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Space.com

During the upcoming weeks, a newly-discovered comet will be making a relatively close approach to the Earth. On Feb. 1, comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will pass to within 28 million miles (42 million km) of our planet, its first approach in 50,000 years.

Space.com

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is wrapping up its prime mission on the Red Planet. The car-sized Perseverance rover landed on the floor of Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021, kicking off an ambitious surface mission designed to last one Red Planet …

Space.com

A newly emerged sunspot is making its presence known, unleashing a powerful X-class solar flare that triggered shortwave radio blackouts across the South Pacific. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a massive solar flare on Thursday (Jan 5) at …

Space.com

JWST’s specialized eyes on the universe recently revealed yet another surprise —multiple galaxies that look like our Milky Way, but from between 8 and 11 billion years in the past when the universe was much younger.

Spaceflight Now

The 9-t0n, 16.5-foot-wide (5-meter) spacecraft journeyed from U.S. Naval Base San Diego to Kennedy Space Center by road inside a climate-controlled transport container. NASA said the Orion crew module arrived at Kennedy on Dec. 30.

WAAY

This year promises to be out of this world when it comes to space missions, launches and the next steps in cosmic exploration. In 2023, NASA will kick off a trek to a metal world, a spacecraft will drop off unprecedented asteroid samples on Earth, …

U.S. News & World Report

In a new study that compared the DNA of 62 animals, researchers found that while humans appear to have the genes for a full coat of body hair, evolution has disabled that DNA. The same thing has happened in mammals at least nine times, including in the …

Phys.Org

If you had the grooming habits of a Neanderthal, perhaps it’s a good thing your nose wasn’t as sensitive to urine and sweat as a modern human’s. And if you lived the hunting and gathering lifestyle of a Denisovan on the Asian steppes, your strong nose …

UPI.com

Kshatriya said that although the Artemis II mission is not expected to be launched until at least 2024, the space agency will conduct significant work toward space exploration throughout next year, including testing the Orion capsule and analyzing data …

Space Ref

Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) has announced the successful launch of Europe’s first solar sail mission aboard SpaceX Transporter-6. The 6U nanosatellite nicknamed ‘Alpha’ was manufactured for France’s Gama. It is one of four satellites, …