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How we sharpened the James Webb telescope’s vision from a million kilometres away

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA’s US$10 billion (AU$15 billion) James Webb Space Telescope. There had not been such a leap forward in telescope technology since Hubble was launched in 1990.

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NASA's Juno probe orbiting Jupiter may have come to an end, but no one can confirm

The U.S. government shut down the same day Juno's last mission extension expired, putting the status of the mission in limbo.

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Earth-size stars and alien oceans – an astronomer explains the case for life around white dwarfs

Could an ocean – likely needed to sustain life – even survive on a planet orbiting close to a dead star?

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Earth-size stars and alien oceans – an astronomer explains the case for life around white dwarfs

The Sun will someday die. This will happen when it runs out of hydrogen fuel in its core and can no longer produce energy through nuclear fusion as it does now. The death of the Sun is often thought of as the end of the solar system. But in reality,…

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A real-life Pandora? Newfound 'disappearing' planet in our neighboring star system could have a habitable moon, just like the Avatar movies

The recent discovery of a potential gas giant circling the nearby star Alpha Centauri A has led to speculation that it may be orbited in turn by a habitable moon that could support life, just like in the "Avatar" movies.

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All Whisper Data Pad locations in Destiny 2 Edge of Fate (Pinnacle Data Pad Retrieval Part 3)

"You shall drift."

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Finding corrupted images is devastating, but what happens when that camera is 370 million miles away? NASA shares how it saved the busted camera aboard Jupiter’s Juno

How do you repair a camera that’s orbiting another planet, 370 million miles away?

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55 Photos So Interesting They Feel Illegal To Look At Without Protective Eyewear

A world of wonders, one scroll away.

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You think you know the moon? NASA scientists say think again

A new technique using data gathered by a spacecraft has helped peer back billions of years

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Volcanoes shaped the moon from the inside out, scientists find: 'Our team was genuinely puzzled'

Data from NASA's GRAIL mission reveals evidence of ancient volcanic heat still influencing the moon's internal structure.

Space

A tiny glass bead from the moon offers clues to its hidden interior

A glass bead retrieved by China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission is offering a glimpse into the moon's hidden interior and violent past.

Space

Our moon may have once been as hellish as Jupiter's super volcanic moon Io

The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and even from the ground itself.

Space

Cyclones on Jupiter and a moon with flowing magma: NASA Juno probe's latest discoveries are awesome

NASA's mission to Jupiter has revealed new findings about the giant planet and its volcanic moon.

Space

Saturn now has 274 moons – but exactly what makes something a moon remains unclear

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 moons, the most of…

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Jupiter's 'tormented moon' Io just unleashed the most powerful volcanic event ever seen

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in this area are chucking out six times the energy being produced by all Earth's power stations, researchers say.

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Heavy volcanic eruption on Jupiter's Io

The Juno probe spotted some incredible volcanic activity on Io, our solar system’s most volcanic moon

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NASA's Juno spacecraft watches most powerful volcanic event ever seen on Jupiter's moon Io

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the most powerful volcanic eruption ever seen on the solar system's most volcanic body, the Jovian moon Io.

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The Moon Might be Older Than We Previously Thought

A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician dive into the science behind the age of the moon.

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The Moon might be older than scientists previously thought − a new study shines light on its history

A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case, it was the start of an idea that could reshape how scientists think about the history of the Moon.

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The moon may be 100 million years older than we thought

The moon may have received a volcanic facelift, making it more than 100 million years older than rocks collected from its surface might suggest, a new study finds.

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NASA solves 44-year-old mystery of why Jupiter's Io is so volcanically active

Io is the most volcanically active world in our solar system. Now, NASA scientists have revealed how and why.

Space

What causes volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's moon Io? Scientists aren't so sure anymore

New measurements from NASA's Juno probe have seemingly put to bed the possibility of a magma ocean beneath the surface of Io.

Space

Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft finds its voice again as NASA restores communications

Voyager 1 is shouting across the cosmos again, following a glitch that had seen it inadvertently switch to its low-power transmitter.

Space

Magnetic tornadoes on Jupiter are spawning Earth-size storms

Magnetic vortices twisting down from Jupiter's ionosphere into its deep atmosphere cause giant, ultraviolet-absorbing polar anticyclones, each the size of our Earth.

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China reveals secrets of 1st sample taken from the far side of the moon — and it contains a volcanic surprise

Active volcanoes were erupting on the far side of the moon 2.8 billion years ago, the first lunar samples returned from the far side reveal.

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