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People are finding more and more pieces of downed space junk here on Earth. Over the years, some recovered wreckage from fallen rocket bodies and spacecraft has been hauled to research facilities for intensive scrutiny.

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More broadly, the shift in Intuitive Machines’ landing date adds more uncertainty as to when the first privately funded U.S. moon lander will touch down on the surface, as at least one other company’s mission should also lift off early in 2023.

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Astronomers have captured a direct image of a nearby brown dwarf, an astronomical body larger than a planet but not big enough to initiate the internal nuclear fusion that powers a star. For this reason …

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The European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft captured a stunning new view of the Red Planet’s complex surface geology. The new image, taken using the orbiter’s High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), focuses …

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Through the combined powers of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and nature’s own magnifying tool, gravitational lenses, astronomers can observe the earliest stages of galaxy formation in a time when the universe was less than 1 billion years old.

CNN

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this portrait of Jupiter in 2017. M.H. Wong/I. de Pater (UC Berkeley) et al./M. Zamani/AURA/NSF/NOIRLab/ …

CBS News

“Arctic sea ice decline is among the most obvious evidence of global warming from the past several decades,” Pengfei Zhang, the study’s lead author and assistant research professor of atmospheric science at Penn State University, said in a statement.

CNN

“Arctic sea ice decline is among the most obvious evidence of global warming from the past several decades,” Pengfei Zhang, the study’s lead author and assistant research professor of atmospheric science at Penn State University, said in a statement.

CNN

Researchers have detected a previously unknown layer of partially molten rock beneath Earth’s crust. The discovery could help scientists learn more about the movements of Earth’s tectonic plates, which not only create mountains and earthquakes, but …

EarthSky

Artist’s concept of the newly discovered smallest main-belt asteroid yet, from the Webb space telescope. European astronomers said on Monday they’ve used the Webb to detect it. It’s about 300 to 650 feet (100 to 200-meters) across, roughly the size of …