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Many Worlds
Destination: Europa An artist rendering of Europa Clipper over Europa. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch in fall...
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An artist rendering of Europa Clipper over Europa. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch in fall 2024.  (NASA/JPL) “ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS – EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.” These are the words broadcast by the computer HAL as recounted in Arthur C. Clarke’s book...
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The Mars Water Story Takes an Important New Turn in Jezero Crater A mosiac made of 203 individual images taken by Perseverance showing the fossilized remains of what...
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A mosiac made of 203 individual images taken by Perseverance showing the fossilized remains of what was  likely once a strong and wild river in Jezero Crater.  Named Skrinkle Haven after a site in Wales, this river is the most powerful identified so far by Mars rovers. ...
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A New Model For How Earth Acquired Its Water One of the best known photographs of Earth, this image was taken by the crew of the final Apollo...
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One of the best known photographs of Earth, this image was taken by the crew of the final Apollo mission as the crew made its way to the Moon.  Named the “Blue Marble,” the image highlights how much of the planet is covered by water — 71 percent of the surface.  How this came to...
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A Scientific Bonanza From Asteroid Ryugu and Hayabusa2 Optical microscope images of six particle samples that were selected from what Hayabusa2 brought...
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Optical microscope images of six particle samples that were selected from what Hayabusa2 brought back to Earth from asteroid Ryugu. {Japan Aerospace Expedition Agency (JAXA), Science.} Collecting and transporting back to Earth samples of other planets, moons, asteroids and comets...
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Pam Conrad: The NASA Astrobiologist Who Also Became a Minister Pan Conrad on her last Sunday as rector of St. Albans Episcopal Church in Glen Burnie, Maryland....
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Pan Conrad on her last Sunday as rector of St. Albans Episcopal Church in Glen Burnie, Maryland. (Julian Lahdelma) Science and religion so often seem to be in conflict, with the chasm between them widening all the time. For many, the grounding of their religion is in faith and...
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What the JWST is Learning About Exoplanet Atmospheres We are now well into the era of exoplanet atmospheres, of measurements made possible by the James...
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We are now well into the era of exoplanet atmospheres, of measurements made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope.  While prior observatories could detect some chemicals in exoplanet atmospheres,  the limits were substantial. This is an artist’s impression of a hot Jupiter...
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The Strange Interstellar Object Oumuamua Was a Comet and Not The Space Probe Some Had Proposed New research concludes that the interstellar object that entered our solar system and then rocketed...
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New research concludes that the interstellar object that entered our solar system and then rocketed out was a small comet and not a spacecraft, as some had speculated. (JPL/NASA) In 2017, an  unusual small object flew into our solar system from afar,  approached the inner solar...
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What Would Happen If Our Solar System Had a Super-Earth Like Many Others? Chaos. Our solar system’s rocky planets are tiny compared with the larger gas and ice giants. Exoplanet...
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Our solar system’s rocky planets are tiny compared with the larger gas and ice giants. Exoplanet research has found, however, that the most common planets in the galaxy appear to be super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, types of planets not found in our system. Size comparison of the...
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A New Twist On Planet Formation This image of the nearby young star TW Hydrae reveals the classic rings and gaps that signify...
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This image of the nearby young star TW Hydrae reveals the classic rings and gaps that signify planets are being formed in this protoplanetary disk. {ESO, Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)} Before the first exoplanets were discovered in the 1990s,  our own solar...
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The JWST Discovers its First Earth-Sized Exoplanet Artist rendering of LHS 475 b, an Earth-sized exoplanet recently identified using the James Webb...
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Artist rendering of LHS 475 b, an Earth-sized exoplanet recently identified using the James Webb Space Telescope. This was the first planet of its size detected by the JWST. {NASA / ESA / CSA / Leah Hustak (STScI)} In the search for life on distant planets, scientists generally...
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The World of Water Worlds Artist rendering of a water world exoplanet. NASA predicts that quite a few exist in the galaxies...
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Artist rendering of a water world exoplanet. NASA predicts that quite a few exist in the galaxies but none has been confirmed. Two new candidates have been put forward. (The Cosmic Companion) Among the most intriguing types of exoplanet expected to be orbiting distant stars is...
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New Martian Surprise From The Curiosity Rover NASA researchers found that waves on the surface of a shallow lake in Gale Crater stirred up...
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NASA researchers found that waves on the surface of a shallow lake in Gale Crater stirred up sediment billions of years ago. That sediment eventually creating rippled textures left in rock. (NASA/JPLVCaltech/MSSS) In its more than a decade of exploring Gale Crater on Mars, the...