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NASA's mini rover team is packed for lunar journey

Three small NASA rovers that will explore the lunar surface as a team have been packed up and shipped from the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, marking completion of the first leg of the robots' ...

Is methane the key to finding life on other worlds?

How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we don't know it? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address ...

Scientists spot candidate for speediest exoplanet system

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, the pair sets a new record for the fastest-moving exoplanet system, nearly double our solar system's ...

Earth from space: Snow-capped Swiss Alps

The ranges and valleys of the Swiss Alps stand out in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission in December 2024.

NASA CubeSat finds new radiation belts after May 2024 solar storm

The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged particles from the sun rocked the planet. Brilliant auroras engulfed the skies, and some GPS communications ...

Lightning strikes link weather on Earth and weather in space

There are trillions of charged particles—protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter—whizzing around above your head at any given time. These high-energy particles, which can travel at close to the speed ...

En route to Jupiter, Europa Clipper captures images of stars

Three months after its launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency's Europa Clipper has another 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion kilometers) to go before it reaches Jupiter's orbit in 2030 to take close-up ...

Burrowing mole-bot could characterize other planets' soil

Burrowing under soil opens up a whole new world, especially when that soil is on other planets. Getting under the top layer of regolith on a world such as Mars could give access to a world still extant with life, whereas, ...

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Astronomy
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Astrobiology
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Planetary Sciences
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Astronomy
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Astrobiology
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Planetary Sciences
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Astrobiology
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Planetary Sciences
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Space Exploration
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Planetary Sciences
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Planetary Sciences
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Astrobiology
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Astrobiology
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Astrobiology
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Astrobiology
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