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View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Abhijit Patil in San Jose, California, captured this photo of…

Perseverance rover reveals history of ancient habitable lake

View larger. | NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft took this image of part of Jezero…

Organic Molecules Come from the Universe’s Cold Places

Life, as we all know, is based on chemistry. Prebiotic chemical building blocks existed on our…

First release of the largest extragalactic HI catalog

The promotional image shows the project about the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) All Sky…

Meet the infrared telescopes that paved the way for NASA’s Webb

Clouds of gas and dust in space—like Rho Ophiuchi, shown here—mostly radiate infrared light, which human…

A new way to characterize habitable planets

Dramatic plumes spray water ice and vapor from many locations along the famed “tiger stripes” near…

December 2023 OSCAR News now available

E-members of AMSAT-UK can now download the December 2023 edition of OSCAR News, issue 243, here.…

NASA Tests Out 3D-printed Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine!

Looking to the future, NASA is investigating several technologies that will allow it to accomplish some…

NASA’s Juno to get close look at Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io on Dec. 30

This image revealing the north polar region of the Jovian moon Io was taken on October…

Mission Manager Update: VIPER Flight Rover Half-Built!

The VIPER team is hard at work building the flight vehicle that will be going to…