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Space.com

Telescopes with apertures of 16 inches are technically considered quite large for amateur astronomers. With a telescope of this size, observers will be able to image and track activity in the atmospheres of both planets. This activity …

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India is gearing up for its first-ever mission to study the sun, expected to launch in early September. The observatory, called Aditya-L1 (“Aditya” means “sun” in Sanskrit), has arrived at its launch site on the island of Sriharikota, on India’s east …

CNN

Each year, thousands visit his mummy contained in a special cold cell at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy. A new study of ancient DNA extracted from Ötzi’s pelvis suggests he still has …

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The nation’s Luna-25 mission — its first moon effort since Luna-24 in 1976, when Russia was part of the Soviet Union — successfully reached lunar orbit, the Russian space agency Roscosmos announced today (Aug. 16). And the spacecraft appears to be in good …

Space.com

Meanwhile, Russia is making its first visit to the moon since 1976, when its Soviet-era sample return mission dubbed Luna-24 took place. Luna-25 launched on Aug. 10 and, having taken a more direct route to the moon, could make a landing attempt as soon as …

Space.com

Both launches will feature rocket landings: SpaceX plans to bring each Falcon 9 first stage down on a drone ship at sea not long after liftoff. It will be the 13th and 15th launches and …

EarthSky

| NASA’s Curiosity rover first saw these hexagonal mud cracks at a location called Pontours in 2021. The hexagonal patterns, outlined in red on the right for clarity, are evidence of cyclic wet-dry periods over long periods of time on ancient Mars. The now …

Spaceflight Now

The launch tower supporting the first three Artemis moon missions was back on the move for the first time Wednesday after more than half a year of repairs and upgrades. NASA’s 380-foot-tall mobile launcher (ML1) began making its way from its parking …

The New York Times

A lifelike illustration of a birdlike dinosaur with feathers and scales rests on a tree branch. An artist’s life reconstruction of Venetoraptor gassenae, a Triassic lagerpetid, a group of animals whose name means “ …

The Atlantic

Deep inside a black hole, general relativity isn’t enough to explain what’s happening; you also need a different kind of physics, quantum mechanics, which deals with the tiniest particles of the universe, atoms and their even-smaller components.