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Venus balloon aerobot completes 1st test flights
Engineers and scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory successfully conducted 2 test flights of a robotic Venus balloon prototype.
October 17, 2022
A supernova warning sign: When massive stars dim
Scientists have found a supernova warning sign. They said massive stars - from 8 to 20 solar masses - will dramatically dim before exploding.
October 16, 2022
Earth-like ocean planets plentiful for red dwarf stars?
Researchers in Japan say that Earth-like ocean planets orbiting red dwarf stars may be fairly common. Up to about 10% may have oceans similar to our own.
October 14, 2022
Ringed star shows light can push matter
Wolf-Rayet 140 is a unique binary ringed star system that shows its intense light pushes dust into these rings as the pair of stars orbit each other.
October 13, 2022
Lucy spacecraft to fly closely past Earth Sunday
The Lucy spacecraft is heading to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. On October 16, 2022, the spacecraft will get a gravity assist from Earth.
October 13, 2022
Creating alien lava worlds in the lab
Scientists at Cornell University are creating alien lava worlds in the lab. They are replicating the surfaces of rocky exoplanets that are volcanically active.
October 12, 2022
Proxima Centauri discovered on this date
Astronomers thought Alpha Centauri was the closest star to Earth. Then they found a smaller, fainter star that's even closer. They named it Proxima Centauri.
October 12, 2022
DART impact changed asteroid’s orbit, NASA confirms
The DART impact of asteroid Didymos B was intended to charge the asteroid's orbit by 73 seconds. But DART surpassed this benchmark by more than 25 times.
October 11, 2022
Launches: CAPSTONE stabilized by recovery software
Engineers say CAPSTONE is stabilized after uploading recovery software and regaining control of the malfunctioning spacecraft.
October 11, 2022
How likely is an Earth-like origin of life elsewhere?
Retired astrophysicist Daniel Whitmire says that an Earth-like origin of life (abiogenesis) is probably very likely on other rocky worlds similar to our own.
October 10, 2022
