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Europe signs contract for its 1st moon lander, Argonaut

Submit on Friday, February 7th, 2025 01:11

The Argonaut moon lander one way the European Space Agency is getting involved in international lunar exploration endeavors.

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

Submit on Thursday, February 6th, 2025 22:11

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.

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

Submit on Thursday, February 6th, 2025 21:11

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.

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Temperamental stars could be ruining our view of thousands of exoplanets, Hubble Telescope finds

Submit on Thursday, February 6th, 2025 20:11

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting observations of some exoplanets.

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The moon will be unusually high in the sky tomorrow. Here’s why

Submit on Thursday, February 6th, 2025 18:11

Even to a casual viewer, the waxing gibbous moon of Feb. 7 will appear quite unusual, climbing so very high in the sky.

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‘This idea that it takes like 250 years for Pluto to orbit the sun, I think that’s just bizarre.’ Star Trek scion Adam Nimoy talks our favorite (dwarf) planet for ‘I Heart Pluto’ festival

Submit on Thursday, February 6th, 2025 06:11

Filmmaker Adam Nemoy helps celebrate the 90th anniversary of Pluto’s discovery this month at the 6th annual ‘I Heart Pluto’ festival from Feb. 13-17.

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Giant planet or ‘failed star?’ Newfound mystery world blurs the lines

Submit on Thursday, February 6th, 2025 04:11

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new giant “planet,” plus a new brown dwarf.

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New ‘Star Wars: The Mask of Fear’ novel stars Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, and Saw Gerrera (interview)

Submit on Thursday, February 6th, 2025 04:11

Acclaimed “Star Wars” author Alexander Freed discusses his new “Star Wars: The Mask of Fear” novel

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