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NASA chief says 2023 will be a 'game-changing' year for space and aeronautics (video)

NASA closed out 2022 with a bang. The completion of the space agency's Artemis 1 mission, the successful first launch of its new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the return of the uncrewed Orion capsule after its trip around the moon, put a nice ...

Massive, months-long volcanic eruption roils Jupiter's moon Io

A massive volcanic eruption has been spotted emerging from Jupiter's moon Io. The eruption was observed in the Fall of 2022 using the Io Input/Output observatory (IoIO) by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) senior scientist Jeff Morgenthaler.

Perseverance rover marks 1 Mars year on Red Planet

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is wrapping up its prime mission on the Red Planet. The car-sized Perseverance rover landed on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021, kicking off an ambitious surface mission designed to last one Red Planet ...

Hubble Space Telescope spots ghostly light from ancient wayward stars

But spread throughout the universe are rogue stars that remain gravitationally untethered to others, wandering endlessly in the vastness of space. Although the light from these stars, which is known as intracluster light, was first discovered ...

James Webb telescope reveals Milky Way–like galaxies in young universe

New images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars—elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks—at a time when the universe was a mere 25% of its ...

New space missions will launch to the moon, Jupiter and a metal world in 2023

WAAY

WAAY

This year promises to be out of this world when it comes to space missions, launches and the next steps in cosmic exploration. In 2023, NASA will kick off a trek to a metal world, a spacecraft will drop off unprecedented asteroid samples on Earth, ...

Ancient humans had same sense of smell, but different sensitivities

If you had the grooming habits of a Neanderthal, perhaps it's a good thing your nose wasn't as sensitive to urine and sweat as a modern human's. And if you lived the hunting and gathering lifestyle of a Denisovan on the Asian steppes, your strong nose ...

Walter Cunningham, Last Surviving Apollo 7 Astronaut, Dies at Age 90

Discover Magazine

Discover Magazine

At age 8, he watched actors Wallace Beery and Clark Gable play naval aviators in the movie Hell Divers (1932), kickstarting his desire to someday become a pilot.

Newly Launched Solar Sail Is on Track to Unfurl in Low Earth Orbit

Gizmodo

Gizmodo

French aerospace company Gama launched its Gama Alpha solar sail mission to test out photonic propulsion technology, which keeps spacecraft in orbit without the need for fuel. The Gama Alpha cubesat was loaded on board a SpaceX Falcon ...

Massive, hidden sunspot blasts out enormous X-class flare — and Earth could soon be in the firing line

Livescience.com

Livescience.com

The epic eruption was detected on Jan. 3 by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), an Earth-orbiting spacecraft co-operated by NASA and the European Space Agency. SOHO spotted a bright stream ...