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Space.com

Astronauts and then-astronaut candidates from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency pose for a photograph in front of NASA’s Artemis I Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft atop the mobile launcher on the pad at Launch Complex 39B on Aug. 28, 2022.

Space.com

SpaceX’s third Starship megarocket made sure its epic demise would be remembered. Starship launched today (March 14) for the third time ever, soaring into space from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas. The giant vehicle notched a number of important …

Space.com

The gas giant Jupiter steals the show in these two new portraits of the planet’s opposing faces, showing the swirling storms and tumultuous cloud bands blown by winds raging at hundreds of miles per hour. The Hubble Space Telescope took these images on …

Space.com

First, he spotted a relict glacier, covered with volcanic ash, and in a single day, realized he’d found a recently active volcano not previously identified–and how was this missed? Pascal will fill us in on the gritty details.

CNN

The SpaceX Starship spacecraft lifts off from the Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday. Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images. Starship’s eventful third test flight achieved multiple milestones …

Space.com

A gigantic plasma eruption from the sun’s hidden far side recently launched a sizable coronal mass ejection that slammed into Mercury, potentially triggering invisible X-ray auroras around the planet’s rocky surface. an orange fiery orb flickers with …

The Washington Post

There’s a chance that comet Pons-Brooks, which is prone to volcanic outbursts, could be seen during the total solar eclipse … An occasionally explosive yet fickle comet with a devilish nickname is visible in the evening sky for the first time in 71 years.

Phys.Org

Detailed Mars data analysis revealed the Noctis volcano. Detailed analysis of the altimetry of the region using NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) data, in combination with high-resolution imaging data from NASA’s …

SpaceNews

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Efforts by scientists to use a Mars rover to collect samples are continuing even as NASA wraps up a new assessment of when and how those samples will be brought back to Earth. The Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in …

Phys.Org

The new virtual fly is the most realistic simulation of a fruit fly created to date. It combines a new anatomically accurate model of the fly’s outer skeleton, a fast physics simulator, and an artificial neural network trained on fly behaviors to mimic the …