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Paul Scott Anderson
How Webb will explore our own solar system
The greatly anticipated Webb telescope will be able to observe objects in our own solar system, as explained in anew NASA blog post.
May 25, 2022
InSight mission’s fate sealed by Martian dust
NASA announced on Tuesday that it is winding down the InSight lander mission on Mars, due to increasing dust on its solar panels.
May 18, 2022
New 5.0 marsquake is biggest yet detected
NASA's InSight lander has just detected the biggest marsquake so far in its mission. Insight felt "the big one," a record magnitude 5.0, on May 4, 2022.
May 17, 2022
1st UFO hearing in Congress in 50 years
Congress held first UFO hearing in over 50 years on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. It was the first such hearing since Project Blue Book. Read more here.
May 17, 2022
TESS finds 30 exocomets for Beta Pictoris
An international team of astronomers has discovered 30 exocomets orbiting the young star Beta Pictoris, 64 light-years away from Earth.
May 11, 2022
Webb fully aligned! See the new test images
NASA's Webb telescope has finished aligning all of its science instruments. The new test images are a taste of what's to come.
May 8, 2022
Mars helicopter spots rover’s landing gear debris
NASA's Mars Helicopter has sent back some incredible new photos of the backshell and parachute that helped the Perseverance rover land over a year ago.
May 4, 2022
Plate tectonics clues found in ancient crystals
A new study of ancient zircon crystals found in South Africa and other locations shows that plate tectonics on Earth began about 3.8 billion years ago.
May 1, 2022
Do Europa’s odd ridges indicate life?
Europa's odd ridges may form similarly to those in Greenland. The ridges occur over subsurface pockets of potentially habitable water in the moon's ice shell.
April 27, 2022
Do Io’s enigmatic dunes form from lava and frost?
Researchers at Rutgers say they can finally explain how Io's enigmatic dunes form, despite the moon's extremely thin atmosphere and weak winds.
April 27, 2022
