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Voyager 1 spacecraft has sent a (partly) decipherable message
The Voyager 1 spacecraft started sending gibberish back to Earth in November. Now engineers have sent it a "poke" and received a message they can decipher.
March 18, 2024
Are solar storms dangerous to us on Earth?
Activity on the sun affects Earth's magnetic field. It can cause geomagnetic storms and can create beautiful auroras. Are these solar storms dangerous?
March 18, 2024
Pieces of asteroid Bennu now on display for YOU!
Would you like to see a pristine sample of asteroid Bennu? Small fragments are now on display in Arizona, Texas and D.C. Learn more here.
March 17, 2024
Giant volcano on Mars hiding in plain sight
A newly found giant volcano on Mars erupted in "modern times" and could erupt again. It's the site of glacier ice, with implications for life and exploration.
March 15, 2024
How ice shells of ocean moons provide clues to habitability
Researchers at Cornell University say that scientists can determine the water temperature of ocean moons by measuring the thickness of their ice shells.
March 15, 2024
Interstellar signal linked to aliens was just a truck
New analysis of seismic waves recorded around the time the 2014 interstellar meteor hit Earth shows it was not an interstellar signal but a nearby truck.
March 14, 2024
Europa has enough oxygen to support a million people
Europa has enough oxygen to support 1 million people a day, but that's less than once thought. This could have implications for habitability in Europa's ocean.
March 13, 2024
A message to Europa from the people of Earth
NASA released images of the message to Europa that will be on the Europa Clipper. It contains a microchip with over 2.6 million names submitted by the public.
March 12, 2024
What are Hubble and Webb looking at right now?
The recently redesigned Space Telescope Live webapp gives up-to-the-minute information about what the Hubble and Webb space telescopes are observing.
March 10, 2024
See dozens of planet-forming disks in groundbreaking survey
A new survey looked at 86 young stars and their planet-forming disks in 3 gas clouds in our own Milky Way. See the wide variety of dusty disks here.
March 6, 2024
