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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).

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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.

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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.

International Business Times

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

The Guardian - UK

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?

Space

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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NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab laying off 8% of its workforce

Budgetary issues have forced the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA's chief center for robotic planetary exploration, to reduce its workforce by about 8%.

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Lunar astronauts could potentially make hummus with moon-grown chickpeas

A team of researchers has grown chickpeas in simulated moondust for the first time.

Space

SpaceX targeting Feb. 14 for launch of Intuitive Machines IM-1 private moon mission

SpaceX is targeting Feb. 14 for the launch of Intuitive Machine's IM-1 mission, which aims to become the first private effort to soft-land on the moon.

The Guardian - US

Don’t shoot for it: shrinking moon sees hours-long quakes and landslides

As the moon’s core cools, it causes shriveling, creating ripples tens of meters high across its surface

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NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy probe heads back toward Earth after acing crucial engine burn

Thanks to a powerful engine burn on Feb. 3, NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy spacecraft is on its way back to Earth for a Christmas-time rendezvous this year.

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Asteroid 2024 BX1 fragments confirmed to be rare meteorites as old as the solar system itself

When asteroid 2024 BX1 exploded over Earth it littered the planet with rare meteorites that are similar in composition to the unspoiled building blocks of our planet.

Space

Jupiter's volcanic moon Io looks outstanding in these close flyby photos from NASA's Juno probe

During its second close rendezvous with Jupiter's volcanic moon, NASA's Juno spacecraft collected some amazing images of the scene.

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Virgin Galactic mothership loses alignment pin during space plane launch, FAA investigating

Virgin Galactic informed the FAA that the mothership of its space plane VSS Unity lost a piece of hardware on its most recent suborbital flight.

Evening Standard

Your horoscope for the whole of February

What's written in the stars for you this month?

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NASA exoplanet telescope discovers 'super-Earth' in its star's Goldilocks zone

NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has spotted a 'super-Earth' in the habitable zone of its red dwarf star, with indications it may have Earth-sized company.

Salon

Planets' striking gravitational dance

Exoplanets, or planets outside the solar system, show striking examples of resonance

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