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An artist’s impression of ESA’s JUICE spacecraft in orbit around the ocean moon Europa. Europe’s JUICE spacecraft will make two flybys at Jupiter’s moon Europa, which might host microbial life in its …

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“I’m outraged by this irresponsible and destabilizing action. With its long and storied history in human spaceflight, it is unthinkable that Russia would endanger not only the American and international partner astronauts on the ISS …

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An astrophotographer has snapped a stunning shot of an enormous wall of plasma falling down toward the solar surface at impossibly fast speeds after being spat out near the sun’s south pole. Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau …

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Tonight also marks the planet’s greatest separation from the sun in the night sky — an arrangement that astronomers call the “greatest elongation” — for its March to April evening apparition. (Your clenched fist held at arm’s length measures about 10 …

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Scientists have mapped the iconic Crab Nebula’s magnetic field in greater detail than ever before using NASA’s latest X-ray telescope. Located 6,500 light-years from Earth, the Crab Nebula is the remnant of a massive stellar explosion, or supernova, …

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“We are very clearly set on humans on Mars,” replied NASA astronaut and Artemis 2 commander Reid Wiseman, who explained the importance of the crew’s round-the-moon mission, and its place in the larger Artemis program.

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The Marinoan glaciation is is considered one of the most extreme ice ages Earth has experienced. “We called this ice age ‘Snowball Earth. We believed that Earth had frozen over entirely during this long ice age,” University of Cincinnati professor of …

BBC News

It’s being described as the most detailed ever map of the influence of dark matter through cosmic history. A telescope in Chile has traced the distribution of this mysterious stuff on a quarter of the sky and across almost 14 billion years of time.

The Planetary Society

At the heart of every space mission and cosmic discovery is public support for space exploration. Democracies depend on input from their citizens about how to prioritize their resources. The U.S. Congress is currently considering NASA’s 2024 budget …

Astronomy Magazine

From left to right: Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman (seated), Victor Glove, and Jeremy Hansen make up the Artemis 2 crew. NASA. If all goes to plan …