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A Physicist Wants to Turn Jupiter’s Largest Moon Into a Gigantic Dark Matter Detector

Sun, 08/24/2025 - 08:00

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NASA launches a probe to find out if there really could be alien life on Jupiter's moon Europa

Mon, 10/14/2024 - 12:58

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giant white rocket lifting off from a launchpad in a wide flat swamp — A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off carrying NASA's Europa Clipper mission.
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Shapeshifting in Ways ‘Never Identified Before’

Thu, 10/10/2024 - 12:35

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Hurricane Milton’s Imminent Landfall Officially Delays NASA Mission to Jupiter

Mon, 10/07/2024 - 17:15

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A storm encroaching on Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Watch Stunning Timelapse of First Ever Lunar-Earth Flyby

Wed, 08/28/2024 - 17:10

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Juice Images Earth During Lunar Earth Flyby

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How to See a Spacecraft Slingshot Around Earth on Monday Night

Sun, 08/18/2024 - 17:25

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Esa Juice Earth Moon Flyby Gravity Assist

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Watch Mars and Jupiter Appear to Almost Touch in a Rare Conjunction

Tue, 08/13/2024 - 16:00

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An image of Jupiter and Mars in conjunction morning of October 20, 2015.

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How to see the year's best meteor shower this weekend, with fireballs, colorful trails, and a Jupiter-Mars conjunction

Fri, 08/09/2024 - 13:54

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night sky with meteors shooting stars bright white streaks and one extra bright fireball above a rocky hillside of evergreen trees — The Perseids meteor shower, known for its fireballs and bright tails.
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Signs of Life Could Be Found Close to the Surface of Two Nearby Moons

Sat, 07/20/2024 - 09:00

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Plumes of shoot out of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

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Classical Astronomers Observed a Different Great Red Spot on Jupiter

Thu, 06/20/2024 - 14:05

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In 1665, astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini observed a massive storm raging on Jupiter. It became known as the Great Red Spot, a swirling oval of clouds that’s almost twice as wide as Earth. New research, however, suggests that the red-hued feature spotted by Cassini is not the same storm we see today.

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