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How a Cosmic Crash Built Titan and Saturn's Rings Science

How a Cosmic Crash Built Titan and Saturn's Rings

New research from the SETI Institute proposes that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was forged in a violent collision between two ancient moons hundreds...

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NASA Overhauls Artemis: Moon Landing Pushed to 2028 Science

NASA Overhauls Artemis: Moon Landing Pushed to 2028

NASA has radically restructured its Artemis lunar program, redesignating Artemis III as an Earth-orbit practice run and pushing the first actual crewe...

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NASA Delays Artemis II to April After Helium Fault Science

NASA Delays Artemis II to April After Helium Fault

NASA has rolled the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft back to the Vehicle Assembly Building after a helium flow fault blocked a March la...

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Webb Detects Hydrogen Sulfide on Exoplanets First Time Science

Webb Detects Hydrogen Sulfide on Exoplanets First Time

For the first time in history, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified hydrogen sulfide in the atmospheres of giant exoplanet...

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Moon Still Shrinking: 1,000 New Tectonic Ridges Found Science

Moon Still Shrinking: 1,000 New Tectonic Ridges Found

Smithsonian scientists have mapped more than 1,000 previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon's dark plains, confirming our nearest neighbour...

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NASA Targets March 6 for First Crewed Moon Flyby in 50 Years Science

NASA Targets March 6 for First Crewed Moon Flyby in 50 Years

NASA has confirmed March 6, 2026 as the earliest launch date for Artemis II, the first crewed mission beyond Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972, foll...

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Perseverance Drives Mars Solo: AI Takes the Wheel Technology

Perseverance Drives Mars Solo: AI Takes the Wheel

NASA's Perseverance rover completed the first Mars drives planned entirely by artificial intelligence in December 2025, covering 456 meters without hu...

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NASA is testing the Artemis 2 rocket again. The launch could take place on 6 March. Science

NASA is testing the Artemis 2 rocket again. The launch could take place on 6 March.

NASA will attempt a second test of fuelling the SLS rocket before the Artemis 2 mission on 19 February. After a hydrogen leak in early February, techn...

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NASA Preps Second Artemis 2 Fueling Test After Leak Fix Science

NASA Preps Second Artemis 2 Fueling Test After Leak Fix

NASA targets February 19 for a second wet dress rehearsal of the Artemis 2 SLS rocket after technicians replaced seals and a filter following a hydrog...

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Ring of Fire Eclipse Dazzles Antarctica Today Science

Ring of Fire Eclipse Dazzles Antarctica Today

An annular solar eclipse creates a stunning 'Ring of Fire' over Antarctica on February 17, 2026, with partial views across southern South America and...

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Webb Detects Life's Precursors in Galaxy Beyond Milky Way Science

Webb Detects Life's Precursors in Galaxy Beyond Milky Way

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected benzene, methane, and the methyl radical for the first time outside the Milky Way, revealing unexpected or...

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NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission: Launch Delayed to March 2026 After Hydrogen Leak Science

NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission: Launch Delayed to March 2026 After Hydrogen Leak

NASA has delayed the Artemis II crewed lunar flyby mission to March 6, 2026, after a liquid hydrogen leak during wet dress rehearsal. The 10-day missi...

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