckland)
The researchers launched a drone and put a GoPro camera in the water and “saw something unforgettable: an octopus perched atop the shark’s head, clinging on with its tentacles,” University of Auckland Professor Rochelle Constantine wrote in a piece for the university last week. (University of Auckland)
Researchers said the octopus was in for “quite the experience” with the world's fastest shark. (University of Auckland)

‘Alien’ encounter: ISS crew member plays joke as SpaceX team arrives

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‘Alien’ encounter: ISS crew member plays joke as SpaceX team arrivesCrew-10 astronauts greeted by 'alien' while entering the ISSRussian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner wears an alien mask in the port during the arrival of Crew-10 to the ISS on March 16, 2025. (NASA/SPACEX)
Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner wears an alien mask and sits in the port during the arrival of Crew-10 to the ISS on March 16, 2025. (NASA/SPACEX)
Closer look at the light blue alien mask worn by Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner as Crew-10 arrived at the ISS. (NASA/SPACEX)
This image made from video by NASA shows astronauts greeting each other after a SpaceX capsule docked with the International Space Station, Sunday, March 16, 2025. Top row from left: Nick Hague, Alexander Gorbunov, Suni Williams, Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. Bottom row from left: Butch Wilmore, Takuya Onishi, Anne McClain, Kirill Peskov, Nichole Ayers and Don Pettit. (NASA)

Athena lunar lander makes it to the moon — but its condition remains unknown

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Athena lunar lander makes it to the moon — but its condition remains unknownAthena is the second spacecraft to land on the moon this weekThis photo provided by NASA shows the Intuitive Machines' Athena lander approaching the surface of the moon on Thursday, March 6, 2025. (NASA via AP)
In this undated image released by Intuitive Machines, Intuitive Machines’ newest lunar lander is displayed. (Intuitive Machines via AP)
In this rendering private lunar lander Blue Ghost touches down on the moon with a special delivery for NASA Sunday, March 2, 2025. (NASA/Firefly Aerospace via AP)

Private lunar lander Blue Ghost lands on the moon with equipment for NASA

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Private lunar lander Blue Ghost lands on the moon with equipment for NASA'You all stuck the landing. We’re on the moon,' said Firefly Aerospace’s Will Coogan, chief engineer for the landerThis image provided by Firefly Aerospace on Feb. 26, 2025, shows Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander orbiting the moon. (Firefly Aerospace via AP)
Private lunar lander Blue Ghost after touching down on the moon with a special delivery for NASA on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (NASA/Firefly Aerospace via AP)
In this rendering, private lunar lander Blue Ghost touches down on the moon with a special delivery for NASA on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (NASA/Firefly Aerospace via AP)

Mars’ red color may be related to a habitable past: study

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Mars’ red color may be related to a habitable past: studyThe Red Planet may have had an abundance of water billions of years agoMars' distinctive red color comes from the mineral ferrihydrite, which only forms in the presence of cool water, a new study claims. (AFP via Getty Images)
In this handout released by NASA, a Mars landscape is seen in a photo taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit in 2003. (NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Cornell University via Getty Images)
Lab sample of simulated Mars dust. (NASA/Adam Valantinas)

Scientists link gene to emergence of spoken language

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Scientists link gene to emergence of spoken languageScientists spliced a human protein into mice, changing the way they vocalizedCasts of skulls are seen inside an exhibit of early human species inside the Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins on July 20, 2023, at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

NASA astronaut stuck in space reports ‘strange noises’ coming from troubled Starliner capsule

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A NASA astronaut at the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday reported hearing a “strange noise” coming from the Boeing Starliner spacecraft just days before it is set to leave the station and return to Earth on autopilot.
The astronaut, Butch Wilmore, radioed Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston to inquire about the noise.
On an audio recording of the exchange, Wilmore holds up a phone to the speakers so that Mission Control could hear the noise he was referring to. A pulsating sound emanating at steady intervals can be heard through Wilmore’s device.
“Butch, that one came through,” Mission Control says after not hearing it the first time. “It was kind of like a pulsating noise, almost like a sonar ping.”
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“I’ll do it one more time and let you all scratch your heads and see if you can figure out what’s going on,” Wilmore tells Mission Control..

NASA provides explanation for ‘strange noises’ coming from Starliner spacecraft

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The mystery behind a “strange noise” that a NASA astronaut heard coming from the Boeing Starliner spacecraft while aboard the International Space Station has been solved, the space agency said Monday.
Astronaut Butch Wilmore first reported the pulsating sound coming from a speaker inside the spacecraft to Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston on Saturday, just days before it was set to leave the station and return to Earth on autopilot.
NASA said in a statement on social media that the pulsing sound from the speaker has since stopped and determined the feedback was the result of an audio configuration between the space station and Starliner.
“The space station audio system is complex, allowing multiple spacecraft and modules to be interconnected, and it is common to experience noise and feedback,” NASA said. “The crew is asked to contact mission control when they hear sounds originating in the comm system. The speaker feedback Wilmore reported has no technical impact to th..

Boeing’s troubled Starliner spacecraft lands back on Earth without a crew

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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft touched down on Earth early Saturday morning, with two test pilots left behind in space until next year over NASA’s concerns that their return was too risky.
Starliner parachuted into New Mexico’s White Sands Missile Range six hours after leaving the International Space Station, landing at 12:01 a.m. ET.
“I am extremely proud of the work our collective team put into this entire flight test, and we are pleased to see Starliner’s safe return,” Ken Bowersox, associate administrator of Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said in a statement.
“Even though it was necessary to return the spacecraft uncrewed, NASA and Boeing learned an incredible amount about Starliner in the most extreme environment possible,” he added. “NASA looks forward to our continued work with the Boeing team to proceed toward certification of Starliner for crew rotation missions to the space station.”
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Stadium-sized asteroid deemed ‘potentially hazardous’ by NASA, is expected to move ‘relatively close’ to Earth

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is monitoring a “potentially hazardous” asteroid that is moving past Earth on Tuesday.
NASA told Fox News Digital that the rocky object, which has been named 2024 ON, is 350 meters long by 180 meters wide, which roughly equals 1,150 feet by 590 feet – larger than previous estimates.
NASA has deemed the asteroid “stadium-sized” and reported it was 621,000 miles away from Earth on Tuesday morning, which is considered relatively close. Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Fox News Digital that an asteroid of this size coming this close to Earth only happens every five to ten years.
Farnocchia, who works at the laboratory’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, said that the last time a large meteor entered the Earth’s atmosphere was in Russia in 2013. Earth has not been hit by a meteor of 2024 ON’s size since prehistoric times.
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