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Scientists discover potentially habitable exoplanet near Earth

Exciting discovery in space: Astronomers find a super earth in a habitable zone, potentially hosting life. NASA's new mission to study Earth's oceans and a...

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Relive SpaceX Starship's epic 2nd test flight in newly released NASA footage (video)

Newly released NASA footage shows the second test flight of SpaceX's giant Starship rocket in dramatic detail.

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Donated Renaissance-era astronomy book surprises university with hidden text

Two astronomy books from the Renaissance have found their way to a new home, where students will try to read a possible hidden text within one of them.

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Did monster black holes or galaxies come first? The James Webb Space Telescope may have a surprise answer

Observations of bright galaxies in the early universe could indicate that black holes were driving star formation and galaxy growth just 50 million years after the Big Bang.

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NASA's Juno probe sees active volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io (images)

NASA's Juno spacecraft has seen Jupiter's volcanic moon Io like never before, catching active eruptions, lava flows, and a side to the solar system's most volcanic body not seen in 35 years.

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NASA's Voyager 1 probe is malfunctioning in deep space due to a critical memory error

Due to an unexpected error in the Flight Data Subsystem of the Voyager 1, NASA's longest-operating probe is no longer able to provide telemetry data needed for basic control of the spacecraft.

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'Martian' sunspot 15 times wider than Earth could soon bombard us with solar flares (photo & video)

A sunspot so big it was seen from the surface of Mars last week has now turned to face Earth, bringing an increased chance of unsettled space weather with Earth in the firing line.

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Ax-3 astronauts leave precious parting gift behind for ISS crew: peanut butter

SpaceX astronauts with Axiom Space decided to leave behind a special snack for the International Space Station crew, shortly after National Peanut Butter Day in the United States.

Space

China's Chang'e-5 moon samples contain 'perplexing combination' of minerals

China's Chang'e-5 moon samples are giving scientists new insights into the history of our moon.

Space

Hidden moon may hold together rings of strange comet-like object between Jupiter and Neptune

A little moonlet, too small to be seen from Earth, could be playing cosmic sheepdog by shaping the thin rings around the distant minor planet Chariklo, according to new computer simulations.

Space

New Moon research illuminates its past

The Moon's craters tell a violent history. The Chinese lunar mission Chang'e has revealed new lunar minerals

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Watch private Ax-3 astronauts return to Earth in SpaceX capsule on Feb. 9 (video)

The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying the four astronauts of the private Ax-3 mission is scheduled to splash down on Friday morning (Feb. 9).

Space

NASA climate satellite blasts off to survey oceans and atmosphere of a warming Earth

NASA's newest climate satellite, Pace, will survey the world's oceans and atmosphere in unprecedented detail.

The Hindu

SpaceX launches NASA's PACE satellite to study Earth's oceans, air and climate (video)

NASA's PACE ocean-monitoring satellite, which the Trump administration tried to cancel four times, launched to orbit today (Feb. 8) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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Upcoming solar maximum may help solve the sun's gamma-ray puzzle

The upcoming solar maximum may help scientists solve the puzzle of why the sun's poles emitted ten times more high-energy radiation than expected during the last peak in activity.

Space

Surprise! Baby exoplanets might look like Smarties candies rather than spheres

Infant exoplanets may not be spherical as astronomers have always assumed. Instead, they may be oblate spheroids, like the 'Smarties' candy found in Europe.

Space

New film 'Spacewoman' to celebrate NASA's Eileen Collins, 1st woman space commander and pilot

NASA astronaut Eileen Collins will be featured in "Spacewoman", a documentary coming in 2025 about the first female space commander and pilot.

Salon

NASA lays off 530 workers at JPL

A lack of Congressional appropriations has forced NASA to make cuts, putting missions to Mars and elsewhere at risk

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Life On 'Death Star'? Saturn Moon Mimas Has Hidden Ocean

Saturn's small moon Mimas seems an unlikely suspect in the hunt for life in Earth's backyard -- it is probably best known for looking like the "Death Star" in the Star Wars films.

The Guardian - UK

Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ moon has hidden ocean under its crust, say scientists

Calculations suggest a 45-mile-deep internal body of water lurks beneath Mimas’s 15-mile-thick icy shell

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Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas may have an ocean scientists never believed could exist

Astronomers have made a shock discovery that Saturn's moon Mimas seems to have a liquid ocean beneath its surface, potentially redefining our search for life on alien moons.

Space

Big, dead European satellite will crash back to Earth this month

The European Space Agency's defunct ERS-2 spacecraft will fall into Earth's atmosphere in a week or so, in a death dive that its handlers will monitor carefully.

Space

Humans on Mars could conduct far better science than any machine

NASA's moon-to-Mars strategy identifies science as one of three pillars upon which the agency's quest for a sustained human presence throughout the solar system is built.

Space

What's the forecast for Neptune-like exoplanets: Cloudy or clear?

Do the Milky Way's most common planets, mini-Neptunes, have atmospheres filled with opaque clouds or a more transparent haze?

The Hindu

Moon cargo like human ashes, drink containers spark legal debate

Unconventional plans to exploit the moon, including using it for human ashes and sports-drink containers, raise concerns about oversight and legal questions.

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