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The Planetary Society

I promise I’ll rest up so I can be back to share the wonders of space exploration with you in future weeks. Now for some space mission briefings. China’s Zhurong Mars Rover appears to be facing challenges. Images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter …

Space.com

With the next era of lunar exploration on the horizon, scientists have begun to consider how time should be kept on the moon and how lunar missions will fix their own positions independent from Earth. This rethink culminated in the agreement, …

Spaceflight Now

SpaceX scrubbed the launch from Florida of a four-man crew heading to the International Space Station early Monday with less than three minutes remaining in the countdown, delaying the start of a six-month mission to examine a problem with a ground …

Space.com

Scientists and engineers from NASA and the European Space Agency are gearing up to send three new missions to the second rock from the sun. They want to know a whole lot more about the nearby planet, which resembles Earth in so many ways, and yet is so …

Space.com

Venus and Jupiter will approach each other in the night sky on Wednesday (March 1) during a meeting of solar system record breakers, the hottest planet and the largest. According to In the Sky (opens in new tab), during the close approach between the …

Space.com

Earth recently experienced the most powerful solar storm of the current solar cycle, which caused auroras to spread far away from their usual haunts around the poles. Unexpected sightings were reported as far as California and Western Australia.

EarthSky

All of the new-found planets orbit red dwarf stars. And 12 of the them are potentially habitable, the researchers said. The astronomers are with the CARMENES project consortium, which just released …

Scientific American

The half-inch-long insects are destructive agricultural pests because of their unquenchable thirsts and splashy bathroom habits: when nature calls, these bugs launch droplets of their watery pee and create puddles of disease-causing waste.

Phys.Org

In the upper image, relativistic electron-positron (pair) plasmas abound in the environments of astrophysical compact objects (e.g., black holes and neutron stars) and are important to understand their high-energy emission.

CNN

The breathtaking dancing shimmer of the aurora borealis and its counterpart in the southern hemisphere, aurora australis, dazzles those lucky enough to catch a glimpse of Earth’s greatest light show. The northern and southern lights, …