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Space.com

We’ve learned a lot about these exotic bodies in the past 400 years thanks to ever-improving telescope views and close-up imagery snapped by voyaging spacecraft like NASA’s Juno Jupiter orbiter.

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Ingenuity touched down with NASA’s Perseverance rover inside Mars’ Jezero Crater in February 2021. The rotorcraft was designed to be a technology demonstrator; its main task was to show that aerial exploration is possible on Mars despite …

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The Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) is designed for continuous, long-term moonquake monitoring. Comments (0). illustration of two astronauts on the surface of the moon. Artist’s illustration of two Artemis astronauts at work on the lunar …

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NASA’s space-based solar observatory STEREO-A is keeping a close eye on ‘Devil Comet’ 12P/Pons-Brooks as it prepares to make its closest approach to the sun — known as perihelion — on April 21.

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A pair of small experimental satellites have begun tests related to future lunar communication and navigation services for China’s moon ambitions. The Tiandu-1 and Tiandu-2 satellites launched toward the moon along with the Queqiao-2 lunar …

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Come Monday morning, April 22, the first good meteor shower in nearly four months reaches its peak: The annual Lyrid meteors. Unfortunately, 2024 will not be a good year to look for these “shooting stars.” There is going to be a significant handicap in …

USA TODAY

On a special episode (first released on April 18, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: Could the woolly mammoth really be brought back to life? Ben Lamm thinks so. He’s the CEO and Co-founder of Colossal Biosciences, a company at the heart of an evolving …

Astronomy Magazine

Catch the Lyrid meteor shower, see a Full Pink Moon, and follow plenty of or solar system’s planets in the sky this week. By Alison Klesman | Published: April …

Scientific American

The telescope’s studies could help end a long-standing disagreement over the rate of cosmic expansion. But scientists say more measurements are needed. By Davide Castelvecchi. This Hubble telescope image shows the globular cluster Terzan 1, …

Popular Mechanics

The standard cosmological model known as Lambda-CDM (ΛCDM) proposes that dark energy is a constant force in the universe. However, an early “hint” in a new detailed map from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument shows that dark energy can actually …