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Mars helicopter Ingenuity's historic 1st flights shed light on Martian dust dynamics

In April 2021, a camera on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recorded its tiny robotic cousin Ingenuity lifting off on the Red Planet. Foraying 10 feet (3 meters) into the Martian sky, the 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity helicopter made history that day ...

The James Webb Space Telescope discovers enormous distant galaxies that should not exist

Six distant galaxies discovered in early James Webb Space Telescope images appear surprisingly large for their. These six galaxies may force astronomers to rewrite cosmology books. (Image credit: NASA ...

Watch the moon meet up with Jupiter in the night sky tonight

Solar system planets can also share the same right ascension, being they can be in conjunction to each other, but these planets move much more slowly along the ecliptic conjunctions between the planets are far rarer than conjunctions with the moon.

Hubble Space Telescope peers into a glittering sea of extragalactic stars (photo)

The LMC looks like a strange smudge to the naked eye, but it's actually a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. The LMC is close enough to us that Hubble can make out individual stars within it, but the chasm between both galaxies presents some challenges ...

Webb telescope spots surprisingly massive galaxies from the early universe

CNN

CNN

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer back in time to the early days of the universe — and they spotted something unexpected. The space observatory revealed six massive galaxies that existed between 500 million ...

'Runaway' black hole the size of 20 million suns found speeding through space with a trail of newborn stars behind it

Livescience.com

Livescience.com

The researchers discovered the runaway black hole as a bright streak of light while they were using the Hubble Space Telescope to observe the dwarf galaxy RCP 28, located about 7.5 billion light-years from Earth.

See the moon and Venus dance together in Wednesday evening's sky

As far as celestial objects in the night sky go, the moon is by far the brightest, with Venus coming in a distant second. On Wednesday (Feb. 22), you'll be able to spot the two making a close approach. That approach, technically called an appulse, ...

SpaceX Dragon crewed flight to ISS pushed back 24 hours

From L-R, Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, astronaut Sultan Al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates, mission commander Stephen Bowen of NASA and pilot Warren Hoburg of NASA speak to reporters in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Earth's Inner Core May Have an Inner Core

Scientific American

Earth's core consists of a solid iron-nickel ball rotating within a layer of liquid metal. But that ball may not be as simple as it seems: new research suggests the inner core contains its own inner core. If so, this so-called innermost inner core may ...

In search of Planet 9: An unconventional detection approach

There is a mystery in our solar system surrounding the orbits of Kuiper belt objects. More than one trillion icy objects smaller than our moon orbit the sun in a donut-shaped ring beyond Neptune. Oddly, a cluster of outer Kuiper belt objects all ...