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Posted on February 6, 2025

NASA’s Europa Clipper snaps its 1st starry image en route to Jupiter’s icy moon

See the stars captured by Europa Clipper's star trackers, NASA's spacecraft currently on its way to Jupiter's icy moon.
Posted on February 6, 2025

James Webb Space Telescope images bacteria-size dust grains — they’ll likely turn into exoplanets

The James Webb Space Telescope's new image spotlights dust grains in a distant protoplanetary disk, allowing astronomers to study how planets are formed in intricate detail.
Posted on February 6, 2025

Private FLIP moon rover replaces NASA’s cancelled VIPER on 2025 lunar south pole mission

Astrolab's FLIP moon rover has replaced NASA's VIPER vehicle on the first-ever mission of Astrobotic's Griffin lunar lander, which is scheduled to launch in late 2025.
Posted on February 5, 2025

NASA just gave these 9 companies $24 million to dream up Artemis moon mission tech

A bevy of space companies will lend a hand to NASA's moon goals under new contracts centered around the agency's upcoming Artemis missions.
Posted on February 4, 2025

Hubble Space Telescope spots a spectacular Bullseye in deep space (image)

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted a cosmic Bullseye galaxy, revealing evidence of a rare kind of galactic collision.
Posted on February 4, 2025

VIPER back from the dead? NASA asks US companies to partner on ice-hunting moon rover

NASA is asking U.S. companies for proposals to move forward with the ice-hunting VIPER moon rover, a $450 million project the agency canceled last summer.
Posted on February 3, 2025

Trump administration removes Apollo moon rock from White House Oval Office

Whether President Donald Trump still supports returning astronauts to the lunar surface remains to be seen, but one thing is for certain: the moon no longer has a place in his White House.
Posted on February 2, 2025

Magnificent communication: Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin tests Verizon satellite service in new ad

Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin has teamed up with Verizon to help promote the company's satellite-based solution to cell service "dead zones" in a new commercial.
Posted on January 31, 2025

NASA’s Juno spacecraft watches most powerful volcanic event ever seen on Jupiter’s moon Io

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the most powerful volcanic eruption ever seen on the solar system's most volcanic body, the Jovian moon Io.
Posted on January 31, 2025

New NASA space telescope SPHEREx to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can’t

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even the JWST can't exactly do.

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