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Space.com

This new release features astronaut Mike Mullane, who flew on board three space shuttle missions, using art that was created for his first flight by his son, Patrick.

Space.com

From now through mid-April, in the western evening twilight sky, the “Queen of the Night,” better known as the brilliant planet Venus, will help you to identify the normally hard-to-find planet Mercury. And along the way, Venus will have a striking …

Space.com

A new map of Mars shows the Red Planet in stunning detail, revealing a wealth of fascinating geological features as seen from orbit. The high-resolution map could help scientists answer a number of pressing questions about Mars including how it came to …

The New York Times

If you’re looking for space news in April, you won’t have to wait long. On Monday, NASA will introduce the four astronauts who will travel on the Artemis II mission. The Artemis program — a successor to the Apollo missions of the 1960s and ’70s — aims …

The Weather Channel

If there was ever a month to break out your sky-watching legs and explore the magical world of astronomy, April would be it! For starters, astronomers and sky-watchers around the world celebrate April as Global Astronomy Month!

The Weather Channel

The new model uses AI to analyse spacecraft measurements of the solar wind (an unrelenting stream of material from the Sun) and predict where an impending solar storm will strike, anywhere on Earth, with 30 minutes of advance warning.

Popular Mechanics

A gamma ray burst (GRB) is the most powerful form of explosion in the known universe. They are produced when massive stars die, right before they turn into black holes, and were originally discovered by accident when the U.S. was trying to ensure …

Popular Mechanics

The Earth’s magnetic field protects us, and our orbiting tech, from the worst effects of the Sun’s energetic rays. In a region called the South Atlantic Anomaly, however, the magnetic field is significantly weaker than over the rest of the planet.

KTVZ

By Jackie Wattles, CNN. Researchers in New York developed a virtual reality maze for mice in an attempt to demystify a question that’s been plaguing neuroscientists for decades: How are long-term memories stored? What they found surprised them.

WRAL.com

Astronomy has a long tradition of embracing April first with research papers presented alongside more serious ones on subjects like planetary seismology and recent discoveries via the James Web Telescope. Each has all the same markings including ISO …