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On Feb. 18, 2021, a rocket-powered sky crane lowered the car-sized Perseverance and its tiny ridealong partner, the Ingenuity helicopter, to the floor of Mars’ Jezero Crater, then flew off to crash-land a safe distance away.

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A robotic Russian cargo ship stricken by a coolant leak undocked from the International Space Station late Friday (Feb.17) while a cosmonaut snapped photos of it looking for signs of damage. The …

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A massive solar flare erupted from the sun on Friday (Feb. 17) as the Earth was under a geomagnetic storm watch from flares earlier in the week. The huge solar flare, which registered as a powerful X2.2 sun storm, occurred began at 2:38 p.m. EST (1938 …

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Astronomers have discovered new auroras over Jupiter’s four largest moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, observable at visible wavelengths. The new auroras reveal in greater detail the composition of the thin atmospheres of these Jovian moons, …

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Russian cosmonauts will try to take pictures of the location where coolant leaked out of a Russian Progress cargo ship earlier this month when the supply freighter departs the International Space Station Friday night, as scheduled, to head for a …

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The comet C/2022 A2 (Pan-STARRS) will pass close by the sun on Sunday (Feb. 19), making its closest approach, or perihelion, when it will briefly be visible in the evening sky. This will be its first and final visit to the sun for the comet as the star’s …

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A stream of solar plasma arrived at Earth last night (Feb. 16), supercharging the atmosphere with particles from the solar wind that triggered rare red aurora displays across vast portions of Canada, northern U.S. and Europe. And space weather forecasters …

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Leonardo da Vinci’s centuries-old sketches reveal he may have understood key aspects of gravity long before Galileo, Newton and Einstein. A recent study from the California Institute of Technology examined diagrams in da …

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The first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft remains set for later this spring, NASA and Boeing officials said Friday, though a target launch date has yet to be determined.

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This asteroid, which recently sped past Earth, has caught the attention of NASA astronomers for its bizarre long shape. The space rock — which has perhaps whizzed by to set the record straight that not all asteroids are vaguely ball-like — is more than …