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Charon’s Red Cap at its North Pole? We Might Have an Answer

Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, started off as a beautiful, smooth red grape until someone came along, mostly peeled it,...

Could We Use Mars as a Base for Asteroid Mining?

The earliest mention of asteroid mining might be in a story from 1898 titled “Edison’s Conquest of Mars,” by...

A Totally new View of the Large Magellanic Cloud (and more!) From Retired Telescopes

ESA and NASA dusted off some old data from four retired space telescopes and combined forces to reveal new...

Northern summer solstice celebrated on the ground and in space (photos)

People around the world celebrated the summer solstice today (June 21), as did some satellites in space. The...

Gaia’s Massive Third Data Release is out!

It’s here! The third and largest data release (DR3) from the ESA’s Gaia Observatory has officially been made public....

This Bizarre Terrain on Mars is Caused by Water Ice and Carbon Dioxide

From orbit, this landscape on Mars looks like a lacy honeycomb or a spider web. But the unusual...

Solar wind: What is it and how does it affect Earth?

The solar wind is a continual stream of protons and electrons from the sun's outermost atmosphere — the corona....

The James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to do science — and it’s seeing the universe more clearly than even its own engineers...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. (opens in new tab) The publication contributed the article to...

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Charon’s Red Cap at its North Pole? We Might Have an Answer

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Could We Use Mars as a Base for Asteroid Mining?

The earliest mention of asteroid mining might be in a story from 1898 titled “Edison’s Conquest of Mars,” by...

A Totally new View of the Large Magellanic Cloud (and more!) From Retired Telescopes

ESA and NASA dusted off some old data from four retired space telescopes and combined forces to reveal new...

Northern summer solstice celebrated on the ground and in space (photos)

People around the world celebrated the summer solstice today (June 21), as did some satellites in space. The...

Gaia’s Massive Third Data Release is out!

It’s here! The third and largest data release (DR3) from the ESA’s Gaia Observatory has officially been made public....

This Bizarre Terrain on Mars is Caused by Water Ice and Carbon Dioxide

From orbit, this landscape on Mars looks like a lacy honeycomb or a spider web. But the unusual...

Solar wind: What is it and how does it affect Earth?

The solar wind is a continual stream of protons and electrons from the sun's outermost atmosphere — the corona....

The James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to do science — and it’s seeing the universe more clearly than even its own engineers...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. (opens in new tab) The publication contributed the article to...

Charon’s Red Cap at its North Pole? We Might Have an Answer

Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, started off as a beautiful, smooth red grape until someone came along, mostly peeled it,...

Could We Use Mars as a Base for Asteroid Mining?

The earliest mention of asteroid mining might be in a story from 1898 titled “Edison’s Conquest of Mars,” by...

A Totally new View of the Large Magellanic Cloud (and more!) From Retired Telescopes

ESA and NASA dusted off some old data from four retired space telescopes and combined forces to reveal new...

Northern summer solstice celebrated on the ground and in space (photos)

People around the world celebrated the summer solstice today (June 21), as did some satellites in space. The...

Gaia’s Massive Third Data Release is out!

It’s here! The third and largest data release (DR3) from the ESA’s Gaia Observatory has officially been made public....

This Bizarre Terrain on Mars is Caused by Water Ice and Carbon Dioxide

From orbit, this landscape on Mars looks like a lacy honeycomb or a spider web. But the unusual...

Solar wind: What is it and how does it affect Earth?

The solar wind is a continual stream of protons and electrons from the sun's outermost atmosphere — the corona....

The James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to do science — and it’s seeing the universe more clearly than even its own engineers...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. (opens in new tab) The publication contributed the article to...

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