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Rocket Lab planning to launch private Venus mission in May 2023

But the second rock from the sun is getting more and more attention these days as a possible abode for alien life, both past and present. Scientists are now planning out missions that could cough up new information about Venus' habitability — and perhaps ...

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.

Three mannequins installed on Orion spacecraft for flight around the moon

Spaceflight Now

Spaceflight Now

One of the three mannequins on the Artemis 1 mission, dubbed "Commander Moonikin Campos," is shown inside he Orion crew module in this Aug. 3 photo. Credit: NASA/Frank Michaux. Three instrumented mannequins strapped into seats on NASA's Orion ...

Why NASA is returning to the moon 50 years later with Artemis I

(CNN) It's time to go back to the moon. Almost 50 years after the last Apollo mission ventured to the lunar surface, NASA has established a program that promises to land humans on ...

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

The absorption of a small galaxy into a larger spiral galaxy seems to have acted as a 'black hole delivery system' leaving a distant galaxy with two supermassive black holes that will eventually collide.

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

The customized chamber will prepare the SPHEREx space telewscope's sensitive infrared optics for deep views of universe. ... Hardware for NASA's SPHEREx mission lowered through the ceiling into test chamber. Components of NASA's ...

Do You Believe Scientists, or Your Dog's Crying Eyes?

The New York Times

The New York Times

The study's authors did not suggest that dogs weep with emotion the way humans do. But when dogs exhibit "watery, shiny eyes," it "facilitates human caregiving," said Takefumi Kikusui, an animal behavior and veterinary medicine specialist at Azabu ...

Even scientists didn't expect Webb telescope images of Jupiter to be this good

De Pater and Thierry Fouchet, a professor at the Paris Observatory, led observations of the largest planet in our solar system using the Webb telescope – which is itself an international endeavor by NASA with the European Space Agency and Canadian Space ...

EarthSky

Jupiter from Webb in new images. Amazing!

EarthSky

Jupiter reveals amazing detail in new images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope released today (August 22, 2022). With giant storms, powerful winds, auroras, and extreme temperature and pressure conditions, Jupiter has a lot going on.

Universe's Most Massive Known Star Captured With Unprecedented Clarity

CNET

CNET

Nestled in the center of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud is the largest star yet discovered. International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Acknowledgment: Image processing: T.A. Rector (University ...