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Curiosity Rover Captures Historic Image of Earth and Mars’ Moon Phobos

The image, released by NASA on September 13, features a rocky Martian landscape with Earth and Phobos visible in the upper right. An inset zooms in on the two celestial bodies for closer inspection.

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Hubble Captures Rosy View of Andromeda, Milky Way's Neighbor

Known as the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way, Andromeda sits about 2.5 million light-years away and spans roughly 152,000 light-years across, making it comparable in size to our galaxy.

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NASA Releases First Image of Deployed Solar Sail in Space

The solar sail, about half the size of a tennis court, relies on sunlight to create pressure, allowing it to navigate space without fuel. This technology is expected to be a game-changer for future missions, reducing fuel costs.

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NASA Transforms Cosmic Images into Sound, Revealing the Universe’s Hidden Symphony

Using data from Chandra, the James Webb, Hubble, and Spitzer space telescopes, scientists created a soundscape that starts from the neutron star at the center and moves outward.

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Hubble Captures Distant "Cosmic Fossil" Offering Insight into Early Universe

This dwarf spheroidal galaxy, much smaller and dimmer than typical galaxies, contains very little dust and has a stellar population that is skewed toward older stars.

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Scientists Recreate Mars’ Mysterious ‘Spiders’ in NASA Lab

The experiment confirmed the leading theory, known as the Kieffer model, which suggests that the spiders form when sunlight heats carbon dioxide ice, causing it to sublimate directly into gas.

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Scientists Discover 'Smiley Face' Crater on Mars, Offering Clues to Ancient Life

Chloride salts, left behind as Mars’ lakes evaporated, are crucial for understanding the Martian climate and could be key to detecting preserved signs of ancient microbial life.

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Scientists Confirm Earth Was Once a Giant Snowball, Triggering Evolutionary Boom

By examining the decay of uranium into lead within the zircons, they accurately dated the rocks to the Sturtian glaciation period, when Earth's climate underwent drastic changes.

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Cassini Discovers Ripples and Unique Methane-Ethane Composition in Titan’s Seas

While the ripples in these seas were small—reaching heights of 3.3 mm in open waters and 3.6-5.2 mm near coastal areas—the findings provide valuable clues about Titan's dynamic weather systems and liquid interactions.

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Scientists Discover Donut-Shaped Structure Inside Earth's Core

Researchers believe that this discovery will help them better understand how the magnetic field changes over time and its implications for planetary habitability, even on other celestial bodies.

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NASA's Perseverance Rover Begins Ambitious Climb to Crater Rim on Mars

The rover will climb 305 meters (1,000 feet) to reach the crater's rim, an area believed to have once harbored hydrothermal vents—locations that on Earth are linked to the origins of life.

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NASA Successfully Deploys Its Advanced Composite Solar Sail System

In the coming weeks, NASA will test the spacecraft's ability to maneuver using only the pressure of sunlight on the sail. These tests will help determine the effectiveness of the solar sail for future missions.

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Scientists Unveil the Mysterious Source of the Moon's Atmosphere

The findings indicate that impact vaporization from micrometeorites is the dominant process sustaining the Moon's atmosphere, accounting for about 70% of its formation.

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India’s Lunar Rover Uncovers Evidence of Moon’s Molten Past

This new data gives further credence to the idea that the Moon was once a hot, molten body following its formation, likely caused by a colossal impact between Earth and a Mars-sized protoplanet.

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Astrophotographers Capture Rare Alignment of Jupiter and Mars in the Night Sky

The two planets, which last appeared this close together over two years ago, dazzled skywatchers in the early morning hours, with a spectacle that won’t be seen again until 2033.

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Astronomers Discover a Brown Dwarf Escaping the Milky Way

The object, named CWISE J1249, is racing through space at an astonishing speed of more than 1 million kilometers per hour, marking the first time such a phenomenon has been observed.

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NASA Scientists Discover Massive Underground Water Reservoirs on Mars

The findings suggest that while the surface of Mars remains a barren desert, much of the water that once flowed in rivers and lakes millions of years ago has seeped into the planet's crust, where it has been preserved.

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Scientists Unveil New Clue in Solving Jupiter's Great Red Spot Mystery

The Great Red Spot is slowly diminishing in size, from 39,000 kilometers across in the 19th century to just 14,000 kilometers today. By comparison, Earth measures 12,742 kilometers in diameter.

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Scientists Discover Earth-Sized Planet in Habitable Zone, Raising Hopes for Extraterrestrial Life

The amount of starlight it receives falls between the levels Earth and Venus experience, making it a prime candidate for further study on the factors that determine planetary habitability.

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Ancient Martian Lake Larger Than Any on Earth Photographed by Mars Express

The lake, which existed around 3.7 billion years ago, covered an area of approximately 1.1 million square kilometers, or about the size of Egypt, and held enough water to fill the Caspian Sea three times over.

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Ancient Stars Near the Sun May Rewrite the History of the Milky Way

The study, which used data from the Gaia spacecraft, revealed that these ancient stars are located within the thin disk of the Milky Way—a region that was thought to have formed around 8 to 10 billion years ago.

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NASA Unveils Stunning Visualization of Global Carbon Dioxide Movement

The visualization, created using NASA’s advanced GEOS model, highlights the interconnectedness of the planet's atmosphere, revealing how CO2 emissions from different regions impact the entire world.

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Perseverance Rover Discovers Possible Signs of Ancient Life on Mars

This rock, marked by distinctive veins and spots, contains organic compounds that suggest it may have once harbored microbial life billions of years ago.

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Astroscale's ADRAS-J Captures Stunning Close-Ups of 15-Year-Old Space Debris

The ADRAS-J (Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan) spacecraft has successfully taken detailed images of the rocket part, which has been drifting in space for 15 years.

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Mars Rover Captures Image of Martian 'Snowman'

The image was taken in Jezero Crater. The rover has recently started ascending the crater's slopes, promising more intriguing images from new perspectives.