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The Planetary Society

The Universe is a big, diverse place. The planets and moons we’ve observed so far have shown staggering variety, from frozen snowballs to volcanic hellscapes, gas giants to tiny moonlets. Given the diversity of planetary bodies, one could reason that …

Space.com

On Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse will come to North America. Roughly 11 years after the same type of solar eclipse crossed the U.S. Southwest on May 20, 2012, this one will be visible from a similar region, crossing eight U.S. …

The New York Times

As a mathematician, Luis A. Caffarelli of the University of Texas at Austin tries to answer questions that sound simple, even potentially useful: How does the shape of a piece of ice change as it melts? Can a smooth flow of water ever spin out of …

Space.com

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter made its 48th off-Earth flight on Tuesday (March 21). Ingenuity buzzed over the Martian landscape at a maximum altitude of around 39 feet (12 meters), observing potential science targets that could be studied by its …

Space.com

Less than a month after astronomers found satellite trails scarring many images snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope, a new paper is urging scientists to “fight tooth and nail” to protect the night sky against rising light pollution.

Space.com

Astrobiologists should examine space dust and other exoplanetary debris to search for the existence of life beyond Earth, a new study suggests. Up to 100,000 pieces of life-carrying dust particles could be making their way to Earth every year, …

Space.com

Engineers have created an intriguing concrete alternative using simulated Martian or lunar soil, potato starch and salt. The “space concrete” is twice as strong as conventional concrete, the researchers say. They hope the new material will eventually …

Space.com

On Mar. 27, a planetary parade made up of Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Uranus will march across the sky. At this particular time of the year, amateur astronomers are participating in the Messier Marathon. Originally conceived by the late comet …

Space.com

But not all jets are created equal — some are stronger and drastically change their surroundings by heating up the gas in their galaxies, stunting the galaxy’s growth. Others are weaker, referred to as radio-quiet …

CNN

As planets form around stars, gravitational interactions tend to kick out some of the small “leftovers,” such as comets and asteroids. “Comets preserve a snapshot of what the solar system looked like when …