Cristoforetti shared the haunting view of the US national parkon social media last week. Peaking through the clouds… the Grand Canyon! Watkins is a NASA astronaut and current ISS crewmate of Cristoforetti’s. Watkins' science background includes a doctorate in geology and research into landslides on Earth and Mars. It’s humbling and majestic at the same time. Cristoforetti has been on the station since arriving with the SpaceX Crew-4 mission in April....

But the situation changed. Numerous entertainment outlets filmed the emotional moment. “I was told to get a gun. Streets are crazy.” Chmerkovskiy and Murgatroyd have a 5-year-old son, Shai. Chmerkovskiy was born in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1980 when the country was part of the Soviet Union. His family immigrated to New York in 1994, and he began competing as a professional dancer. He won the show’s coveted mirror ball trophy in 2014 when paired with Olympic ice dancer Meryl Davis....

Red wolves are a rare sight. The video shows an adult wolf running through a field, followed by a series of pups. The pups then wander back into the frame while frolicking through the grass. USFWSpic.twitter.com/bdmz97SGcJ The footage comes from the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina. The pups are the first born in the wild since 2018. “Let’s hear it for the vitality of this lovely litter!...

In addition, astronomers can use the Spitzer telescope to see through the nebula. On top of its melodramatic history, Eta Carinae is one of the most massive stars we know of.

A chunk of the planet was treated to a wild festival of aurora lights on Sunday evening. The view is like looking up at the sky through a marble. It shows waves and waves of swirling green and red aurora lights dancing across the frame. Here’s ESA#SpaceWeatherNetworks contribution from Kiruna @IRF_Spacelast night! It snaps one image per minute. Those ingredients combined for excellent aurora conditions. According to ESA, lights were visible as far south as southern England and central Germany....

The museum shared a video of the process, which wasn’t easy. The sweater was custom-cut and fitted and features tiny little arms to accommodate the beast’s famously dainty appendages. It has a turtleneck design so the dinosaur’s long neck stays cozy. Of course, the sweater-wearing T. rex isn’t scientifically accurate. The museum’s festive fashion model will wear its sweater through Dec. 24. as it roars at you.

He arrived on a SpaceX Crew Dragon in November 2020 and has already taken two spacewalks. Oh, and he got atouching personal message from actor Idris Elba. The star appeared in a video sent to Glover up on the ISS. “You will be surprised to know this is my first time in space,” said Elba. “But I have been to space in movies.” Elba and Glover are in a mutual-admiration society....

Last week, the International Space Station welcomed a new Russian-built laboratory module. There are also representatives from NASA, the European Space Agency and Japan’s space agency JAXA. Nauka’s thruster issue pushed back thelaunch of Boeing’s uncrewed Starliner test flightto the ISS. A Roscosmos statement called out a “short-term software failure” as the reason for the thrusters incident. Thrusters located elsewhere on the station helped to correct the problem.

TheTokyo summer gamesmay be over, but the Olympics legacy lives on… in space. Pesquet detailed the names of the events: synchronized space swimming, lack-of-floor routine, no-handball and weightless sharpshooting. The rules were subject to change during the competition. As for declaring a winner, I would suggest space fans down on Earth came out on top.

Some female spiders have a reputation of eating their mates after copulation. Male Philoponella prominens orb weaver spiders are the kangaroos of the arachnid world. The researchers capturedvideo of the catapulting actionthat shows the males' quick getaway method. They observed 155 successful matings with 152 ending in a catapult to freedom. The three that didn’t catapult became dinner. To test the observations, the researchers prevented 30 males from catapulting away....

Thestorm brought heavy rainfalland the chance for flash floods and mudslides as its remnants moved inland on Tuesday. Agatha was downgraded to a tropical storm after reaching land. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sharedanother look at Agathafrom its GOES-Eastweather satellite. The closer view highlights the wild cloud patterns in the hurricane. The prediction calls for between four and eight hurricanes. The season runs from May 15 to Nov. 30.

OceanGate Expeditionscaptured the footage using a submersible during a 2022 expedition. That’s about as deep as the Titanic is located on the ocean floor. The new video is an upgrade on thefirst 4K video of the Titanicfrom 2019. You’ll notice a pair of bright green lights at times. That’s from a laser system that helps researchers work out the size of the objects on the video. The shipwreck is fragile, and time and ocean conditions are taking a toll on it....

Theuniversity shared some views from Global Meteor internet camerasthat documented the incoming fireball. TheGlobal Meteor Networkis a citizen-science project that tracks meteors using small cameras installed around the globe. The university reminds meteorite hunters to always get land owner permission to collect rocks. Meteorite hunters can play a role in that worthy quest for knowledge.