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Curiosity rover snaps close-up of tiny 'mineral flower' on Mars

A new image taken by the Curiosity rover reveals a tiny, flower-like mineral deposit less than half an inch wide on the Martian surface.

Romania signs the Artemis Accords for space exploration cooperation

The country of Romania has signed the Artemis Accords, becoming the 16th nation to join the NASA-led project for cooperation in space.

Tiny laser-propelled spaceships could travel to the far reaches of the solar system and beyond

Miniature spaceships the size of cellphones could fly across the solar system using sails propelled by lasers, reaching distant destinations on very reasonable timescales.

Coronal Loops Might Not Be Loops At All

We’ve all seen the gorgeous images and videos of coronal loops. They’re curved magnetic forms that force brightly glowing plasma to travel along their path. They arch up above the Sun, sometimes for thousands of kilometres, before reconnecting with the Sun again.

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Elon Musk says SpaceX's Starlink won't block Russian news sources 'unless at gunpoint'

Elon Musk said SpaceX's Starlink internet won't block Russian news sources despite government requests.

Elon Musk says SpaceX focusing on cyber defense after Starlink signals jammed near Ukraine conflict areas

Elon Musk says SpaceX is focusing on cyber defense after Starlink signals were jammed amid Russia's Ukraine invasion.

'Star Trek: Discovery' season 4, episode 11 'Rosetta' has the away team on an acid trip

The "Star Trek: Discovery" season 4 episode 11 "Rosetta" is entertaining and well-written, but not memorable.

Save 21% on Terraforming Mars and conquer the Red Planet

Terraforming Mars is now 21% off on Amazon, and which is a pretty stellar deal for the popular space board game.

Chocolate, music and research fuel Martian life at HI-SEAS – Commander's report: sol 6

The Valoria 3 crewmembers have created a new home out of HI-SEAS filled with chocolate smells, rap music and research experiments. They have embraced their new Martian life, which has helped them bond as a team.

Lego rolls out Artemis toy sets ahead of new NASA moon missions

Lego rolled out its Space Launch System two weeks before NASA was scheduled to do the same with the real rocket. Lego released the SLS and three other sets inspired by the Artemis program.

Rogue rocket body imaged weeks before its moon impact (photo)

A Virtual Telescope Project image shows a rogue rocket stage on the road to oblivion, nearly a month before it smashed into the the moon on Friday (March 4).

Astronomers Scan 800 Pulsars to See If Any of Them Have Planets

Astronomers discovered the first exoplanets in 1992. They found a pair of them orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12 about 2300 light-years from the Sun. Two years later they discovered the third planet in the system.

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Constellations of the western zodiac

The constellations of the western zodiac are now used to orient skywatchers, navigate without technology and inspire interest in the night sky.

Russia removes Soyuz rocket with 36 OneWeb satellites from launch pad (photos)

On Friday (March 4), Russia removed a Soyuz rocket topped with 36 OneWeb internet satellites from its launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The Large Hadron Collider will explore the cutting edge of physics after 3-year shutdown

Scientists are gearing up to once more push the boundaries of the cutting edge of particle physics with the reopening of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN after a three-year shutdown.

The Large Hadron Collider: Inside CERN's atom smasher

The Large Hadron Collider is the world's biggest particle accelerator. It's located at the European particle physics laboratory CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland.

Stark racial disparities remain in US physics

Fostering and retaining racial diversity is an uphill battle in STEM, particularly in physics.

40-mile-long Russian invasion convoy visible from space in new 3D satellite view (video)

Maxar Technologies has stitched together high-resolution satellite imagery of the sprawling Russian convoy to create a 3D video, which provides a better sense of its massive scope.

James Webb Space Telescope will study icy objects in the mysterious 'graveyard of the solar system'

One of the James Webb Space Telescope's first missions this year will be to study some of the thousands of dwarf planets and other celestial objects in the Kuiper Belt, a region beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Geordi La Forge of Star Trek: TNG scores a solo mission in IDW's 'Star Trek: The Mirror War' one-shot

IDW Publishing presents a new standalone "Star Trek" comic starring Captain Geordi La Forge.

“Closest Black Hole” Doesn’t Exist, After All

Astronomers combined forces to confirm that a black hole proposed to lie a mere 1,000 light-years away isn’t really there.

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