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Space.com

Scientists can’t yet explain how the moon generated enough magma to create the Earth-like domes in the moon’s Ocean of Storms region, given that lunar geology lacks two key ingredients: plate tectonics and substantial water.

Space.com

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket notched its 200th successful orbital mission on Thursday (Feb. 2), and the company marked the milestone by sharing some stunning photos of the spaceflight action. A Falcon 9 lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in …

Space.com

Globular clusters like this one are home to tens of thousands to millions of stars, all tightly bound by mutual gravitational attraction. These dense stellar populations give globular clusters a roughly spherical shape.

Space.com

C/2022 E3 is the GOAT when it comes to comets in 2023, but at the weekend it encounters the Goat Star, Capella.

Astronomy Magazine

The OIII emission nebula Strottner-Drechsler-Sainty Object 1 appears next to M31 as a banded teal arc in this HOLRGB image. Marcel Drechsler/Xavier Strottner/Yann Sainty.

Smithsonian

Researchers have created a new form of ice with a density very similar to that of water, according to a study published Thursday in Science. By shaking a jar of ice and metal balls at extremely cold temperatures, the team created a white powdery ice …

CNET

A team led by Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) scientist Diana Kossakowski discovered the exoplanet orbiting red dwarf star Wolf 1069. Exoplanets are planets located outside our solar system. The researchers have had a study …

Futurity: Research News

A 319-million-year-old fossilized fish skull holds the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain. Scientists pulled the skull from a coal mine in England more than a century ago. The brain and its cranial nerves are roughly an inch long and …

ABC News

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the total count at a record-breaking 92. That’s more than any other planet in our solar system. Saturn …

CNET

Astronomer Scott Sheppard from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC, reported observations of the system over the last two years that reveal a dozen new moons. The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center has quietly …