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Federal workers are being forced to work in the office five days per week in consolidated office space with understaffed cleaning crews and dwindling office supplies

Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited

Earth to astronaut Barbie, we have a new space collectible, but probably not for all of the reasons Mattel intended. The toy company has released a Barbie Miss Astronaut 60th anniversary doll.

The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by this Wednesday (March 26). Researchers will monitor it carefully during its close approach.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is an optical illusion.

Wile E. Coyote is popular again. That’s thanks to former NASA engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober, who posted a video a couple of weeks ago showing how a Tesla Model Y drove through a fake wall while the so-called Full Self-Driving (FSD) software was supposedly active.

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation triggered a fervid series of observations of the object — possibly as big as a football field — to determine that it will not hit. However, an impact on the moon cannot…

On Episode 153 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Robert Zubrin, founder and president of The Mars Society, about making real, actionable plans to send a crew to Mars.

If a picture paints a thousand words... here’s all you need to know or may have missed about this past week in Culture (17-21 March 2025).