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NASA's Artemis I mega moon rocket heads back to the pad ahead of third launch attempt

In this view looking up in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, all of the work platforms that surround the Artemis I Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft are fully retracted on March 16.

Don't miss the brilliant Taurid meteor shower next week

Indeed, Comet Encke is thought by some astronomers to be a piece of a huge comet that broke up 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. These comet break-ups are often caused by gravitational encounters with Earth or other planets.

IceCube neutrinos give us first glimpse into the inner depths of an active galaxy

The detection was made at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a massive neutrino telescope encompassing 1 billion tons of instrumented ice at depths of 1.5 to 2.5 kilometers below Antarctica's surface near the South Pole. This unique telescope ...

Mars: Could life itself have made the planet uninhabitable?

In return, they released into the atmosphere large amounts of CH4 (a.k.a., methane, from which they get their name), a potent greenhouse gas that accumulated and heated up the climate.

This month's Southern Taurids meteor shower will feature bright fireballs in the sky

A bright fireball is seen above Brkini, Slovenia, on November 12, 2015, during a Taurid swarm. This month, another swarm is upon us, with fireballs that can be seen in the sky throughout November.

Artemis 1 moon rocket 'ready to go' for Nov. 14 launch, NASA says

While NASA officials stressed in a media teleconference today (Nov. 3) that the agency's highly anticipated Artemis 1 moon mission will be challenging, they stated they are confident in the upcoming launch attempt on Nov. 14.

Ocean microbes get their diet through a surprising mix of sources, study finds

One of the smallest and mightiest organisms on the planet is a plant-like bacterium known to marine biologists as Prochlorococcus. The green-tinted microbe measures less than a micron across, and its populations suffuse through the upper layers of the ...

Underground Antarctic Observatory Unlocks New Era of Ghost Particle Astronomy

CNET

CNET

Hubble image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1068. NASA / ESA / A. van der Hoeven. About 47 million light- ...

NASA Is Studying a Private Mission to Boost Hubble's Orbit. Is It Worth the Risk?

Scientific American

Scientific American

No other orbital observatory has managed such consistent high performance for so many years, thanks to a series of repair and servicing missions by NASA astronauts. NASA staged five space shuttle missions to Hubble in low- ...

Tonga eruption's towering plume reached the third layer of Earth's atmosphere

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted underwater in January, it created a plume of ash and water that broke through the third layer of Earth's atmosphere. It was the highest-recorded ...