Astronomers discover a possible water world in the search for a habitable planet, report says

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The James Webb space telescope.

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Scientists want to build telescopes on the moon for up to $10 billion to see more of the universe than the James Webb Space Telescope

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Two very different concepts for a radio observatory on the moon show how creative astronomers are getting.

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Voyager 1 briefly came back to life after a 'poke' from NASA, giving scientists hope for the 46-year-old probe

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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has been traveling through space for nearly 50 years.

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'The Nightmare Is Over': NASA Resurrects VERITAS Mission to Venus

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A long overdue mission to Venus is finally back on track after being put on hold due to budgeting and staffing issues at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

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NASA's Voyager 1 Spacecraft Briefly Reconnects, Keeping Hope Alive for the Historic Mission

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The Voyager 1 spacecraft sent a new signal that contains valuable data, which may save the aging probe. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are currently looking for discrepancies in the message in order to find out why the spacecraft—the farthest piece of human technology from Earth—has been speaking…

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NASA is hiring astronauts for $152K a year. Here's how to stand out from the thousands of other applicants, according to the selection manager

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The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission (left to right): NASA astronauts Christina Hammock Koch, Reid Wiseman (seated), Victor Glover, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

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NASA Probe Finds Tons of Oxygen Spewing From Ocean Moon

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In our top science stories this week, data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft helped scientists calculate how much oxygen is being produced on the intriguing Jovian moon Europa (enough for a million humans to breathe a day, according to the study). Back on Earth, a German man got 217 covid-19 shots and is apparently doing…

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Weekend Science Roundup March 09, 2024

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Jupiter’s icy moon Europa produces plenty of oxygen every day, according to new findings based on data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The moon has long been of interest to astrobiologists because of the possibility that life could exist in its subsurface ocean. - Isaac Schultz Read More

What happened to the extra copies of the Voyager mission's golden records

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Elon Musk wrote in an X post on Wednesday that he has one of the Golden Records.

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Jupiter's moon Europa generates enough oxygen to keep a million people alive for a day, NASA says

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This illustration of Europa shows how its icy surface may shine even on its night side, because Jupiter is constantly bombarding it with radiation.

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