Europa Clipper: Spacecraft blasts off to hunt alien life on a distant moon

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Experts raise concerns over new findings from NASA-backed study on Earth's atmosphere: 'Our findings are ... significant'

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NASA Reveals Spooky Eyes in Space, And They're Staring Straight at You

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Researchers deal a blow to theory that Venus once had liquid water on its surface | Scientists say an analysis of the planet’s atmosphere has revealed the interior of Venus is dry, suggesting it has never had the oceans of liquid water traditionally thought necessary for life to begin.

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NASA Reveals Jupiter Comets May Have Brought Water to Earth | Scientists have revived the theory that short-period comets could have played a crucial role in filling Earth's oceans with water.

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ESA and NASA satellites deliver first joint picture of Greenland Ice Sheet melting. Between 2010 and 2023, the Greenland Ice Sheet thinned by 1.2 metres on average. However, thinning across the ice sheet’s margin (the ablation zone) was over five times larger, amounting to 6.4 metres on average.

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Astronomers working with NASA's JWST have uncovered a new way for a planet to meet its end: plunging itself into its host star 🌌✨

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New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We’re still learning from it 🪐✨🔭

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Trump calls on NASA to destroy satellite tracking global carbon levels 🌍📉 and plant growth 🌱🌿.

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NASA scientists say our Sun's activity is on an escalating trajectory ☀️, outside the boundaries of the 11-year solar cycle. A new analysis suggests that the activity of the Sun has been gradually rising 📈 since 2008, for reasons we don't yet understand ❓.

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NASA discovered a bacteria that can ‘play dead’—and might have accidentally sent it to Mars 🦠🌌 | In a recent study, scientists have now worked out this sneaky bacterium’s secret: T. phoenicis can enter a state of deep hibernation 💤—one that evaded detection despite rigorous sterilization for spacecrafts 🚀.

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Moss survived in space for nine months, study finds 🌌🪴✨

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A NASA study predicts that 96% of the images from the ARRAKIHS mission will be contaminated by the light from the more than 500,000 devices that Starlink and other megaconstellations intend to launch 🌌🚀✨

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NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts📚🚀 - Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out.

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NASA’s Hubble Examines Cloud-9 ☁️✨, First of New Type of Object 🔭🪐

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NASA 🚀 Reveals 👀 New ✨ Details 🔎 About 🌑 Dark 🪐 Matter’s 🧲 Influence ⚡ on 🌌 Universe

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NASA reveals new details about dark matter influence on universe: « Scientists using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have made one of the most detailed, high-resolution maps of dark matter ever produced. »

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🚀 Curiosity rover discovers diverse organic molecules on Mars, including never-before-seen compounds. These chemicals, similar to life's building blocks on Earth, are preserved for an estimated 3.5 billion years.

🔬 The experiment, led by Amy Williams of the University of Florida, identified nitrogen- and sulfur-bearing molecules. However, it's impossible to confirm if they originated from ancient Martian life or geological processes.

🔭 This breakthrough by NASA's Curiosity, using the SAM instrument, highlights the potential for discovering signs of past life in Mars' shallow subsurface, particularly in clay-rich regions.

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⚡️ NASA's Juno mission has provided new evidence for the formation of high-energy particles, including cosmic rays, by capturing particles traveling near the speed of light around Jupiter.

🔭 The findings confirm that a process observed near Earth, where solar particles gain energy in a region called the foreshock, is also responsible for accelerating particles around Jupiter and potentially across the galaxy.

🔬 Juno measured high-speed electrons in Jupiter's foreshock, finding they reached even higher speeds than those near Earth, scaling with Jupiter's larger bow shock.

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In 15% of 196 NASA spaceflight missions from Apollo through 2024, crew experienced infections around launch, yet none led to a medical evacuation, severe in-orbit illness, or long-term health effects under NASA's pre-flight quarantine program

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