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Space.com

Europe will soon fly its first-ever mission to the Jupiter system. If all goes well, the spacecraft will arrive at the gas giant in 2031. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or JUICE, is slated to launch on Thursday (April 13) from Europe’s Spaceport in …

Space.com

Six early-stage space tech ideas have snagged funding from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, which seeks to encourage the development of futuristic concepts that could revolutionize spaceflight and exploration.

WWNO

Of all the things to go wrong midair in the cockpit of a plane, finding an unwanted poisonous snake under the pilot’s seat must surely be one of the worst scenarios. Copyright 2023 NPR · Facebook · Twitter · LinkedIn · Email. Kate Bartlett.

The Hindu

The largest-ever genetic assessment of the woolly mammoth has yielded new insight into this elephant cousin – an icon of the Ice Age – including about its fluffy hair, small ears, cold tolerance, fat storage and even dry ear wax.

Hindustan Times

The detailed image is captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope with the Wide Field Camera 3 and accentuates bright blue star clusters and intricate winding dust lanes which are hallmarks of this class of galaxies while revealing individual stars within …

Evening Standard

Juice, which stands for JUpiter ICy moons Explorer, is due to blast off on April 13 from French Guiana, with an eight-year journey ahead. Experts from Imperial College London led the development of …

Hindustan Times

It is a scary day today! A gigantic 120-foot, airplane sized asteroid named 2023 FP5 is moving at a rapid speed towards planet Earth today, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). NASA is continuously keeping an eye on this massive …

Q13 FOX (Seattle)

“Some of the energy from those earthquakes traveled deep into our planet and reflected (bounced) off the core-mantle boundary (CMB), ultimately getting recorded by our Antarctic stations,” she told FOX Television Stations.

The Register

A runaway supermassive black hole is speeding through space and creating a trail of stars behind it, a phenomenon accidentally discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope. The rogue object, estimated to be 20 million times more massive than the Sun, …

SYFY WIRE

Apollo 8 got a lot of firsts in the record books. The mission, which launched December 21, 1968, carried a crew of three. A few days after liftoff, Frank Borman II, James Lovell Jr., and William Anders became the first human beings in history to fly to …