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In 2023, NASA will kick off a trek to a metal world, a spacecraft will drop off unprecedented asteroid samples on Earth, a historic moon mission will get its crew, and several new commercial rockets could make their launch debut.

Space.com

Planetary scientists, however, are particularly eager for the science will come from future crewed Artemis missions and complementary robotic explorers. At the 2022 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in December, lunar scientists shared some of the …

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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson claims that the U.S. is in a space race with China which could see Beijing attempt to make territorial claims to parts of the moon. Both China and the United States have …

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NASA closed out 2022 with a bang. The completion of the space agency’s Artemis 1 mission, the successful first launch of its new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the return of the uncrewed Orion capsule after its trip around the moon, put a nice …

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A massive volcanic eruption has been spotted emerging from Jupiter’s moon Io. The eruption was observed in the Fall of 2022 using the Io Input/Output observatory (IoIO) by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) senior scientist Jeff Morgenthaler.

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The new year has gotten off to a promising start for amateur and professional astronomers with January 2023 proving to be an excellent time to observe the solar system’s planets over Earth as five are currently visible to the naked eye.

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But spread throughout the universe are rogue stars that remain gravitationally untethered to others, wandering endlessly in the vastness of space. Although the light from these stars, which is known as intracluster light, was first discovered …

EurekAlert

image: Under the previous model (top), an odor would activate an increasing number of olfactory sensory neurons as it’s concentration rose. The new findings (bottom) showed that the activity of the most sensitive neurons fell off as others joined. view …

Phys.Org

New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars—elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks—at a time when the universe was a mere 25% of its …

USA TODAY

NEO Surveyor is a new space telescope made to advance NASA’s planetary defense efforts by finding near-Earth objects, or NEOs, that make their way into Earth’s orbital neighborhood and are capable of causing significant damage.