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Nearby super-Earth K2-18 b may be a water-rich ocean planet: ‘This has certainly increased the chances of habitability’

Submit on Thursday, July 31st, 2025 17:11

The search for life beyond the solar system is heating up. Though biosignatures around super-Earth K2-18b remain unconfirmed, the JWST has found the planet could be a water-rich ocean world.

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Watch SpaceX launch Crew-11 astronauts to the ISS for NASA today

Submit on Thursday, July 31st, 2025 11:11

The four astronauts of SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission are scheduled to launch toward the International Space Station today (July 31), and you can watch the action live.

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Powerful NISAR Earth-observing satellite loaded up for launch in India | Space photo of the day for July 30, 2025

Submit on Thursday, July 31st, 2025 10:21

The satellite will scan the Earth twice every 12 days.

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Collaboration or collapse: Why Earth observation must be a global mission

Submit on Thursday, July 31st, 2025 10:21

Satellites don’t stop at borders and neither should science.

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Saturn’s largest moon Titan casts a colossal shadow in breathtaking amateur portrait (photo)

Submit on Thursday, July 31st, 2025 10:21

Efrain Morales captured the image of Titan’s shadow darkening Saturn on July 18, while the gas giant was over 800 million miles from Earth.

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Good news for Mars settlers? Red Planet glaciers are mostly pure water ice, study suggests

Submit on Thursday, July 31st, 2025 10:21

Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any explorers that might land there one day, a new study finds.

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Kate Rubins, 1st astronaut to sequence DNA in space, leaves NASA

Submit on Thursday, July 31st, 2025 10:21

NASA astronaut Kathleen “Kate” Rubins has retired from the space agency after 16 years, two missions on the International Space Station, four spacewalks and 300 days in space.

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US Space Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane launching Aug. 21 to test quantum sensor and laser-communications tech

Submit on Thursday, July 31st, 2025 10:21

The U.S. Space Force plans to launch the eighth mission of its mysterious X-37B space plane on Aug. 21 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The flight will study experimental technology in orbit.

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