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In this handout image supplied by the European Space Agency on July 16, 2008, the Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on Mars, is pictured from ESA's Mars Express.ESA/Getty Images Taking a picture of Mars is not easy.Once light bounces off the planet, it can take between 3 to 22 minutes to travel to Earth so there aren't truly "live" images of Mars.

Astronomers had long assumed that Saturn's distinctive rings formed around the same time as the planet some 4.5 billion years ago in the earliest days of our Solar System.That assumption received a serious challenge from a 2019 analysis of data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, suggesting that the rings were just 10 million to 100 million years ago-a mere blink of an eye on cosmic time scales.

In recent decades, NASA has sent large spacecraft-Galileo and Cassini, respectively-to fly around Jupiter and Venus to explore the dozens of moons that exist in those planetary systems.The spacecraft investigated all manner of intriguing moons, from little radiation-saturated hellholes to a world covered in volcanoes.

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Last year, NASA rammed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into a tiny moonlet called Dimorphos, demonstrating a promising way to redirect a potential incoming killer asteroid to save life on Earth.Now, given the huge amount of scrutiny following the collision, scientists have made another surprising discovery: Dimorphos' much larger companion Didymos is spinning so fast, they say, that it's capable of shooting pieces of rubble into space, a puzzling conclusion that highlights the fact that asteroids aren't necessarily the inert lumps of rock they're often thought of, Scientific American reports.

An exhibition dedicated to the work of British architect Norman Foster has opened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, showcasing drawings and original models produced by the architect over the last six decades.The exhibition, which according to the Norman Foster Foundation is the largest-ever retrospective display of Foster's work, features around 130 of the architect's projects including the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Headquarters, Hong Kong International Airport and Apple Park.

ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs.Scientists have discovered six galaxies in the early universe that are so incomprehensibly massive that they pose a challenge to our basic understanding of the cosmos, reports a new study.The primordial galaxies existed just 500 to 700 million years after the Big Bang, yet they have masses that approach 100 billion times that of the Sun, making them almost as hefty as the modern Milky Way.

Scientists have been given an unprecedented glimpse into the birth of stars and the early stages of the universe, after a new image was released by the James Webb space telescope.The image shows a young cluster of stars, known as NGC 346, which is more than 200,000 light years from Earth.Scientists have taken a particular interest in the cluster, which is in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), because it resembles the conditions of the early universe when star formation was at its peak.

Astronomers found several candidates for hefty galaxies in the early Universe, including one with a possible stellar mass equivalent to 1 billion times that of the Sun.They appeared to the team as bright red "pinpricks" in a patch of sky the size of a marker dot drawn on a thumb held out at arm's length.

Less than two years ago, China took a small but significant step in its goal of becoming a space power.For the first time, the Asian giant sent a robotic spaceship to Oceanus Procellarum (Latin for Ocean of Storms), a vast lunar mare that looks like a huge dark spot from Earth.According to the China National Space Administration, it is the youngest terrain on the Moon.

A panel of women astronomers debuted a gorgeous view of the Universe when they started NASA's Tuesday keynote panel at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference.They unveiled the latest dazzling sight of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a star about to go supernova whose light took about 15,000 years to reach us.

As more robots and people travel to the moon in coming years, some researchers believe it's time to set a lunar time standard.NASA Johnson As U.S. clocks shift forward this weekend, many earthlings will find themselves momentarily confused about what time it is.But scientists say a far larger temporal problem is looming on the horizon: With multiple missions to the moon in the planning phase, it's time to set a Lunar time standard.

Sar2667 fell near the English Channel last night - and left a spectacular sight for stargazers



Anyone who happened to be up at 3am last night and looking up at the night sky might well have witnessed an exceptionally strange (and totally dazzling) sight indeed.An asteroid crashed into the earth and exploded mid-air, with the results being visible in areas of south England, Wales and northern France.

An asteroid illuminated the night sky over the English Channel on Feb. 13, as seen in Twitter videos taken in different cities across the south of England.(Video: Twitter @KadeFlowers/@fc_kova via Reuters)
An asteroid entered the Earth's atmosphere and burned up over the English Channel early Monday, in a colorful display captured by many residents under its path.

Asteroid 2023 DW will make a close approach to Earth on Feb. 14, 2046.NASA and other agencies are closely monitoring the asteroid to learn more about its projected path.NASA The asteroid 2023 DW was just discovered in late February.But NASA says it's tracking it closely to learn about its orbital path, because the asteroid "has a very small chance of impacting Earth" in 23 years.

A rock two-feet-wide last week hurtled toward Earth at 27,000 miles per hour - and exploded with an energy equivalent to eight tons of TNT into pieces that rained over McAllen, Texas.(That's 0.6 metres wide and 43,000 km per hour for you metric folks)
America's National Weather Service said a Geostationary Lightning Mapper instrument aboard one of its satellites detected a bright flash at around 17​​23 CST (2323 UTC) on February 15 over Southern Texas.

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If you're hoping for NASA's most advanced Mars rovers to detect life on the Red Planet, you'll probably have to hold out until some samples make it back to Earth.Take a new study, published in the journal Nature Communications, that had researchers investigate the capabilities of instruments used on Mars rovers by putting them through the wringer right here on Earth - with eyebrow-raising conclusions.

ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs.This past week, a part of the sun's surface broke off and started circling the sun's north pole almost as if it were a giant polar vortexand scientists don't know why.Space weather forecaster Tamitha Skov posted a video of the phenomena to Twitter, sharing her excitement.

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A photograph shows the European spacecraft JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) in a clean room at the ESA (European Space Agency) headquarters in Toulouse, southwestern France, on 5 April, 2022.Lionel Bonaventure, AFP Europe's JUICE spacecraft is all ready to embark on an eight-year odyssey through the Solar System to find out whether the oceans hidden under the surface of Jupiter's icy moons have the potential to host extraterrestrial life.

NASA's Orion spacecraft reached the farthest outbound point in its journey from Earth on Monday, a distance of more than 430,000 km from humanity's home world.This is nearly double the distance between Earth and the Moon and is farther than the Apollo capsule traveled during NASA's lunar missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Some of JWST's coolest discoveries so far have happened thanks to gravitational lensing, and now a massive galaxy cluster is about to shed some light on the phenomenon itself.Galaxy cluster RX J2129 is about 3.2 billion light years away, and it's so enormous that its mass actually distorts the shape of spacetime, creating a curve that bends light around the cluster.

Plumes of dust and rocks kicked up from the surface of asteroid Dimorphos after NASA's DART spacecraft smashed into it altered the space rock's orbit more than the kinetic impact alone, according to research published on Wednesday.Boffins successfully changed the position of an astronomical body in space for the first time in history during the Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission last October.

NASA got its giant Space Launch System off the ground for the first time in 2022, lighting up the night in Florida with an incredible stream of flame as it carried the Artemis I mission toward the moon.That shifted attention to SpaceX, which is building a next generation rocket, Starship, that is also central to NASA's crewed Artemis III moon landing attempt.

The more than two dozen nations that make up the European Space Agency concluded their high-level "ministerial" meeting on Wednesday, establishing a budget and priorities for the next three years.A German delegate chosen to chair the meeting, Anna Christmann, said the space agency's plans reflect a bold agenda for Europe to lead in climate science and maintain independent and launch capability.

The International Space Station had to fire its thrusters this week to make sure it avoided space junk in orbit around Earth.The station fired its thrusters for 5 minutes and 5 seconds in what NASA called a "Pre-Determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver" at 8:25 p.m. ET Monday to increase its distance from a piece of what used to be a Russian satellite.

Scientists are finally publishing all the details of what happened when a NASA spacecraft smashed into an asteroid to try to push it off course in September of 2022.MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Last September, NASA made history by knocking an asteroid off course.A mission called DART crashed a spacecraft the size of a golf cart into an asteroid the size of the Great Pyramid in Egypt.

This imagery from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the debris blasted from the surface of Dimorphos 285 hours after NASA's DART spacecraft smashed into the asteroid's surface.NASA/ESA/STScI/Hubble Astronomers are still watching that asteroid that NASA whacked with a spacecraft back in September, in the first-ever test of whether an asteroid could be deliberately pushed off-course.

What time is it on the moon?Since the dawn of the space age, the answer has been: It depends.For decades, lunar missions have operated on the time of the country that launched them.But with several lunar explorations heading for the launchpad, the European Space Agency has deemed the current system unsustainable.

This image provided by NASA and the European Space Agency shows images of six candidate massive galaxies, seen 500-800 million years after the Big Bang.AP Astronomers have discovered what appear to be massive galaxies dating back to within 600 million years of the Big Bang, suggesting the early universe may have had a stellar fast-track that produced these monsters.

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.The beautiful chaos of two merging galaxies shines in the latest image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.Vice President Kamala Harris and French President Emmanuel Macron viewed the new Webb image, along with a new composite of the Pillars of Creation captured by the space observatory, during a visit to NASA Headquarters in Washington on Wednesday.

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.The cosmic chaos caused by a very young star has been captured in the latest enchanting image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.The protostar the image centers around is hidden from view in the neck of a dark, hourglass-shape cloud of gas and dust.

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.The James Webb Space Telescope has provided astronomers with a glimpse of the early universe in a new image shared on Wednesday.The powerful space observatory is capable of detecting the faint light of incredibly distant galaxies as they glow in infrared light, a wavelength that is invisible to the human eye.

NASA has released another image taken from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST); of course, it's another magical beauty.The latest image explores "one of the most dynamic star-forming regions in nearby galaxies," and the observations made by the telescope are another advancement for astronomers - and another incredible image for us to gaze at.

If we had to choose our favorite image from the Hubble Space Telescope or the James Webb Space Telescope in 2022, it would be a hard decision to make.There have been some absolutely incredible images from both telescopes.But according to NASA, there was one clear winner that was named the most popular Hubble Telescope photo of 2022, and it's a beauty.

In just the first hours of 2023, a really interesting sky show will be happening between the moon and the planet Uranus.If you and the kids look forward to interesting things in the sky, here's what you need to know about the upcoming lunar occultation, including important safety information.What is a lunar occultation?

Aspiring cosmonauts just got treated to another stunning image released by NASA in collaboration with the ESA (European Space Agency).The latest image was taken not from the James Webb Space Telescope, but from the Hubble Space Telescope, and not only is it stunning, glitzy, and beautiful, but it's a look into a dwarf galaxy that could provide researchers with a lot of information about stars.

The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) continues to capture incredible space landscapes.NASA recently released new photos taken by the telescope showing two brand new galaxies, plus another look at an old, magical sight that we just can't get enough of: the Pillars of Creation.The new images came from an international mission led by NASA, partnering with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the European Space Agency (ESA).

Not a lot of people have heard of Spaceport Cornwall in the U.K., but last night more than 2,000 paying ticket holders showed up there to watch what was supposed to be the first orbital space launch from British soil.The payload: nine different satellites from both the military and the private sector.

The UK's new disability minister has admitted the government "has scope to do better" when it comes to getting disabled people into work.Tom Pursglove, Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work, made the comment while announcing a new Disability Action Plan.He is the third MP to hold the position in as many months.

LONDON  John McFall is no stranger to a challenge.An avid sprinter in his youth, he had to learn how to run again after losing his leg in a motorcycle accident when he was 19.He learned well: In the Paralympic Games in Beijing in 2008, he won the bronze medal in the 100 meters.Not content with that, he then trained as an orthopedic surgeon.

This screengrab from NASA TV shows NASA's Orion capsule, left, nearing the moon, right, Monday, Nov. 21, 2022.At center is earth.(NASA via AP) (AP)Five days after launching from the Kennedy Space Center, NASA's Orion spacecraft reached the moon Monday, passing within 81 miles of the lunar surface, marking the completion of the a key step in the space agency's Artemis campaign to return astronauts there within a few years.

The James Webb space telescope has revealed its latest image of celestial majesty, an ethereal hourglass of orange and blue dust being shot out from a newly forming star at its centre.The colourful clouds are only visible in infrared light, so had never been seen before being captured by Webb's Near-Infrared Camera (Nircam), Nasa and the European Space Agency said in a statement on Wednesday.

We've seen a lot of gorgeous photos recently from the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), but we can't sleep on the oldie but goodie Hubble Telescope, because it's still capturing incredible images.The latest photo gives us a unique look at a spiral of galaxies that are connected by an intergalactic bridge, and it's stunning.

In the James Webb Space Telescope's newest image, a pair of galaxies are smashing together, triggering waves of new star formation.And in the bright heart of the collision, we may be witnessing the birth of a new supermassive black hole.Around 270 million light years away, it's hard to tell where one galaxy ends and the other begins.