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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS photobombs SOHO spacecraft during powerful solar flare (video)

The SOHO spacecraft captured amazing imagery of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) zooming near the sun as the star unleashed a powerful X flare.

Space

32 things on Mars that look like they shouldn't be there

The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface. Here are some of the most baffling.

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SpaceX rocket launches Europe's Hera planetary defense probe to visit asteroid smacked by NASA

Hera launched Oct. 7 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, on a mission to study the asteroid that NASA's DART spacecraft smashed into in September 2022.

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Europe's Asteroid Mission Hera Launches Despite Hurricane

Europe's Hera probe launched Monday on a mission to inspect the damage done by a NASA spacecraft when it smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary defences.

International Business Times

European space mission to examine Nasa asteroid impact site

Hera to measure Dimorphos space rock that Dart probe deliberately hit

The Guardian - UK

Hera Spacecraft To Probe Asteroid Deflected By Defence Test

Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when it smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary defences.

International Business Times

James Webb Space Telescope finds supernova 'Hope' that could finally resolve major astronomy debate

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a distant cosmic explosion that erupted in the early universe called "supernova Hope" that could help resolve lingering "Hubble trouble."

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The earliest galaxies formed amazingly fast after the Big Bang. Do they break the universe or change its age?

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope built to date. Since it was launched in December 2021 it has provided groundbreaking insights. These include discovering the earliest and most distant known galaxies, which existed just 300 million years after the Big Bang.

The Conversation

BepiColombo spacecraft's flyby of Mercury begins unraveling the planet's magnetic mystery

The secrets of Mercury's strange magnetic bubble are gradually being unlocked by the BepiColombo spacecraft as it makes its rapid flybys of the world.

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The ESA’s Hera mission takes flight toward the asteroid deflected by NASA’s DART probe two years ago

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will set off from Cape Canaveral on 7 October on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It will travel several hundred million kilometres to reach the double asteroid Didymos in autumn 2026.

The Conversation

Arizona School Choice Program Comes Under Bureaucratic Attack

Families like guiding their kids’ education, but the governor and state attorney general disagree.

Reason

32 alien planets that really exist

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some of the strangest exoplanets that scientists have discovered so far.

LiveScience

European twin satellite mission bids to create total solar eclipse on demand

One craft will block the view of the sun from the other to deepen understanding of solar disruptions on terrestrial technology

The Guardian - UK

Hubble Space Telescope spies a spiral galaxy in a cosmic 'clock'

A dazzling new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a bright spiral galaxy on a diagonal tilt, resembling a pendulum swinging back and forth through space.

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Europe will launch a satellite in 2027 just to watch it burn

The European Space Agency plans to launch a satellite called DRACO in 2027, then study how it breaks up during its fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere.

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ESA Opens Lunar Simulation Facility For Astronaut Training

ESA unveils LUNA lunar simulation facility in Germany to train astronauts for future moon missions, replicating lunar conditions with volcanic rock and low...

The Independent UK

Though it's not the moon yet, it's the next best thing for European astronauts

It will be years before the European Space Agency can send one of its astronauts to the moon, but the agency says it’s time to start practicing as it opened a facility in Germany that will let astronauts train in conditions like those on the lunar surface

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Orion spacecraft can shield Artemis astronauts from deep-space radiation, study shows

Data from NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission has provided valuable space radiation measurements, which validate spacecraft performance and will help guide deep-space human spaceflight.

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Europe's Hera probe to launch Oct. 7 to inspect asteroid NASA smacked in 2022

Europe's Hera mission to the asteroid Dimorphos, which NASA's DART probe hit in September 2022, has arrived at its launch site in Florida ahead of its planned Oct. 7 liftoff.

The Independent UK

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites wreak havoc in Earth’s orbit, blocking deep space observations, scientists say

New Starlink satellites’ radiation leaks are 30 times as large as those emitted by older satellites, scientists discover

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Europe's Mars 'fetch rover' nails sample pick-up test in the field (video)

Europe's Mars Sample Fetch Rover showcased its sample-picking skills in field tests for the first time this month.

Space

Jupiter-bound JUICE probe snaps photo of Earth, the moon and Uranus

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission photographed the Earth, moon and Uranus as it heads toward Venus for a gravity assist next year.

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James Webb Space Telescope witnesses a 'smiling' galactic collision (images)

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a collision between two galaxies that appears to have created a beaming smile in space.

Space

Magnetic mystery at Mercury revealed by BepiColombo probe (video)

The BepiColombo probe's flybys of Mercury have revealed just how sharply and rapidly the planet's local environment changes in response to the solar wind.

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Best-ever 'Cloud Atlas' of Mars showcases stunning cloud patterns (photos)

The most comprehensive map of clouds on Mars includes a variety of cloud patterns, including some that are unlike anything seen on Earth.

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