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The Planetary Society

Mars Sample Return — NASA and ESA’s ambitious project to bring Martian samples to Earth for scientific study — is in the midst of an extensive review and revision period unique among modern planetary missions. Recent updates from NASA, …

Space.com

The discovery of the giant planet Halla suggests that planets close to their stars can survive the rapid expansion seen as they enter their end-of-life red giant phase. Comments (0). Astronomers have discovered a “forbidden planet” orbiting so close to …

Space.com

The active galaxies and the feeding supermassive black hole-powered quasars are seen as they were when the universe was less than one billion years old. a black hole appears as a red smudge in a telescope image. The quasar HSC J2236+0032 as seen by the …

Space.com

The results, from novel computer modeling methods, suggest that, billions of years ago, black holes may have been larger than scientists had thought. This is a potential breakthrough, because it could help researchers understand how supermassive black …

Space.com

NASA is soliciting the scientific community for ideas about instruments and experiments that could accompany Artemis 3 astronauts on their mission to the moon. In NASA’s call for deployable instruments, announced earlier this month, …

The New York Times

In time, researchers came to a startling realization about what had happened. Accelerated melting of the polar ice sheets and mountain glaciers had changed the way mass was distributed around the planet enough to influence its spin.

Space.com

The powerful space telescope imaged the gas giant planet and its infamous rings for the first time this month. Comments (0). a black and white picture of a ringed planet. An unprocessed image of Saturn produced by the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near …

Forbes

A meteor the size of a washing machine blazed a path across the sky in 2014 as the fireball rushed toward its final resting place on the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Such meteorites reach the surface of Earth almost daily, …

CBS News

Fears are brewing that an apocalypse is coming. But instead of burning buildings and utter chaos, there’s a monthslong global internet blackout. The concern comes amid recent solar storm data that has emerged, but is the current activity on the sun …

Phys.Org

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed, for the first time, starlight from two massive galaxies hosting actively growing black holes—quasars—seen less than a billion years after the Big Bang. A new study in Nature finds the …