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Exploring Jupiter’s Icy Moon: NASA’s Europa Clipper Prepares for Launch
SciTechDaily· 4 days agoAssembled at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the Europa Clipper spacecraft...
Venus "far more volcanically active" than was thought, say scientists
Newsweek· 4 days agoVenus's plentiful volcanoes are still active, and may erupt at a similar rate to volcanoes on Earth,...
Sorry, Spock: 'Vulcan' planet spotted near famous star was just a mirage, NASA says
LiveScience· 18 hours agoA planet beyond the solar system that has been compared to Spock's homeworld Vulcan in the Star Trek...
Vulcan Vanishes: Real-Life Star Trek Planet Turns Out To Be Stellar Illusion
SciTechDaily· 18 hours agoNew research refutes the existence of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit 40 Eridani A, attributing detected signals to the star’s surface activity. A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani ...
Volcanic Activity on Venus 'Could be Comparable to That on Earth', According to New Study
IGN Videogames· 3 days agoScientists have found new evidence of volcanic activity reshaping the surface of Venus, which could...
Mars InSight Has One Last Job: Getting Swallowed by Dust on the Red Planet
Universe Today· 4 days agoNow, however, it’s acting as a dust collector, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) scientists couldn’t be happier. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE ...
NASA to Measure Moonquakes With Help From InSight Mars Mission
NASA· 2 days agoThe most sensitive instrument ever built to measure quakes and meteor strikes on other worlds is getting closer to its journey to the mysterious far side of the Moon. It’s one of two seismometers ...
Andromeda’s Supermassive Black Hole Feeding Habits Revealed by NASA’s Spitzer
SciTechDaily· 4 days agoNASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope images show streams of dust feeding the supermassive black hole in...
TESS finds intriguing world sized between Earth and Venus
Phys.org· 5 days agoCapturing transits—brief, regular dimmings of stars caused by the passage of orbiting worlds—is one...
NASA launches tiny CubeSat to set its sights on Earth
AccuWeather· 4 days agoNASA has launched the first of two research satellites to measure how much heat is lost to space...