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NASA's Juno spacecraft detects strange new auroras on Jupiter

Researchers from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), where Juno's UVS instrument was built, suggest these auroral emissions are triggered by charged particles coming from the edge of Jupiter's massive magnetosphere, according to a statement from the ...

What's up with this weird green rock on Mars? Perseverance rover is trying to find out.

Perseverance's laser hasn't yet penetrated the mystery of a strange Martian rock near the rover's new digs. NASA's rover is waiting for its companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, to make the first-ever powered flight on another planet. Meanwhile, its instruments ...

NASA estimates COVID-19 pandemic will cost the agency $3 billion, plus delays

In a report from the NASA Office of Inspector General published March 31, agency personnel compiled the pandemic's impact on dozens of projects, ranging from aircraft development to space station missions to new planetary science spacecraft. The ...

Interstellar visitor Borisov could be 1st truly pristine comet yet seen

EarthSky

EarthSky

Comet 2I/Borisov is the 2nd known object to pass near our sun from outside our solar system. Its 2019 pass near our sun might have been its first-ever interaction with a star. If so, it's among the most pristine, or unspoiled, objects yet known. Sharing is caring!

Space Can Take a Nasty Toll On An Astronaut's Heart, Study Finds

TIME

TIME

In this SpaceX handout image, a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft launches on the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard at Launch Complex 39A ...

ProteinGAN: A generative adversarial network that generates functional protein sequences

The generator tries to fool the discriminator by generating sequences that will eventually look like real ones (the generator never actually sees real enzyme sequences). Credit: Repecka et al. Proteins are ...

Greenland's Lakes Are Vanishing During Winter as Well as Summer

Scientific American

Scientific American

Enormous lakes atop the Greenland ice sheet have a habit of suddenly vanishing: One moment they're there, and the next they're rapidly draining through holes in the ice. Some scientists believe these events can increase the rate at which ice is being lost ...

Lava tubes in Hawaii could be a dress rehearsal for Mars colonies

Livescience.com

Livescience.com

There, mission crew members navigate uneven volcanic terrain and endure the physical constraints of performing research in a hostile environment. Wearing bulky suits like those required for extraterrestrial exploration, the scientists study the geology and ...

Piece of SpaceX rocket debris lands at Washington state farm

The approximately 5-foot (1.5-meter) composite-overwrapped pressure vessel used for storing helium left a nearly 4-inch (10.16-centimeter) dent in the ground, Grant County sheriff's spokesman Kyle Foreman said. No one was hurt, he said.

Billions of cicadas to emerge in US for first time in 17 years: What to know

CNET

CNET

Periodical cicadas, as they're known, spend almost their whole lives a foot or two underground, living on sap from tree roots. Then, in the spring of their 13th or 17th year, mature cicada nymphs burrow out from the ground for a short adult stage, synchronously ...