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Space.com

1. Webb as greatest breakthrough; 2. Pillars of Creation; 3. Exoplanet image; 4. Phantom Galaxy; 5. Wolf-Rayet star ripples; 6. Most distant galaxies; 7. Exoplanet atmosphere; 8. Titan’s clouds; 9. Southern Ring Nebula; 10. Brown dwarf with sand clouds; 11 …

Space.com

NASA might use a SpaceX spacecraft to rescue three space station crew members depending on a leaky Soyuz to get home, a report suggests. The Soyuz spacecraft on the International Space Station suffered a severe …

Space.com

Russian space officials will make their “final decision” in January about whether to let a leaky Soyuz bear its crew back to Earth, according to state media. The Russian federal space agenc Roscosmos …

Space.com

This was the 11th flight for the Falcon 9 first stage that flew on Wednesday. According to SpaceX, the booster has launched several satellites, five previous Starlink missions and has flown two private astronaut crews to space. Check out some amazing …

Phys.Org

New technology is providing better optical sensors, which are important for electronics, including devices that analyze chemicals using light. “We’ve built the lowest loss whispering gallery mode microresonator out there for the longwave …

EarthSky

The two new planets – GJ 1002b and GJ 1002c – orbit the red dwarf star GJ 1002, less than 16 light-years from Earth. That is very close in terms of stellar distances. Both planets have masses similar to Earth and orbit within the star’s habitable zone.

Space.com

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all currently visible simultaneously with the naked eye. The two outermost planets, Uranus and Neptune, can meanwhile be observed with binoculars or a telescope.

Phys.Org

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite launched into Earth orbit on Friday, Dec. 16, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in central California, and engineers are working to prepare the mission to begin measuring the height of water on …

Livescience.com

Earth core structure illustrated with geological layers according to scale. Our planet revealed some amazing secrets in 2022. (Image credit: Johan Swanepoel/Alamy Stock Photo).

Popular Science

The night sky doesn’t take a holiday. The moon will pass in front of the planet Uranus, creating a lunar occultation, which is similar to an eclipse. Uranus will disappear behind the unilluminated side of the moon and reappear from behind the illuminated …