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Highlights from the 10th Achieving Mars Workshop
Back in December, NASA officials, space industry experts, members of the academic community, and science communicators descended on Washington, D.C.,…
New Telescope Images of Io are so Good, it Looks like a Spacecraft Took Them
The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), located on Mount Graham in Arizona and run by the University of Arizona, is part…
Pluto Has an Ocean of Liquid Water Surrounded by a 40-80 km Ice Shell
On July 14th, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft conducted the first-ever flyby of Pluto, which once was (and to many,…
Galaxies in the Early Universe Preferred their Food Cold
One of the main objectives of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to study the early Universe by using…
Another Giant Antarctic Iceberg Breaks Free
On May 20th, 2024, an iceberg measuring 380 square kilometers (~147 mi2) broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica.…
This is the Largest Planet-Forming Disk Ever Seen
Roughly 1,000 light-years from Earth, there is a cosmic structure known as IRAS 23077+6707 (IRAS 23077) that resembles a giant…
The Habitable Worlds Observatory Could See Lunar and Solar ‘Exo-Eclipses’
A future space observatory could use exo-eclipses to tease out exomoon populations.
That Recent Solar Storm Was Detected Almost Three Kilometers Under the Ocean
On May 10th, 2024, people across North America were treated to a rare celestial event: an aurora visible from the…
Astronomers Discover the Second-Lightest “Cotton Candy” Exoplanet to Date.
The hunt for extrasolar planets has revealed some truly interesting candidates, not the least of which are planets known as…
New Photos Show Jupiter’s Tiny Moon Amalthea
NASA’s Juno spacecraft spies a tiny inner moon of Jupiter, Amalthea.