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1st evidence of recent volcanic activity on Venus detected in groundbreaking study
By Sascha Pare published
Scientists have analyzed 30-year-old data from NASA's Magellan mission to Venus and detected the first-ever signs of volcanic activity on the planet, emanating from a giant crater called Maat Mons.

James Webb Space Telescope captures star going supernova in a dazzling cloud of dust
By Sascha Pare published
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a picture of WR 124, a rare Wolf-Mayet star 30 times the size of our sun, ejecting a luminous cloud of cosmic dust.

Beating 'hearts on a chip' will travel to space on SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship tonight
By Nicoletta Lanese published
Tissue-based models of the human heart are being sent to the International Space Station.

Bizarre sand dunes on Mars are 'almost perfectly circular,' and scientists don't know why
By Sascha Pare published
A high-resolution camera mounted on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped pictures of unusual, almost perfectly circular sand dunes on the Red Planet's surface.

See the first clear images of 'sun rays' on Mars in eerie new NASA photos
By Harry Baker published
The rays appear when sunlight shines through gaps in the cloud during sunrise or sunset and have never been seen this clearly on the Red Planet before.

Scientists blasted Barbies with liquid nitrogen to test a new method of moon dust cleanup – and it worked extremely well
By Jennifer Nalewicki published
Researchers have developed a liquid-nitrogen spray that rids spacesuits of lunar dust.

Elementary schoolers prove EpiPens become toxic in space — something NASA never knew
By Jennifer Nalewicki published
It took a group of elementary school students to teach NASA that EpiPens can turn toxic in space.

NASA confirms success of DART mission, proving humanity can deflect killer asteroids with rockets
By Brandon Specktor published
Four new studies confirm that NASA's DART mission, which crashed a rocket into the asteroid Dimorphos, changed the asteroid's trajectory and could potentially save Earth one day, given enough time to prepare.

'Building blocks of life' recovered from asteroid Ryugu are older than the solar system itself
By Stephanie Pappas published
The first analyses of samples brought back from the asteroid Ryugu show that this space rock contains some of the molecules needed for life.

NASA warns of 3 skyscraper-sized asteroids headed toward Earth this week. Thankfully, they'll all miss.
By Brandon Specktor published
A trio of enormous asteroids, including two 'potentially hazardous' ones, will cross Earth's orbit around the sun this week, according to NASA. Here's what that means.
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