Observations from the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes reveal Saturn’s atmosphere and rings in the most detailed view created to date.
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Lightning on Jupiter may pack more than 100 times the power of Earth’s bolts, and may prove one million times stronger, a new study finds.
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Europe’s Hera spacecraft has completed a major deep-space maneuver, setting it on course to rendezvous late this year with the asteroid system targeted by NASA’s DART mission back in 2022.
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The asteroid will make a close approach to Earth just three days following its discovery.
NASA plans to launch its first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft in 2028, a probe called Space Reactor-1 Freedom that will carry a fleet of tiny helicopters to Mars.
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Fiber-optic cables on the moon could detect moonquakes, offering a simpler way to study lunar activity and support future Artemis missions.
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Astronomers have found four new moons orbiting Jupiter and 11 new moons around Saturn.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic moment: a comet breaking apart in real time.
NASA has used advanced imaging techniques to peer inside samples of asteroid Bennu, discovering extensive networks of cracks running throughout the rock particles.
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A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil.
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