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Space.com

NASA’s decision to pull the funding for the modest VERITAS mission to Venus, which was both on track and on budget, in order to accommodate other missions facing cost overruns has left the team members outraged and confused.

Space.com

Fortunately, dark matter does interact gravitationally, enabling researchers to infer the presence of dark matter by looking at its gravitational effects on ordinary matter “proxies.” In the new research, a team of scientists from …

Space.com

An extragalactic outburst whose light hurtled through the inner solar system last fall was 70 times brighter than any other such eruption that scientists have observed, researchers report. Radiation from the explosion — a gamma …

CNN

The Hubble Space Telescope captured these images of Jupiter. (From left) In November 2022, storms form a wave pattern. A January 2023 view shows the Great Red Spot, as the moon Ganymede transits (lower right).

The Verge

But rather than jubilation, the mood in the planetary science community is grim, as funding has been gutted for a key Venus mission that was poised to answer some of the biggest questions about the planet and its volcanic activity.

WIRED

Lunar astronauts will need to synchronize their watches on future missions. But on a rock that rotates much slower than Earth, time gets weird fast.

Space.com

The moon is strewn with minuscule beads of glass that have formed over billions of years as soil ejected during asteroid impacts cools and falls back to the lunar surface. An analysis of lunar samples delivered to Earth by China’s Chang’e-5 probe has …

CBS News

A large asteroid zipped past Earth last week, in a relatively rare event that astronomers described as one “very close encounter” with our planet. The space rock, called 2023 DZ2 by NASA, reached its shortest distance from the atmosphere on Friday and …

Astronomy Magazine

Trappist-1 is an intriguing system that consists of a red dwarf star tightly orbited by at least seven rocky exoplanets. New research, made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope, shows that the innermost planet, TRAPPIST-1 b, is likely too hot to …

Phys.Org

They have detailed the findings in a study titled “Whale shark rhodopsin adapted to deep-sea lifestyle by a substitution associated with human disease,” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.