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Springtime on Mars: Hubble's Best View of the Red Planet

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The First City on Mars review: How to make life on Mars a reality

Living on Mars will take enormous work, but urban planner Justin Hollander is already on the case in this guide to settling the Red Planet

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Starship full stack

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Original Sin review: Was space flight tainted from the get-go?

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We need a new model of space governance to address today's challenges

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We need a new model of space governance to address today's challenges

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This image by NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope?s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) features the central region of the Chamaeleon I dark molecular cloud, which resides 630 light years away. The cold, wispy cloud material (blue, center) is illuminated in the infrared by the glow of the young, outflowing protostar Ced 110 IRS 4 (orange, upper left). The light from numerous background stars, seen as orange dots behind the cloud, can be used to detect ices in the cloud, which absorb the starlight passing through them.

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JWST has seen building blocks of life in a dark, cold cloud in space

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The Southern Ring Nebula. The left image highlights the very hot gas and the right image the stars

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Amazing JWST images show a nebula shaped by a multi-star system

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Majestic photographs of the world's major telescopes

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Majestic photographs of the world's major telescopes

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JWST has taken astonishing images of debris orbiting a nearby star

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Virgin Orbit

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First satellite launch from the UK failed due to an ‘anomaly’

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LARGE REGIONS OF ROCK AND METAL: PSYCHE ASTEROID ILLUSTRATION This illustration depicts the 140-mile-wide (226-kilometer-wide) asteroid Psyche, which lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche is the focal point of NASA?s mission of the same name. The Psyche spacecraft is set to launch in August 2022 and arrive at the asteroid in 2026, where it will orbit for 21 months and investigate its composition. Based on data obtained from Earth, scientists believe Psyche is a mixture of metal and rock. The rock and metal may be in large provinces, or areas, on the asteroid, as illustrated in this rendering. Observing and measuring how the metal and rock are mixed will help scientists determine how Psyche formed. Exploring the asteroid could also give valuable insight into how our own planet and others formed. The Psyche team will use a magnetometer to measure the asteroid?s magnetic field. A multispectral imager will capture images of the surface, as well as data about Psyche?s composition and topography. Spectrometers will analyze the neutrons and gamma rays coming from the surface to reveal the elements that make up the asteroid itself. The illustration was created by Peter Rubin. View or download the full resolution versions from NASA?s Photojournal Date Added: 03-29-2021 Credit: Peter Rubin

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Spacecraft are heading to a metal asteroid and Jupiter's moons in 2023

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Dark dunes surrounding Mars's northern polar cap

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Mars has enough wind to power bases near the poles all year round

An analysis of the wind energy available on Mars finds that one well-placed turbine could enable a group of six people to live near the poles all year round

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JWST captured the most thrilling and inspiring space images of 2022

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What our attempts to communicate with alien civilisations say about us

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Watch Orion capsule splash down as NASA’s Artemis I mission ends

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