[ September 7, 2016 ] Soyuz spaceship lands in Kazakhstan Mission Reports and other top stories.

• [ September 7, 2016 ] Soyuz spaceship lands in Kazakhstan Mission Reports

  

  STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft touched down in Kazakhstan at 9:13 p.m. EDT Tuesday (0113 GMT Wednesday). Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Less than a week after winding up a successful spacewalk, outgoing space station commander Jeff Williams, America’s most experienced astronaut, joined two Russian cosmonauts for a fiery return to Earth Tuesday, closing out a 172-day mission with an on-target landing in Kazakhstan. Descending under a billowing orange-an..

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• Is climate change generating stronger typhoons?

  

  Warming waters are producing increasingly powerful typhoons, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Ocean warming has already left a clear mark on marine biodiversity, causing coral bleaching and altered animal behavior. But a new study, published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, emphasizes the impact of warming waters on coastal communities. In the last 40 years, researchers say, tropical cyclones in East and Southeast Asia have increased – both i..

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• 'Real' Loch Ness Monster? Large 164-million-year-old fossil unveiled in Scotland

  

  Is the Loch Ness Monster real? Maybe it was once, in a different lake. The BBC reports a large, 164-million-year-old fossil has been found in Edinburgh, Scotland. Researchers are calling the newly unveiled ichthyosaur, a dolphin-like dinosaur, the "Storr Lochs Monster." According to the Telegraph, the fossilized skeleton was actually found 50 years ago on the Isle of Skye by a local power station manager. It was preserved in National Museums Scotland's storage facility, but only able to be ext..

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• Spacecom CEO wants 'several safe flights' before using SpaceX again

  

  An explosion on the launch site of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is shown in this still image from video in Cape Canaveral Thomson Reuters By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - The chief executive of Israeli satellite operator Space Communication Ltd said on Tuesday he wants to see "several safe flights" from SpaceX before using Elon Musk's space firm again to launch one of his company's satellites. In an interview with Reuters, Spacecom CEO David Pollack als..

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• NASA science flights study effect of summer melt on Greenland ice sheet

  

  The image above, taken during a high-priority flight that IceBridge carried on Aug. 29, shows Helheim Glacier, with its characteristic wishbone-shaped channels, as seen from about 20,000 feet in the sky. Helheim is one of Greenland's largest and ...

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• NASA's Juno spacecraft sends back first detailed images of Jupiter

  

  Scientists have reported exciting new discoveries about Jupiter after NASA’s Juno spacecraft sent a trove of images of the planet taken during a trek from its north to south poles late last month. The images were released Friday. The mission is the first flyby of its kind in a series intended to dig deeper into what makes Jupiter tick. Juno made the journey on Aug. 27 at a range of about 2,500 miles above the planet’s clouds. NASA wrote on its website that the JunoCam transmitted six megabytes ..

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• Why NASA Picked Space Rock Bennu for Its Asteroid-Sampling Mission

  

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — What's so special about Bennu? NASA had literally thousands of potential targets for its asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx mission, which is scheduled to launch Thursday (Sept. 8) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station here. But the agency decided on a space rock named Bennu, because the asteroid checks off three important boxes. "Bennu's size, primitive and carbon-rich composition and orbit make it one of the most fascinating and accessible asteroids, and that is wh..

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