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The Planetary Society

VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio science, InSAR, Topography And Spectroscopy) is a proposed NASA mission to send an orbiter to Venus to study its surface and unlock the secrets of its past and present. The mission would map Venus’ surface to determine …

Space.com

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has drilled its 16th sample from an intriguing rock, inaugurating its latest assignment that has it exploring the top of an ancient river delta. The newly collected sample, the size of a piece of classroom chalk, …

Space.com

On Monday (April 3), NASA announced the crewmembers of the Artemis 2 moon mission, which will launch astronauts to the moon for the first time since the final Apollo mission in 1972. NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman and …

Space.com

Astronomers have spotted two quasars lighting up the mutual heart of colliding galaxies at a period in the universe’s early history dubbed “cosmic noon.” The energetic quasars, or active galactic nuclei (AGNs), are powered by feeding supermassive black …

Space.com

Medieval tomes that recorded when the moon ranged in color from blood-red to pitch-black during lunar eclipses may help reveal vital clues about the volcanic eruptions that may have triggered the Little Ice Age in Europe, a new study finds.

Spaceflight Now

Reid Wiseman, a veteran U.S. Navy test pilot and former chief of NASA’s astronaut corps, will lead the four-person crew assigned to the Artemis 2 mission to carry people to the vicinity of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

Space.com

An artist’s impression of the molecular soup in the Perseus Cloud that contains compounds that are. Dust and gas in the star-forming Perseus Cloud contains molecules that are precursors of life.

Space.com

The 4:48 a.m. Beijing Time launch from China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center located in the Gobi Desert, Inner Mongolia, represented the first time a liquid fueled rocket has been launched into orbit by a Chinese aerospace …

CNN

April’s full moon, known as the pink moon, is named after the bright pink wildflower Phlox subulata that blooms in the spring. Batard Patrick/ABACA/Shutterstock.

The Washington Post

A new study shows an ancient ice sheet retreated at a startling 2,000 feet per day, shedding light on how quickly ice in Antarctica could melt and raise global sea levels in today’s warming world.