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Space.com

Europe’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft will set out on an ambitious explorative tour of Jupiter’s moons next week. But the mission will only take the briefest glimpse of the potentially life-harboring moon Europa. Here’s why.

CNN

The Artemis II crew poses for an official portrait: NASA astronauts Christina Koch (left), Victor Glover (top, center) and Reid Wiseman (foreground) and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

Space.com

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows in stunning detail the wreckage of a cataclysmic supernova explosion. The supernova remnant, known as Cassiopeia A (Cas A), formed about 340 years ago from our perspective here on Earth.

Space.com

Observations of a distant red dwarf star indicate that it is surrounded by not one but two massive rings of gas and dust, with tantalizing hints that it is orbited by a Saturn-size planet. The red dwarf, known as 2MASS J04124068+2438157, is located …

CNN

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new stunning image of ice giant Uranus, with almost all its faint dusty rings on display. The image is representative of the telescope’s significant sensitivity, NASA said, …

IEEE Spectrum

This image of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument of the Perseverance rover on June 15, 2021, the 114th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. NASA …

EarthSky

As the black hole plows through intergalactic space, it compresses tenuous gas, sparking the birth of new stars and thereby forming a star bridge stretching between the black hole and its former galaxy. Image via HubbleSite/ ESA/ Leah Hustak (STScI).

Physics

April 7, 2023 • Physics 16, 56. Magnetic spin excitations can combine with photons to produce exotic particles that emit laser-like microwaves. Figure caption expand figure. B. M. Yao/Chinese Academy of Sciences. A coherent dance.

USA TODAY

The suits, built by Houston-based Axiom Space, will support the Artemis lunar missions beginning with Artemis III, set for launch in 2025. Artemis III will put humans on the moon’s south pole for the first time.

GenomeWeb

NEW YORK – Using ancient genome sequences for nearly two-dozen woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) going back 700,000 years, an international team led by investigators in Sweden has tallied the genetic changes that appear to have helped the woolly …