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Watch Artemis 1's Orion spacecraft enter lunar orbit Friday

On Friday at 4:52 p.m. EST (2152 GMT), Orion is scheduled to perform an engine burn that will insert the spacecraft into a distant retrograde orbit (DRO) around the moon. You can follow all the action live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, beginning at ...

Artemis 1's Orion spacecraft captures stunning photos of the moon during its closest approach

The moon looks spectacular in images captured by NASA's Orion spacecraft as it cruised just 81.1 miles (130 kilometers) above the lunar surface during the Artemis 1 mission's closest approach to Earth's natural satellite on Monday (Nov. 21).

NASA's Orion spacecraft snaps a selfie on its journey beyond the far side of the moon

CNN

CNN

NASA released a selfie taken by the Orion capsule and close-up photos of the moon's crater-marked landscape as the spacecraft continues on the Artemis 1 mission, a 25-and-a-half day journey that will take it more than 40,000 miles beyond the far side ...

Possible organic compounds found in Mars crater rocks

A study published in Science analyses multiple rocks found at the bottom of Jezero Crater on Mars, where the Perseverance rover landed in 2020, revealing significant interaction between the rocks and liquid water. Those rocks also contain evidence ...

Gaze into the heavens with this Celestron Black Friday deal

The Celestron Powerseeker 127EQ is ideal for telescope beginners and actually serves casual astronomers well thanks to its inclusion of a German Equatorial mount. The Equatorial (EQ) mount comes with setting circles that can more accurately locate and ...

Webb telescope reveals blazing hourglass around forming star

The James Webb Space Telescope unveiled its latest image of celestial majesty on Wednesday, an ethereal hourglass of orange and blue dust being shot out from a newly forming star at its center. The colorful clouds are only visible in infrared light, ...

An ultra-short-period exoplanet discovered with TESS

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new ultra-short-period exoplanet. The newfound alien world, designated HD 20329 b, orbits its host star in slightly less than one day.

Scientists make unprecedented detection on a planet 700 light-years away

Mashable

Mashable

The powerful Webb telescope doesn't need to take pretty pictures to revolutionize our grasp of the cosmos. Astronomers focused the space observatory — which successfully reached its outpost one million miles from Earth this year — on the Saturn-like ...

James Webb: telescope uncovers chemical secrets of distant world – paving the way for studying Earth-like planets

The Conversation US

The Conversation US

Since the first planet orbiting a star other than the Sun was discovered in 1995, we have realised that planets and planetary systems are more diverse than we ever imagined. Such distant worlds – exoplanets – give us the opportunity to study how ...

This Week's Sky at a Glance, November 25 – December 3

SkyandTelescope.com

SkyandTelescope.com

This season, Mars shines brightly to the left of the tall stack of Orion, Aldebaran with the Hyades, and the Pleiades. □ Using a telescope, watch for Jupiter's moon Io to slowly ...