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United Launch Alliance's 1st Vulcan Centaur rocket arrives in Florida for debut flight

The new rocket will make its first flight in the next few months, if all goes according to plan, sending a private lunar lander to the moon alongside two Amazon internet satellites. " ...

How to see green comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) as it approaches Earth

The comet is rapidly approaching perigee, its closest point to Earth, which is making it easier to spot in the night sky. The comet, first discovered in March 2022 by astronomers Frank Masci and Bryce Bolin ...

2 massive 'active regions' on the sun have rotated into Earth's view

Solar activity increased on Jan. 13 as massive active regions of the sun rounded its east limb to face Earth. The location of the active regions, designated NOAA 13169 and NOAA 13170, had been predicted previously by the Global Oscillation Network ...

The Lucy asteroid probe's solar array still isn't latched, but NASA's fine with it

Lucy launched in October 2021, beginning the first-ever visit to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. These are thought to be primitive objects from the early days of the solar system that orbit ahead of and behind the giant planet as it makes its way around the ...

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Earth's inner core seems to be slowing its spin

The Washington Post

In the mid-1990s scientists found evidence that Earth's inner core, a superheated ball of iron slightly smaller than the moon, was spinning at its own pace, just a bit faster than the rest of the planet. Now a study published in Nature Geoscience ...

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Life on Io? An astrobiologist says it's possible

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Io, the most volcanically active place in the solar system, is basically a hell world. Hundreds of sulfur volcanoes are erupting on a regular basis, covering the entire moon in hot lava and sulfur deposits. Some scientists, however, are rethinking the ...

A new model for dark matter

by University of Michigan · A new model for dark matter. This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the distribution of dark matter in the center of the giant galaxy cluster Abell 1689, containing about 1,000 galaxies and trillions of stars.

Galileo tribute plaque unveiled on the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice

A commemorative plaque celebrating Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's moons has been unveiled on ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice. The spacecraft has just completed its final tests before departing Toulouse, France, for Europe's Spaceport to count ...

Webb telescope spies frozen molecules inside a wispy space cloud

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More orange dots represent light from stars in the background, piercing through the cloud. The starlight helped astronomers determine the diverse range of frozen molecules within the Chamaeleon I dark molecular cloud, which is forming dozens of young stars ...

See Mercury at its highest point in the sky Tuesday morning (Jan. 24)

The tiny planet orbits so close to the sun that the star's blazing light simply washes Mercury out of Earth's sight. The only time we get to see the planet is when it's at greatest elongation, or its farthest points from the sun — that happens a few times ...