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Is a smoke-bomb planet our future?

That poisonous orange haze in New York was the 9/11 moment for climate change — or at least it should have been

Salon

A series of planets will line up and be visible to the naked eye this weekend

Mercury, Uranus, Jupiter, Neptune, and Saturn will line up in the event known as a planetary parade

Manchester Evening News

India-U.S. relationship more critical for space exploration: former NASA official

The relationship between India and the U.S. is absolutely critical on Earth and possibly even more so in space, a former top NASA official has said, describing India as a “sleeping giant” for whom the sky is no longer the limit.

The Hindu

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Virgin Galactic to send Italian researchers to space, then regular commercial flights

Virgin Galactic says it's aiming to launch its next flight at the end of June

The Independent UK

Virgin Galactic will launch its 1st commercial spaceflight on June 27

Virgin Galactic plans to launch its first commercial spaceflight on June 27, with the second following shortly thereafter in early August.

Space

Astronomers Finally Found the Origin of the Strangest Meteor Shower

The Geminids meteor shower is shrouded in mystery. But NASA's Parker Solar Probe is shining a light on some of its secret origins.

Inverse

'Weird' game of cosmic tug-of-war in the Tarantula Nebula weaves up new stars

Astronomers have observed the Tarantula Nebula at the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud, finding that powerful magnetic fields ensure its survival and regulate star birth.

Space

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The moon and Mercury meet in the bright red 'eye of the bull' early Friday morning

The moon and Mercury will come close to the red supergiant star Aldebaran, the brightest star of Taurus the bull, in the early morning sky on Friday (June 16).

Space

Geminid meteor shower spawned by violent asteroid smashup

The Geminid meteor shower, which happens every December, comes from a space rock with a comet-like tail. New research suggests a violent origin story.

Space

Final launch of Europe's powerful Ariane 5 rocket delayed indefinitely

The final liftoff of Europe's Ariane 5 rocket, targeted for Friday (June 15), has been delayed due to "a risk to the redundancy of a critical function" on the vehicle.

Space

UAP Reports Involve the Ocean Too, NASA Investigator Reveals

For its expansive UAP team, the space agency turned to oceanographer Paula Bontempi, an expert in how light interacts with water.

Inverse

Astronomers Find Evidence That a Giant Exoplanet Ate Its Neighbor

WASP-76b cannibalized a small, rocky exoplanet similar to Mercury, and astronomers recently spotted the evidence floating in the gas giant's atmosphere.

Inverse

Private space station: How Axiom Space plans to build its orbital outpost

Axiom Space is using the results of science experiments conducted on its private missions aboard the International Space Station to inform the design and use of the company's own orbital laboratory.

Space

Rocket Lab is set to launch a mystery mission from Virginia. What could it be?

Rocket Lab is gearing up to launch a mission from Virginia in the next few days, but you apparently won't be able to watch it live.

Space

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This 'postcard' of a Mars day from NASA's Curiosity rover is gorgeous (photo)

A striking new postcard from NASA's Curiosity rover shows the Marker Band Valley region of Mars in the morning and the afternoon.

Chicago Tribune

Nina Metz: The reality show ‘Stars on Mars’ is ‘Big Brother’ meets ‘The Martian’ — and a whole lot of propaganda

I’m not usually drawn to reality TV. But when physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein mentioned that she was watching the Fox series “Stars on Mars,” which premiered earlier this month, my interest was piqued.

Salon

James Webb highlights ancient galaxies

Plus, the lauded telescope detected the most extensive spray of water ever seen in space from Saturn's frozen moon

Chicago Sun-Times

Horoscope for Thursday, June 15, 2023

Avoid shopping or important decisions from 8 to 9 p.m. Chicago time. After that, the moon moves from Taurus into Gemini.

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Watch 2 NASA astronauts spacewalk outside space station today in this free livestream

Two NASA astronauts will conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday (June 15), and you can watch the excursion live.

Space

Ultra-hot exoplanet has an atmosphere of vaporized rock

Astronomers have taken a deeper look at the scorching hot giant exoplanet WASP-76b, where iron rains from the sky to determine the other chemical elements that comprise its blistering atmosphere.

Space

Saturn's moon Enceladus has all the ingredients for life in its icy oceans. But is life there?

For the first time, phosphorus — the rarest of six elements upon which life as we know it depends — has been found in a tiny ocean-bearing moon in our solar system.

Space

James Webb Space Telescope reveals how galaxies made the early universe transparent

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have determined that stars in early galaxies transformed the gas throughout the universe from opaque to transparent.

Space

Strange radio emissions from a feeding star puzzle astronomers

Astronomers studying the fastest and most dramatic nova ever recorded continue to find more puzzles than answers, most recently in the form of unexpected radio emissions.

Inverse

Mars Rover Sends a Stunning Panorama of the Red Planet Home to Earth

NASA's Curiosity Rover sent us this panorama postcard of its current scenic view of Gale Crater, overlooking an ancient lakebed where there was once water on Mars.

Space

Friendless 'hot Jupiter' exoplanets may not be so lonely after all

Jupiter-like exoplanets that are blisteringly close to their parent stars were long thought to be alone in their star systems. But a new study has now revealed that many of them might have companions.

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