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Five space exploration missions to look out for in 2023

It’s been an eventful year for space exploration, with successes including the completion of Nasa’s Artemis 1 mission (finally), the inauguration of the James Webb Space Telescope, and the completion of China’s Tiangong space station.

The Conversation

Birds could hold the secret to interstellar flight

Interstellar travel is primarily a problem of propulsion and — even more acute — power. Dynamic soaring could solve some of these problems

Inverse

10 times this year the Webb telescope blew us away with new images of our stunning universe

It is no exaggeration to say the James Webb Space Telescope represents a new era for modern astronomy. Let's have a look at images that have demonstrated the staggering power of this new window to the universe.

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10 times this year the Webb telescope blew us away with new images of our stunning universe

It is no exaggeration to say the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a new era for modern astronomy.

The Conversation

Is Planet Nine out there? This new telescope could finally settle the long-standing mystery

Astronomers can't agree whether a potential new planet exists, but the Vera Rubin Observatory could offer crucial evidence.

Inverse

Seven planet solar system in 'habitable range' viewed by James Webb telescope

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has viewed a system of seven planets that orbit the TRAPPIST-1 planet which are 39 light years from Earth and could be habitable

Daily Mirror

Two possible 'water world' exoplanets discovered by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer telescopes

Two planets outside the Solar System could feature Earth-like oceans, researchers say, though they may not be like anything humans are used to.

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'Rick and Morty' Season 6 Episode 10 release date, time, title, plot, and trailer for Adult Swim’s sci-fi show

Just in time for the holidays, the season finale is a Christmas episode. Here's everything we know about 'Rick and Morty' Season 6 Episode 10.

Inverse

Geminids: You need to see 2022’s best meteor shower this week

After a few minor showers, this meteor shower is ready to put on a show. The Geminids are one of the highest-volume meteor showers of the year.

Inverse

Tech & Science Daily podcast: Secrets of Solar System’s ‘ghostly glow’

Plus: Megalodon family shark tooth + Game Awards crashed!

Evening Standard

The solar system's strangest objects are unlocking its history

Odd objects in the solar system could unlock its mysteries.

Axios

NASA releases “extraordinary” Webb Telescope images of Saturn's most intriguing moon

The images show clouds in the atmosphere of Titan, a moon with a substantial atmosphere and lakes of hydrocarbons.

Inverse

Europe wants to send a 50-pound rover to a tiny, strange Solar System moon

With the MMX rover, the world is breaking new ground in terms of technology because never before has an exploration vehicle with wheels travelled on a small celestial body with only one-thousandth of the Earth’s gravitational pull.

Inverse

Never-before-seen details of distant planet spotted on NASA James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists have hailed "game-changing" new findings about a far-off exoplanet collected by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope which could help us understand more about other solar systems

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James Webb Space Telescope detects molecules transformed by sunlight in exoplanet's atmosphere

Astronomers detect molecules transformed by sunlight in the atmosphere of an alien planet outside our Solar System for the first time.

Inverse

Astronomers find a pristine meteorite from the dawn of the Solar System

Most meteorites are missing flight data. Not so with the Winchcombe meteorite, whose fireball awed hundreds of people in 2021 and revealed its ancient past.

Inverse

One unexpected Solar System moon could be key to finding alien life

Triton may be an ‘ocean world’, a moon that has a solid ice crust over a liquid water subsurface ocean, which extend the habitable zone to the Kuiper Belt, not just the inner solar system.

The Conversation

Mars: how we discovered two huge, unusual impact craters – and the secrets they unveil

Most of the worlds of our Solar System are pockmarked with impact craters. These bear testament to the violence of the early days of the Sun, when asteroids, comets and entire planets routinely collided with and annihilated each other.

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Inverse

Scientists figured out how to solve an ancient Martian mystery — with rocks found on Earth

Martian meteorites found their way to Earth. In turn, they bore a chemical that has the secret to how much water was on ancient Mars.

Inverse

Leonids: You need to see November's biggest meteor shower this week

The Leonids, made of debris from 55P/Tempel–Tuttle, become a storm once every 33 years or show. It won't happen this year, but still should put on a spectacular show.

GamesRadar

10 Games like No Man's Sky that are out of this world

Do you love exploring strange new worlds? These games like No Man's Sky might just be what you're looking for

The Independent UK

Study finds that stars and planets grow together

It had been previously thought that planets only form once a star has reached its final size.

Axios

Meteor showers rain clues about the solar system

They bring information about their parent asteroids and comets — and the solar system's history.

The Conversation

Mars: could life itself have made the planet uninhabitable?

Four billion years ago, the solar system was still young. Almost fully formed, its planets were starting to experience asteroid strikes a little less frequently. Our own planet could have become habitable as long as 3.9 billion years ago, but its primitive biosphere was much different than it is today. Life…

Salon

Scientists spot "planet killer" asteroid

The asteroid is almost one mile long, meaning that it would cause an extinction event if it hit Earth

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