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CNN

At the top of everyone’s list for the first Artemis crew is Reid Wiseman, a 47-year-old decorated naval aviator and test pilot who was first selected to be a NASA astronaut in 2009. Wiseman …

Space.com

On Saturday (Jan. 28) the moon will move in front of Uranus obstructing the view of the distant ice giant planet and causing it to disappear from the night sky in an arrangement that astronomers call a lunar occultation.

Space.com

In an image shared Jan. 25 by The University of Arizona (UA), what appears to be the face of an enormous Martian teddy bear — complete with two beady eyes, a button nose and an upturned mouth — grins at the camera of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) …

EarthSky

Click to animate. | This video, composed of 63 individual observations by Webb on October 18, 2022, shows the asteroid Chariklo passing in front of a background star (a stellar occultation). Webb used this technique to observe Chariklo’s rings.

U.S. News & World Report

By Joey Roulette. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The discovery of an asteroid the size of a small shipping truck mere days before it passed Earth on Thursday, albeit one that posed no threat to humans, highlights a blind spot in our ability to predict those …

Digital Trends

Since the James Webb Space Telescope launched in December 2021, astronomers and the public have been excited to see how powerful this new tool is, and how it has been able to see some of the most distant galaxies ever observed. However, as cutting-edge …

NPR

Scientists found an unexpected discovery on the surface of Mars: a formation resembling the face of a bear. A camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a photo of the formation on Dec. 12. The University of Arizona, which operates the camera …

San Francisco Chronicle

Observatories rest on a hillside at Chabot Space & Science Center on Friday, May 6, 2022, in Oakland, Calif. From right to left are the Leah, Rachel and Nellie observatories.

Canton Repository

Venus, Jupiter and Mars dazzling in the evening sky. We have quite a celestial show coming up this month! Not only do we have the brightest stars of the year …

Reuters

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) – The discovery of an asteroid the size of a small shipping truck mere days before it passed Earth on Thursday, albeit one that posed no threat to humans, highlights a blind spot in our ability to predict those that could …