Scientists on NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission have discovered a key piece of the puzzle in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, discovering that they form similarly to terrestrial auroras.Results published Thursday in Nature Communications show that the same mechanism that circulates and catapults charged particles into Earth’s atmosphere is happening
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SpaceX canceled its first Starship launch since its massive initial public offering in June. On Thursday, SpaceX withdrew from a launch attempt of its upgraded Starship rocket after an engine problem caused an automatic shutdown before liftoff at the company’s Starbase facility in South Texas. CEO Elon Musk said in a post on X that
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has discovered evidence that a 245-foot (75-meter-thick) pile of ancient rock on the rim of Jezero Crater was built by repeated asteroid impacts. This sequence of layered bedrock, dubbed the “Broom Point Member” by the rover’s science team, is likely more than 3.9 billion years old, making it some of the
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This close-up view shows fragments of sulfur crystals, the first seen on the Red Planet. The crystals were found after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover passed over and crushed a rock on May 30, 2024. Several days later, Curiosity used a camera on the end of its robotic arm to take this image. A recent paper
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A pre-dawn encounter between the Moon and the planets, the return of a comet, a great opportunity to see the Milky Way and Saturn’s rings from a new angle. July 7: last quarter moon July 11 + 12: Dawn alignment of the Moon, Mars, Saturn and Uranus July 14: New moon; The best dark sky
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