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Space.com

In fact, the moon will turn full at 11:08 p.m. EST (0408 GMT on Dec. 8) followed by Mars arriving at opposition to the sun just 87 minutes later. This will result in an almost perfect alignment in space of the sun, Earth, moon and Mars.

Spaceflight Now

NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio will put on their spacesuits Saturday and head outside the International Space Station for a spacewalk to install and unfurl a new roll-out solar array recently delivered by a SpaceX cargo ship.

CNN

Viking 1 captured a color photo of its Martian landing site on July 21, 1976, the day after touching down, showing a surprisingly rocky view of the surface. NASA.

CNN

The first two rollout solar arrays were installed outside the station in June 2021. The plan is to add a total of six iROSAs, which will likely boost the space station’s power generation by more than 30% once all are operational.

Astronomy Magazine

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured new images of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The views not only highlight surface features like the methane sea Kraken Mare and the dark sand dunes of Belet, they also reveal two large clouds shrouding …

Space.com

Arp-Madore 417-391 is somewhat reminiscent of a different class of galactic structure known as a ring galaxy, the most famous of which is Hoag’s object; these ring galaxies make up less than 0.1% of known galaxies.

Atlas Obscura

This apex predator is built to hunt animals bigger than you, including sharks, but you’ll do for a snack. Take heart, unfortunate lungfish: Soon enough, at least in geological time, this creature and all the other Whatcheeria deltae will be extinct.

The Weather Channel

Few things compare to the sensation of sunlight engulfing your skin while you spot the ocean-blue with sprinkles of white over the horizon as you enter a beach. You can’t wait to splash among the serendipitous blue waves, so you hurriedly round up your …

WDBJ7

(Gray News) – A team of researchers discovered minerals they say have never been seen before on Earth. According to the University of Alberta, the team found at least two such minerals in a 15-tonne meteorite, the ninth largest meteorite ever found, …

BBC News

A new discovery suggests lizards have existed for 35 million years longer than previously thought. The University of Bristol took CT scans of fossilised remains of a reptile that sat in a Natural History Museum storage cupboard for decades.