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Jaw-dropping NASA image reveals a dying star at the heart of the Helix Nebula — and it may have just murdered a planet

A new view of the Helix Nebula reveals a dying white dwarf star at the nebula's center. This star's violent eating habits could be responsible for strange X-ray emissions in the region.

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SpaceX Fram2 astronauts see their Florida launch site from space as historic pole-orbiting mission nears its end (video)

SpaceX's Fram2 astronauts are sharing incredible views from the first human spaceflight to orbit Earth's poles, as their mission nears a conclusion.

Space

Major storms on Jupiter can leave a fingerprint in the planet's atmosphere

Big storms can strip some parts of Jupiter's atmosphere of ammonia, while leaving buried reservoirs of the gas elsewhere.

Space

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Asteroid that caused panic about deadly collision with Earth is huge, Nasa finds

Webb telescope captures first images of once-feared space object

The Independent UK

Blue Origin’s all-female space flight urges women to shoot for the stars – but astronaut memoirs reveal the cost of being exceptional

For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will enter orbit with only women aboard. Blue Origin’s all-female space flight crew, which includes popstar Katy Perry, is set to take off this spring.

The Conversation

Extreme magnetic fields near our galaxy's black hole are preventing stars from being born, JWST discovers

New James Webb Space Telescope images of the stellar nursery Sgr C, near the galactic center, reveal why it contains fewer stars than expected.

Space

The utterly beautiful destruction of a planet: Space photo of the day

The Helix nebula may point to the ultimate fate of our sun — and Earth.

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Powerful solar winds squish Jupiter's magnetic field 'like a giant squash ball'

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.

Space

NASA proves its electric moon dust shield works on the lunar surface

New NASA shielding technology that protects against damaging lunar dust just passed a trial run on the moon, marking an important milestone in the agency's lunar aspirations.

Space

Rocket Lab: $5.6 Billion Defense Contract Fuels RKLB’s Future

Rocket Lab has been awarded a spot in the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 contract, allowing it to compete for U.S. DoD launch orders.

MarketBeat

China's Concorde: What we know about the planned C949 jet that could revive supersonic air travel

Chinese media reported that the C949 would have a 50 per cent range boost over the retired Concorde and fly with a noise level like a blowing hairdryer.

Euronews

What's the difference between a young exoplanet and an old one?

A new study compares young and old exoplanets to uncover how worlds shrink, migrate and evolve over time — offering insights into long-standing astronomical mysteries like the "hot Neptune desert" and the "radius valley."

Space

NASA's Webb telescope captures photos of the asteroid that won't hit Earth in 2032

NASA's Webb telescope has captured pictures of the asteroid that caused a stir earlier this year when it topped Earth's hit list

The Independent UK

NASA's SPHEREx telescope 'opens its eyes on the universe', taking stunning debut image of 100,000 galaxies and stars

SPHEREx's first images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the telescope is working according to its design.

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Plush polar bear with penguin art floats as Fram2 zero-g indicator in polar orbit

The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest.

Space

Northern Lights in Mexico? Low-latitudes may be more vulnerable than expected to geomagnetic storms

Mother's Day 2024 heralded Mexico's most powerful geomagnetic storm in two decades. Here's why scientists say this is something to track.

Space

NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope takes its 1st cosmic images: 'The instrument team nailed it'

NASA's new infrared telescope named "SPHEREx" has officially opened its eyes to the cosmos.

Space

'I’d get on in a heartbeat': Starliner astronauts would fly on Boeing spacecraft again despite malfunctions (video)

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore both say they'd ride on Boeing's Starliner again, despite the issues the capsule had on its first crewed flight.

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Déjà vu: President Trump nominates Greg Autry again to be NASA's financial chief

President Trump has nominated space policy expert Greg Autry to be NASA's chief financial officer, as he did back in 2020 to no avail.

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No Anode, No Problem: The Battery Breakthrough That May Enable 500-Mile EVs

A lithium-ion battery may have fewer parts than a combustion engine, but it's no less complex. It involves an intricate interplay of materials that influences an electric vehicle’s range, charging speed, performance and lifespan. Battery makers are racing to optimize all of the above, with chemistries that can minimize the…

Space

Million-mile-long solar whirlwind could help solve sun's greatest mysteries (video)

Europe's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has chronicled the development of the magnetic escape of plasma driven out by a powerful magnetic reconnection event.

Space

NASA's X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet aces key 'cruise control' test ahead of 1st flight

NASA's "quiet" new supersonic jet, the X-59, just passed a key engine test, bringing it closer to its first flight later this year.

LiveScience

Giant, near-perfect cloud ring appears in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — Earth from space

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Space

Scientists used JWST instruments 'wrong' on purpose to capture direct images of exoplanets

The JWST was used in a creative way to capture direct images of distant worlds.

The Conversation

How to engineer microbes to enable us to live on Mars

A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from golden rice, which is genetically engineered to provide vitamin A, to advances stemming from the Human Genome Project, which successfully mapped the entire human genome. Prominent voices in biotechnology have…

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