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Mysterious Europa Gets an Extreme Closeup From NASA's Juno Probe
The Moon was Pummeled by Asteroids at the Same Time the Dinosaurs Died. Coincidence?
DART Impact Seen by Hubble and Webb
NASA and SpaceX Will Study Low-Cost Plan to Give Hubble a Boost
The First Telescope Images of DART's Impact are Starting to Arrive
The ESA just released a video that shows the DART mission impacting the double-asteroid system of Didymos and Dimorphos.
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Robots Might Jump Around to Explore the Moon
LEAP (Legged Exploration of the Aristarchus Plateau) is a mission concept study, funded by ESA, to explore challenging lunar terrains using ANYmal, developed at ETH Zürich and its spin-off ANYbotics.
Credit: ETH Zürich/Robotics Systems Labs (RSL)
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China uses drag sail to clear up space junk successfully.
Alaska Has New Lakes. Unfortunately, They're Releasing a lot of Methane
Jupiter's Atmosphere is Surprisingly Hot
Jupiter's upper atmosphere should be pretty cold, but it is surprisingly quite hot.
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A Fascinating Look at Jupiter's Clouds Where the Light Intensity is Converted Into 3D
Using images taken by JunoCam, a team of citizen scientists have created a 3D animation of Jupiter's atmosphere
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Watch a Nicely Stabilized Video of DART Flying Past Didymos and Slamming Into Dimorphos
As Hurricane Ian Bears Down on Florida, NASA Decides to Roll Artemis 1 Back to the Assembly Building
Upcoming Missions Could Search for Ancient Alien Technology Within the Solar System
In a recent report, researchers with the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center recommend that we search for extraterrestrial intelligence here in the Solar System.
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Another Ghostly Spiral Galaxy Revealed by JWST
Climate Change is Making the Skies Worse for Astronomy
TESS Finds a Super-Earth and two Mini-Neptunes in a Single System
A recent study based on TESS data has revealed a three-planet system (two mini-Neptunes and a Super-Earth) just over 200 light-years away.
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This is the Last Thing DART saw as it Smashed Into its Asteroid Target
Scientists in Antarctica Have Access to Starlink Now. It's Available on 7 Continents
Jupiter at Opposition 2022, Closest in 59 Years
Be sure to observe Jupiter this week, during its finest apparition of a lifetime.
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Chinese Companies are Planning to Offer Space Tourism Flights by 2025
China hopes to send passengers to space by 2025 as part of their plan to secure a part of the burgeoning "space tourism" market
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Gravity Really Tangled up the Light From a Distant Quasar
Life can Thrive Around Even the Smallest Stars
By simulating the light of small stars, we now know life can survive on planets orbiting them.
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NASA's Juno To Skim the Surface of Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa
JWST's MIRI Issues, Newborn Quasar, Detecting Exoplanets with Lagrange Points
The Moon's Poles Have "Wandered" Over Billions of Years
Astronomers tracked the Moon's poles over billions of years.
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Musk Suggests That Starship Will Probably Make an Orbital Flight in November
Space Diamonds are Even Harder Than Earth Diamonds
Webb Scans a Nearby Brown Dwarf and Finds it has Clouds Made of Sand
An international collaboration has used data from Webb to characterize a brown dwarf, and found clouds of sand in its atmosphere!
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There's a Blob of Gas Orbiting Around the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
Axiom's Next Trip to the ISS Will Carry the First Saudi Woman in Space
The World's Ground Stations are Getting Ready to Watch a Spacecraft Crash Into an Asteroid Next Week!
On Monday, Sept. 26th, the DART mission will collide with an asteroid to test a method of planetary defense. The even will be hosted live around the world!
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Habitable Planets Will Most Likely be Cold, Dry "Pale Yellow Dots"
Webb Turns its Infrared Gaze on Mars
The first Webb images of Mars were just released by the ESA, revealing spectra from the planet's atmosphere and what Mars looks like in infrared light
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Neptune and Its Rings Glow in Webb Telescope's Portrait
It Appears That Enceladus is Even More Habitable Than we Thought
It takes a watery world to support life as we know it, but it also takes a special bit extra.
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Astronomy For Equity: Building Hope Through the Night Sky
Uh oh, There's a Problem With one of Webb's Science Instruments
InSight Heard Four Meteoroids Crash Into Mars
Should Low Earth Orbit be a protected environmental ecosystem?
Solar Orbiter Captures the First Ever Image of a Magnetic Solar Switchback on the Sun
A New Shepard Exploded. Fortunately, There Wasn't Anyone on Board
Astronomers Find a Sun-like Star Orbiting a Nearby Black Hole
Using data from the Gaia Observatory, a team of astronomers has detected a Sun-like star that co-orbits with a dormant black hole.
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Is Europe Building its Own Starship? Not Exactly
Mars Might Have Been Covered in Lakes in the Ancient Past
New research by an international team of scientists indicates that Mars may have had far more ancient lakes on its surface, which could have drastic implications for finding life.
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Satellites can now Measure the Thickness of Ice Sheets all Year Long
The First cry From a Brand new Baby Star
A new way to Discover Planets? Astronomers Detect an Exoplanet by Seeing its Trojan Belts
Astronomers demonstrate that you don't have to see a planet to discover it. You only need to see its Lagrange points.
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Blue Origin Explosion, CAPSTONE Problems, Space Diamonds
Can Astronomers Predict Which Stars Are About to Explode as Supernovae?
Saturn Might Have Torn a Moon Apart to Make its Rings
