For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometres from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometres an hour. It ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
For centuries, Jupiter reigned as king of the moons. Initially, the Big Four, discovered by Galileo, and then as optics and ...
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The Flame Nebula, located 1,400 light-years from Earth, is a region where many stars are forming and is less than a million ...
Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.
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Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than ...
The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years ...
About 650 light-years from here, in the constellation Aquarius, lies the planetary nebula Caldwell 63, commonly known as the ...
Space scientists say they have located a planet killer capable of ripping worlds to pieces. Researchers believe they've found ...