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Space.com

NASA’s Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s largest moon will touch down on a terrain of dunes and shattered, icy bedrock, according to a new analysis of radar imagery from the Cassini spacecraft. Launching in 2027, Dragonfly is a rotorcraft that will arrive …

Space.com

Ancient microbes triggered a climate change on Mars that made the planet less habitable, which may have ultimately led to their extinction, a new climate modeling study suggests. According to the study, simple microbes that feed on hydrogen and excrete …

Space.com

The Milky Way is a gargantuan graveyard. Stars are born, burn out and die, but they don’t just vanish — and the galaxy is haunted by their corpses. Massive stars in the Milky Way that died billions of years ago went supernova and morphed into two types …

CNN

The Milky Way galaxy has a graveyard of dead stars that stretches three times the height of the galaxy, according to new research. Astronomers found the ancient stellar remnants when they mapped this “galactic underworld” for the first time.

WIRED

NASA will soon release the results of its DART mission to find out whether crashing a probe into a space rock can deflect it. Here’s how they’ll do the math.

Space.com

On July 10, 2022, a gigantic solar prominence appeared in the sun’s chromosphere, throwing a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. Luckily, I happened to check the solar activity at the end of the day. Normally I don’t photograph the sun so late, …

The Washington Post

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms, French scientists reported Monday. But if they existed, these simple life forms would have altered the …

Phys.Org

Tuesday saw an Atlas V lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station while Wednesday saw the liftoff of the Crew-5 mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center sending four passengers to the International Space Station.

CNET

Capstone will fly in cislunar space, the orbital space near and around the moon. NASA/Daniel Rutter. The Capstone spacecraft, part …

Cornell Chronicle

New images from NASA’s Juno spacecraft mission Sept. 29 flyby of Jupiter’s moon Europa – an icy world that may host a life-giving, salty ocean beneath its thick crust – brings an upcoming major mission into frigid focus.