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Space.com

“We aren’t going to see little green men but rather spectral signatures of these key chemicals, or what we call biosignatures.” Comments (0). An illustration shows the Habitable Worlds Telescope in orbit around Earth with its starshade unfolded.

Space.com

MOXIE’s mission is now complete, NASA announced on Wednesday (Sept. 6). The device has produced a total of 122 grams (4.3 oz) of Martian oxygen — roughly the amount a small dog breathes in 10 hours, and twice as much as scientists thought MOXIE could make …

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Venus was at inferior conjunction on Aug. 13, in line between the Earth and the sun. Now it is swinging away from that line, speeding ahead of the Earth in its faster orbit. In fact, Venus has erupted into view in the eastern morning sky during the …

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Europe’s next-generation heavy-lift rocket just took a big step towards its first, much-awaited launch. The rocket’s core stage Vulcain 2.1 engine burned liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen for four seconds on a launch pad at Europe’s Spaceport in French …

CNN

Lowell Observatory astronomer Dr. Larry Wasserman captured an image of Comet Nishimura using the Lowell Discovery Telescope (4.3-m diameter) Wednesday morning during twilight. Larry Wasserman/Matthew Knight/Dave Schleicher …

Space.com

SpaceX plans to launch 22 more of its Starlink internet satellites to low Earth orbit tonight (Sept. 8), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch the Starlink spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in …

CNN

Senior NASA officials say that the agency’s Space Launch System — the massive rocket designed to propel its ambitious Artemis program to establish a base on the moon — is “unaffordable,” according to a report Thursday from the US Government Accountability …

Astronomy Magazine

The solar system has a lot to offer this week, from bright Comet Nishimura to some beautiful sky scenes as the Moon wanes to New. By Alison Klesman | Published: …

Astronomy Magazine

Named Hoʻoleilana, a nod to a Hawaiian creation chant that describes the origin of structure, the massive bubble is thought to be what’s called a baryon acoustic oscillation, or BAO. These fossilized imprints of matter in …

Phys.Org

Beavers, as everyone knows, like to make dams. Those dams cause flooding, which inundates vegetation and turns Arctic streams and creeks into a series of ponds. Those beaver ponds and surrounding inundated vegetation can be devoid of oxygen and rich with …