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See the messages NASA is sending to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa
Illustration of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft NASA/JPL-Caltech IN OCTOBER, NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is due to…
How solar eclipses have been revealing cosmic secrets for centuries
A total solar eclipse is a great opportunity to learn more about the sun ESA/Royal Observatory…
The ambitious plans to study the sun during April’s solar eclipse
NASA’s WB-57 research jets will be used to study the eclipse Amir Caspi Across North America,…
Japan’s SLIM moon lander surprisingly survived a second lunar night
View of the moon’s surface taken from the SLIM lander’s tilted position JAXA Most landers we…
Some of the greatest cosmic discoveries have come about by accident
FOR a $10 billion instrument, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spends a lot of its…
Mars may have captured and split a comet to create its two moons
Mars has two irregularly shaped moons, an inner moon named Phobos and an outer moon named…
Early galaxy seen by JWST contains giant young stars and supernovae
GLASS-z12, a very early galaxy viewed by the James Webb Space Telescope Naidu et al,…
NASA’s Artemis astronauts will try to grow plants on the moon
An artist’s concept of an Artemis astronaut deploying an instrument on the lunar surface NASA NASA…
New view of our galaxy’s black hole reveals a swirling magnetic field
The black hole Sagittarius A*, viewed in polarised light European Southern Observatory (ESO) This is the…