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The Washington Post

The official history of the planet should not include a radical new chapter defined by human impacts, a key scientific panel has decided — ending, for now, a years-long effort to update Earth’s geologic timeline with a new epoch: the Anthropocene.

CBS News

Europa, one of Jupiter’s 95 moons, generates 1,000 tons of oxygen every 24 hours, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Monday. It’s enough oxygen to keep a million humans breathing each day, but it’s substantially less than scientists previously …

Space.com

The figures showcase clearly defined spiral arms arising from thick dust. Others exhibit less-defined clouds of luminescent matter. For astronomers, these observations present a unique opportunity to study how planets are born. The collection …

The Washington Post

It’s unclear which species created the artifacts, but they appear to have been made by some type of hominin, the group that includes modern humans and our direct ancestors.

Space.com

“With NASA’s plans for the future of exploration,” the agency added, “new astronauts will fly farther into space than ever before on lunar missions and may be the first humans to fly on to Mars.”.

CNN

Astronomers have spotted the oldest “dead” galaxy ever observed while studying the cosmos with the James Webb Space Telescope, and it’s one of the deepest views into the distant universe made with the observatory to date.

CBS News

Robert Maiolino, one of the researchers on the team, told NASA that the structure is “gobbling matter” inside the galaxy. Researchers have also discovered the galaxy is expelling high-velocity winds, which are “typically driven by processes associated” …

NPR

The last time Stamatios “Tom” Krimigis saw the Voyager 1 space probe in person, it was the summer of 1977, just before it launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Now Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles away, beyond what many consider to be the edge of …

CBS News

The Arctic could be “ice-free” in just a few years, scientists have found. Here’s what that means. The region, which sits at the northernmost point of the globe, is a unique ecosystem characterized by areas of permanent snow and ice.