Giant, jagged 'ice spikes' cover Jupiter's moon Europa, new study suggests
If you're planning a trip to Jupiter's moon Europa, be prepared for a rough landing.
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How are planets formed?
How did the Solar System's planets come to be? The leading theory is something known as the "protoplanet hypothesis", which essentially says that very small objects stuck to each other and grew bigger and bigger—big enough ...
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Boeing won't fix leaky Starliner before flying first crew to ISS
Boeing is set to launch its first crewed space mission in June without fixing a small helium gas leak on its troubled Starliner spaceship, officials said Friday.
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'Mini psyches' give insights into mysterious metal-rich near-Earth asteroids
Metal-rich near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, are rare, but their presence provides the intriguing possibility that iron, nickel and cobalt could someday be mined for use on Earth or in Space.
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Oct 1, 2021
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Anxiety abounds at NASA as Mars landing day arrives
A NASA spacecraft's six-month journey to Mars neared its dramatic grand finale Monday in what scientists and engineers hoped would be a soft precision landing on flat red plains.
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Nov 26, 2018
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New moon: China to launch lunar lighting in outer space
China is planning to launch its own 'artificial moon' by 2020 to replace streetlamps and lower electricity costs in urban areas, state media reported Friday.
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NASA releases Webb images of Jupiter
On the heels of Tuesday's release of the first images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, data from the telescope's commissioning period is now being released on the Space Telescope Science Institute's Mikulski Archive ...
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Japan moon probe survives second lunar night
Japan's moon lander woke up after unexpectedly surviving a second frigid, two-week lunar night and transmitted new images back to Earth, the country's space agency said Thursday.
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Mar 28, 2024
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Rosetta comet orbiter films deep-space landslide
Landslides are not unique to Earth, researchers revealed on Tuesday.
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Mar 21, 2017
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Webb telescope captures 'breathtaking' images of Orion Nebula
The wall of dense gas and dust resembles a massive winged creature, its glowing maw lit by a bright star as it soars through cosmic filaments.
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