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A month on 'Mars': A Kinder, Gentler Mars

While places like the Haughton-Mars Project do not perfectly model the soil chemistry, intense radiation, lower gravity, or thin atmosphere of Mars, there is still great value in the work done here.

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Artemis 1 paves way for European tech and astronauts on the moon

The Artemis program may see the first European orbit the moon in 2025 and have European landers touch down on Earth's companion in early 2030s.

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No, NASA's massive Saturn V rocket didn't melt concrete with sound or set fires a mile away

Researchers used computer models to estimate the rocket's acoustic levels, determining they were not high enough to cause such damage.

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Voyager 1: Facts about Earth's farthest spacecraft

Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to travel beyond the solar system and enter interstellar space. The probe is still exploring the cosmos to this day.

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Save over 60% on the Adobe creative cloud in this back to school deal

That's a saving of over $35/£35 per month and gives you access to top apps including Photoshop, Premiere Pro and more.

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Here's how to edit James Webb Space Telescope images

New to image processing? Citizen scientist Judy Schmidt guides Space.com through the basics of creating a spectacular image from raw telescope data.

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What makes Newton's laws work? Here's the simple trick.

Lagrange found that the difference between an object's kinetic energy and potential energy unlocked something deeply profound about the universe.

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As NASA nears return to the moon with Artemis program, lunar scientists' excitement reaches fever pitch

With NASA's return to the moon with Artemis moving ever closer, lunar scientists look forward to the possibilities for science.

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NASA's Artemis 1 SLS megarocket has had a long road to its moon launch pad

The Artemis mission will soon usher in the next era of space exploration, carrying humans back to the moon and then beyond thanks to the most powerful rocket ever built, the Space Launch System.

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On the trail of unidentified aerial phenomenon: the Galileo Project looks ahead

The Galileo Project is the first systematic scientific research program in a search for artifacts or remnants of extraterrestrial technological civilizations.

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NASA's Orion spacecraft faces huge test for moon flights and deep space

The Orion spacecraft will carry humans further into space than they have ever journeyed before in a series of increasingly challenging missions.

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NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission is 'go' for Aug. 29 launch

NASA has cleared its Artemis 1 mission to launch an uncrewed test flight around the moon on Aug. 29.

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Jupiter's auroras look radiant in new James Webb Space Telescope images

Impressive infrared images of Jupiter's auroras were processed by citizen scientist Judy Schmidt.

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Artemis 1 will carry a space weather cubesat to study solar wind

Scientists hope CuSP will pave the way for a network of weather stations in interplanetary space.

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Dark matter could finally reveal itself through self-interactions

One hypothesis for the nature of dark matter is that some of it could be self-interacting, meaning the individual particles interact slightly with one another.

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'Solar clock' could predict rhythms of dangerous weather in the sun's cycle

For 400 years sunspots have been used to measure the sun's cycle, but a newly suggested 'circle of fifths' system could predict dangerous and violent solar events years in advance.

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International Space Station will host a surgical robot in 2024

A tiny robot known as MIRA will be blasting off to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2024 to perform simulated surgical procedures in microgravity.

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Stars appear to regulate their own masses during formation

The reason stars forming in very different regions of space come to have similar masses has puzzled astrophysicists for decades. Now, thanks to an advanced 3D stimulation, this mystery could be solved.

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The moon and Venus will make one last morning dance on Thursday (Aug. 25)

On Thursday Aug. 25 we will have an opportunity to catch sight of the two brightest objects in the night sky, Venus and the moon, engaged in a final morning dance.

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Galaxy's violent destruction acted as 'black hole delivery service'

Located 54 million light-years from Earth, the spiral galaxy NGC 4424 once consumed a smaller galaxy. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has spotted a supermassive black hole hidden in this cosmic meal.

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NASA's new 3D sky-mapping space telescope gets a custom test chamber

A custom-built chamber for testing an upcoming NASA space telescope has arrived at Caltech in Pasadena to help ready the spacecraft for launch in 2025.

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