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Space.com

The icy volcanism of Pluto’s large moon Charon and a belt of fractures across its surface may have been caused by a subsurface frozen ocean bursting through a thin ice shell. New models suggest that when …

Space.com

Observations of the tiny Sparkler dwarf galaxy have revealed it sits embedded in a system of ancient star clusters and is greedily feasting on its smaller galactic companions to grow. This means the galaxy, which was discovered in the first data from …

Space.com

A major solar flare erupted from the sun Saturday (Feb. 11), spawning a radio blackout for parts of Earth and setting the stage for more flares to come. The huge solar flare, which registered as a powerful X1.1-class event on the scale used for such …

Spaceflight Now

Watch a replay of our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 5-4 mission at 12:10 a.m. EST (0510 GMT) on Feb. 12 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.

Engadget

The diverse cadre of aspirational space travelers included Sally Ride and Ron McNair. The space shuttle Atlantis STS-135 lifts off from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy. Scott …

Livescience.com

Biologists aren’t in full agreement about exactly where the first life on Earth appeared. It might have evolved at the bottom of the ocean, in shallow rock pools or from building blocks delivered by asteroid impacts — or maybe all of the above.

EarthSky

Ocean worlds are common in our solar system. There’s Earth, of course. But scientists also know or suspect that some dwarf planets, and moons of major planets, have subsurface oceans hidden beneath crusts of ice. On January 31, 2023, …

Q13 FOX (Seattle)

As Orion began its closest approach to the moon yet, NASA shared live views of the moon and Earth as seen from the Artemis I spacecraft. Orbiting some 238,855 miles away from Earth …

CNET

An artist’s reconstruction of Kumimanu fordycei and Petradyptes stonehousei. Simone Giovanardi. While searching through the beachy boulders of New Zealand’s South Island, a crew of international scientists …

EarthSky

Venus and Jupiter are the two brightest planets visible from Earth. And – throughout February 2023 and into March – you can easily spot dazzling Venus and bold Jupiter near each other, in the west after sunset. Venus is the brighter world. Start looking …