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Space.com

On Thursday, April 13, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will lift off from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, beginning its 8-year journey to the gas giant Jupiter.

Space.com

Europe’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission is set to launch for its 8-year cruise to the solar system’s largest planet on Thursday at 8:15 a.m. EDT (1215 GMT) and you can watch the action live via Space.com. The spacecraft, designed to explore three …

Space.com

Europe’s upcoming Jupiter mission has only one second a day in which it can launch and hit the correct trajectory that will take it to the gas giant planet in eight years’ time. Fortunately, the mission will have one of these one-second windows each …

Space.com

Europe’s flagship mission to Jupiter looks ready to fly. The European Space Agency (ESA) shared images of the Ariane 5 rocket that will send its JUICE spacecraft to Jupiter and its moons ahead of its April 13 launch. “#ESAJuice is on the move, …

Space.com

Astronomers have discovered yet another ancient cosmic companion of Earth. The newfound asteroid 2023 FW13 circles the sun in sync with Earth, making it our planet’s “quasi-moon.” The space rock is in an orbit so elaborate that “it sweeps out halfway …

Space.com

The probe is currently in an elliptical lunar orbit, seeing it approach as close as 62 miles (100 kilometers) to the lunar surface, and heading as far away as 1,430 miles (2,300 km). From there, the spacecraft has already snapped some stunning images.

CNN

(CNN) Meteorite hunters, get ready to head into the woods. A museum in Maine is offering $25,000 for the remains of a space rock that streaked across the sky last week before landing …

Phys.Org

On Oct. 11, 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope spent over 20 hours observing the long-studied Hubble Ultra Deep Field for the first time. The general observer program (GO 1963) focused on analyzing the field in wavelengths between approximately 2 …

WIRED

The Juice spacecraft will zoom in on the moon Ganymede, which might have a habitable ocean deep underground.

CBS News

(CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope has spied colorful, never-before-seen details in one of the most well-observed remnants of an exploded star. The glowing gas and dust of Cassiopeia A is all that remains of a star that exploded in a supernova, …