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Space.com

“Dreaming of a white Christmas” might never bring to mind the alien landscapes that appear at frigid corners of the Red Planet. But the space agency is enthused by it all. Its many missions over the past several decades reveal icy oddities on Mars, as well …

Space.com

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) in Germany set out to recreate the iconic image using nothing but the climate simulation and weather data from 1972. They didn’t just want …

BBC News

Many wondered whether this successor to the famed Hubble Space Telescope could actually live up to expectations. We had to wait a few months while its epic 6.5m primary mirror was unpacked and …

Space.com

If you’re looking for an awesome gift that’s free this year, just look to the night sky where the Christmas moon lines up with four bright planets in a celestial holiday treat this week. This Christmas (Dec. 25), the young crescent moon will shine with …

Phys.Org

With far less security in the food web than their dinosaur counterparts, mammals spent the late Cretaceous trying to gain a small, furry foothold in a landscape dominated by giant reptiles. Researchers found a wide diversity of mammal species, suggesting a …

Space.com

A rock glacier is similar to a traditional ice glacier, but it’s filled with far larger quantities of rocks and sand. That debris is commonly picked up when ice glaciers melt and refreeze at the base of mountains, where that rocky debris often gathers.

OPB News

“JWST was launched on Christmas day, and then was a present that took six months to unwrap,” said Jane Rigby, an astronomer at NASA and the Operations Project Scientist.

Canton Repository

The return to moon mission, Artemis I, launched Nov. 16, and the uncrewed Orion capsule splashed down Dec. 11. This successful test mission paves the way for astronauts to orbit the moon in 2024. NASA’s SpaceX Crew 3 returned in May; Crew 4 launched in …

Hindustan Times

Have you seen a star-studded image which resembles a human skull? If not, here is your chance. NASA has shared an image on its Instagram account showing a portion of the Rosette Nebula, which at first glance resembles a skull.

Quillette

Hakeem Oluseyi, then the space science education lead at NASA, speaking at an Earth Day event on April 20th, 2017, at Union Station in Washington, DC. Photo by NASA/Joel Kowsky.