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Scientists grow plants in lunar soil
Scientists were able to grow plants in lunar soil. They weren't quite as robust as those grown in earthly soil. But it's a key step for future space missions.
May 22, 2022
Video: Starlink satellite train passes over
A sky photographer captured the a train of Starlink satellites on May 16, 2022, two days after Spacex launched them on May 14, 2022.
May 20, 2022
Voyager 1 mystery: Sending random data
Voyager 1, the most distant humanmade object from Earth, has been sending back strange data, a mystery scientists are trying to solve.
May 19, 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
New black hole image: 4 things we know
Astronomers released a long-sought image of our Milky Way's supermassive black hole yesterday. Here are 4 things we know.
May 13, 2022
Milky Way’s black hole seen at last!
Astronomers have succeeded in capturing the 1st direct image of our Milky Way's black hole, a monster with the mass of 4 million suns!
May 13, 2022
Supermassive black hole a feature of most galaxies
A large galaxy typically has a supermassive black hole at its heart. These black holes contains millions - to billions - of times our sun's mass.
May 12, 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
Asteroids photobombed deep Hubble images
When astronomers realized that asteroids photobombed deep space images from Hubble, citizen scientists got to work. The result: over 1,000 new asteroid discoveries!
May 10, 2022
