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Space.com

A tiny Japanese moon lander won’t make it to the lunar surface after all. Trackers of the OMOTENASHI moon spacecraft, a rideshare with NASA’s Artemis 1 mission that launched on Nov. 16, failed to pick up the cubesat’s wobbly signal in time for its …

Space.com

A flyby of Jupiter by NASA’s Juno spacecraft has delivered a stunning image of the gas giant’s cloud tops and the moons Callisto and Io. The newly released image was taken by the spacecraft’s JunoCam just under a year ago, on Nov.

EarthSky

2022 WJ1 was a tiny asteroid on a collision course with Earth. But astronomers saw it coming, and NASA’s Scout impact hazard assessment system calculated where it would hit. In the early hours of …

CNET

It’s a bit unsettling to scroll through a website scientists made, detailing the observable universe. I highly recommend doing it. Monisha Ravisetti headshot.

EarthSky

Full moon passes Mars on December 7. December 7 to 8 is a busy night as the full moon occults Mars just hours before Mars’s opposition. Opposition is when an object is opposite the sun in Earth’s sky. During opposition, the 3 objects are in a line with …

USA TODAY

Sellés, who co-authored the study, said the team began comparing newly discovered remains to other giant ancient sea turtles in the fossil record like Archelon and Protostega, both of which roamed the waters near North America and were the best potential …

CNET

It’s unsettling to flip through a website scientists made that details the observable universe. I highly recommend doing it. Monisha Ravisetti headshot. Monisha Ravisetti.

Voice of America

NASA’s Orion capsule reached the moon Monday, whipping around the far side and buzzing the lunar surface on its way to a record-breaking orbit with test dummies sitting in for astronauts. It’s the first time a capsule has visited the moon since NASA’s …

CNET

Test flights are test flights for a reason. NASA was aiming for a trouble-free Artemis I mission that’s sending its uncrewed Orion capsule around the moon and back, but the spacecraft encountered a communications glitch overnight.

AZoM

Heterogeneous catalysis is a critical process in a range of clean energy technology applications, for example, reducing soot emissions. Heterogeneous catalysis sees reactants transformed into products on a solid catalyst material’s surface. Much of the …