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How are Mars Rocks Getting “Shocked” by Meteorite Impacts?
A new NASA study shows how samples obtained by Perseverance could have been shaped by asteroid impacts when Mars was…
Clouds of Carbon Dust Seen When the Universe was Less Than a Billion Years Old
A new study shows that carbonaeous dust grains existed much earlier than previously thought, which has significant implications for galactic…
Dust Storms on Mars Generate Static Electricity. What Does This Do to Its Surface?
A new study shows how electrical discharges caused by Martian storms drives some major chemical processes on the planet's surface.
Webb Sees Three Galaxy Clusters Coming Together to Form a Megacluster
The latest JWST deep-field image provides a breathtaking view of Pandora's Cluster, which was previously imaged by Hubble.
Humans Can Still Find Galaxies That Machine Learning Algorithms Miss
Amateur astronomer Giuseppe Donatiello discovered three faint galaxies that machine learning missed.
Drag Sail Success! This Satellite Won't Turn Into Space Junk
The European Space Agency successfully tested a solar-sail-type device to speed up the deorbit time for a used cubesat carrier…
Europe Will be Building the Transfer Arm for the Mars Sample Return Mission
Now that the Perseverance rover has dropped off ten regolith and rock sample tubes for a future sample return mission…
How Could We Detect Life Inside Enceladus?
A new study provides estimates on what an astrobiology mission could find when it goes to Enceladus and samples its…
The Smallest Radar Ever Sent to Space Will Probe the Interior of Dimorphos After its Impact From DART
Are miniature probes the future of deep space exploration? (more…)
ESA is Considering a Mission to Enceladus
There are plenty of exciting places in the solar system to explore. But few are more interesting than Saturn's moon…