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Europa Clipper set to launch soon to explore a potentially habitable moon in our solar system
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Transistor issue resolved, NASA clears way for Europa Clipper launch
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After an exhaustive review of suspect transistors in NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, NASA managers have cleared the probe for launch next month ...
Two solar probes are helping researchers understand what phenomenon powers the solar wind
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Our Sun drives a constant outward flow of plasma, or ionized gas, called the solar wind, which envelops our solar system. Outside ...
NASA Considers Using Floating Clocks In Space To Tell Time On The Moon
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Illustration: Blue Origin The White House announced earlier this year it would implement a unified time standard for the Moon by 2027, ...
Watch Mars and Jupiter Appear to Almost Touch in a Rare Conjunction
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Two of Earth’s neighbors will appear awfully close in the sky on August 14, as the orbits of Mars and Jupiter make ...
If we want to settle on other planets, we’ll have to use genome editing to alter human DNA
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Saturn threw a comet out of the solar system at 6,700 mph. Here’s how
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A moon of Uranus could have a hidden ocean, James Webb Space Telescope finds
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NASA telescope spots a super Jupiter that takes more than a century to go around its star
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A super Jupiter has been spotted around a neighboring star by the Webb Space Telescope — and ...
Watch two plumes of ‘dark’ plasma explode from the sun and send solar storm towards Earth (video)
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