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CNN

In the past year, a tiny helicopter flew on Mars, a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid and the James Webb Space Telescope revealed dazzling new insights about the universe. Beginning decades ago as ideas that …

CNN

The full moon is considered a micromoon because it appears slightly smaller than normal in our sky due to its distant location in orbit around Earth right now, according to EarthSky. January’s full moon was also a micromoon.

EarthSky

And now, it may help to answer one of the biggest questions of all: Are we alone in the universe? An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of Toronto, has developed a new machine learning algorithm for just that task. The …

Space.com

The Tarantula Nebula houses the hottest and most massive stars known, making it the “perfect natural laboratory in which to test out theories of star formation and evolution,” European Space Agency representatives said in a statement.

Space.com

SpaceX plans to launch a commercial communications satellite to orbit on Sunday (Feb. 5), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Amazonas Nexus satellite for the Spanish company Hispasat is scheduled to lift off from Cape …

Nature.com

By means of scanning tunneling microscopy, density functional theory calculations and photoemission spectroscopy, we demonstrate that these molecules form a self-limited highly ordered and defect-free two-dimensional single-layer film of micrometer-size, …

Mashable

Wolf 1069 b is around the same mass of Earth. · Even rarer, Wolf 1069 b orbits in its solar system’s “habitable zone,” meaning a special region where liquid water can exist on the surface.

NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

A green comet discovered in March 2022 will make its closest approach to Earth by month’s end. Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) in space. The comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was first discovered by astronomers at California’s Zwicky Transient Facility when it was passing …

The Bakersfield Californian

How did observing comet ZTF (C/2022 E3) turn out for you? Comet ZTF passed closest to Earth on Thursday, Feb. 2, at a distance of 26 million miles. Comets are notoriously unpredictable in the amount of the gas and dust that they will eject as they warm …

VOA Learning English

NASA and its international partners continuously search the skies for what scientists call near-Earth objects. Such objects include asteroids and comets that come within 50 million kilometers of Earth’s orbit. The American space agency NASA …