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Posted on May 8, 2025

What will happen to VIPER? NASA shifts into reverse on canceled moon rover

NASA is no longer asking U.S. companies for proposals to get the ice-hunting VIPER rover to the moon but still hasn't given up on the mission.
Posted on May 8, 2025

Planet hunter Plato gets its eyes | Space photo of the day for May 7, 2025

Plato, the European Space Agency's terrestrial planet hunter spacecraft, is seen after having 24 of its 26 cameras installed.
Posted on May 8, 2025

Earth’s skies pulse in sync with the sun’s solar flares

Earth's atmosphere pulses in sync with the sun's fiery outbursts, indicating it is more sensitive to solar activity than previously thought, according to new research.
Posted on May 8, 2025

Our moon may have once been as hellish as Jupiter’s super volcanic moon Io

The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and even from the ground itself.
Posted on May 7, 2025

‘Eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the sun’: Elon Musk explains his drive to colonize Mars

Elon Musk explained the rather depressing fate of life on Earth to Fox News host Jesse Waters, who had asked him why humanity should go to Mars.
Posted on May 7, 2025

NASA diagnoses fracture in a ‘huge cosmic bone’ using X-ray observatory

A combination of X-ray from NASA's Chandra observatory and radio data indicates that a galactic "fracture" was likely caused by a special neutron star called a pulsar.
Posted on May 7, 2025

James Webb Space Telescope finds water in the air of exotic ‘sub-Neptune’ exoplanet

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has found water vapor swirling in the air of a distant, boiling-hot alien planet, a new study reports.
Posted on May 7, 2025

Sun unleashes jaw-dropping filament eruption — but Earth dodges the blast (photo)

GOES-19 satellite captures breathtaking footage as a towering solar filament erupts over the sun's eastern limb.
Posted on May 7, 2025

3D-print a realistic supernova remnant with NASA’s new models of Chandra X-ray images

New 3D-printable models of Chandra X-ray Observatory images will allow you to hold a star in your hands and touch a supernova remnant.
Posted on May 7, 2025

Lunar laser: China makes 1st daytime laser-ranging measurement from Earth to the moon

China has achieved a milestone feat, making the first-ever laser ranging measurement from Earth to the moon during the daytime.

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