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A NASA spacecraft will make another close pass of the sun

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A NASA spacecraft will make another close brush with the sun, the second of three planned encounters through the sizzling solar atmosphere. The Parker Solar Probe made...

The spring equinox is here. What does that mean?

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Spring is almost here—officially, at least. The vernal equinox arrives on Thursday, marking the start of the spring season for the Northern Hemisphere and...

Can any nearby supernova cause a mass extinction?

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The most dangerous parts of a supernova explosion are the outputs like X-rays and gamma rays. Even though they only share a small fraction...

A geologic map of the asteroid belt: Tracing meteorites back to their origins

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Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, astronomers trace the impact orbit...

Four tiny planets are orbiting one of our nearest stars

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Astronomers have revealed new evidence that not just one, but four tiny planets are circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth. The...

Remember that asteroid that isn’t going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it

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Last year, astronomers detected the near-earth asteroid (NEA) 2024 YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature...

Watch the moon turn red during a total lunar eclipse in March

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A total lunar eclipse will flush the moon red Thursday night into Friday morning across the Western Hemisphere. The best views will be from North...

Here’s a look at moon landing hits and misses

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Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines put...

Seismic clues from Marsquakes suggest liquid water and life potential beneath the surface

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Are subterranean lifeforms viable on Mars? A new interpretation of Martian seismic data by scientists Ikuo Katayama of Hiroshima University and Yuya Akamatsu of...

NASA successfully acquires GPS signals on moon

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NASA and the Italian Space Agency made history on March 3 when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology demonstration to...

More potential locations for ice on the Moon discovered

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Ice may be present a few centimeters below the moon's surface in more areas of the lunar polar regions than was previously thought due...

Can surface fractures on Earth, Mars, and Europa predict habitability on other planets?

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When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks on Mars,...
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