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Life On 'Death Star'? Saturn Moon Mimas Has Hidden Ocean

Saturn's small moon Mimas seems an unlikely suspect in the hunt for life in Earth's backyard -- it is probably best known for looking like the "Death Star" in the Star Wars films.

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Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ moon has hidden ocean under its crust, say scientists

Calculations suggest a 45-mile-deep internal body of water lurks beneath Mimas’s 15-mile-thick icy shell

The Guardian - UK

Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas may have an ocean scientists never believed could exist

Astronomers have made a shock discovery that Saturn's moon Mimas seems to have a liquid ocean beneath its surface, potentially redefining our search for life on alien moons.

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Big, dead European satellite will crash back to Earth this month

The European Space Agency's defunct ERS-2 spacecraft will fall into Earth's atmosphere in a week or so, in a death dive that its handlers will monitor carefully.

Space

Humans on Mars could conduct far better science than any machine

NASA's moon-to-Mars strategy identifies science as one of three pillars upon which the agency's quest for a sustained human presence throughout the solar system is built.

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What's the forecast for Neptune-like exoplanets: Cloudy or clear?

Do the Milky Way's most common planets, mini-Neptunes, have atmospheres filled with opaque clouds or a more transparent haze?

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Moon cargo like human ashes, drink containers spark legal debate

Unconventional plans to exploit the moon, including using it for human ashes and sports-drink containers, raise concerns about oversight and legal questions.

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab laying off 8% of its workforce

Budgetary issues have forced the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA's chief center for robotic planetary exploration, to reduce its workforce by about 8%.

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Lunar astronauts could potentially make hummus with moon-grown chickpeas

A team of researchers has grown chickpeas in simulated moondust for the first time.

Space

SpaceX targeting Feb. 14 for launch of Intuitive Machines IM-1 private moon mission

SpaceX is targeting Feb. 14 for the launch of Intuitive Machine's IM-1 mission, which aims to become the first private effort to soft-land on the moon.

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Don’t shoot for it: shrinking moon sees hours-long quakes and landslides

As the moon’s core cools, it causes shriveling, creating ripples tens of meters high across its surface

The Guardian - US

NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy probe heads back toward Earth after acing crucial engine burn

Thanks to a powerful engine burn on Feb. 3, NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy spacecraft is on its way back to Earth for a Christmas-time rendezvous this year.

Space

Asteroid 2024 BX1 fragments confirmed to be rare meteorites as old as the solar system itself

When asteroid 2024 BX1 exploded over Earth it littered the planet with rare meteorites that are similar in composition to the unspoiled building blocks of our planet.

Space

Jupiter's volcanic moon Io looks outstanding in these close flyby photos from NASA's Juno probe

During its second close rendezvous with Jupiter's volcanic moon, NASA's Juno spacecraft collected some amazing images of the scene.

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Virgin Galactic mothership loses alignment pin during space plane launch, FAA investigating

Virgin Galactic informed the FAA that the mothership of its space plane VSS Unity lost a piece of hardware on its most recent suborbital flight.

Evening Standard

Your horoscope for the whole of February

What's written in the stars for you this month?

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NASA exoplanet telescope discovers 'super-Earth' in its star's Goldilocks zone

NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has spotted a 'super-Earth' in the habitable zone of its red dwarf star, with indications it may have Earth-sized company.

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Planets' striking gravitational dance

Exoplanets, or planets outside the solar system, show striking examples of resonance

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James Webb Space Telescope could target tiny bright galaxies to shine light on dark matter

The James Webb Space Telescope could target tiny and bright galaxies in the early universe to unveil some secrets about the universe's most mysterious stuff, dark matter.

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879 days! Russian cosmonaut breaks record for total time spent in space

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has now racked up more than 879 days in space, breaking the record for most time spent off Earth.

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Ingenuity's final flight on Mars ends in unexpected rotor damage

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity took its final flight, sustaining damage to a rotor blade. Perseverance rover captured a view of its resting place.

Space

Solar maximum is coming, but we won't know it happened until 7 months after it's over

Solar maximum could occur as early as mid-2024 but scientists will have to wait seven months after it has occurred to be able to declare it has taken place. Why?

Space

NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter, broken and alone, spotted by Perseverance rover on Martian dune (photo, video)

NASA's Perseverance Rover took a photo of its broken companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, as it sat motionless on a dune on Feb. 4.

Evening Standard

Who is Oleg Kononenko? Russian cosmonaut breaks record for most time in space

The 59-year-old has spent the equivalent of almost two and a half years in space

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Earth isn't the only planet with seasons, but they can look wildly different on other worlds

Why does Earth have regular seasons when other planets don't?

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