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NASA's next $1 billion space mission will be an alien-hunting nuclear helicopter that flies around Saturn's icy moon Titan
In short, the device converts heat energy into electricity. The beating heart of an RTG is a radioa…
Dave Mosher,Aylin Woodward
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Hubble Snapped This Picture Of Jupiter With A Creepy 'Hole' In Its Great Red Spot
This image might not have been possible 200 years ago, even if the technology had been around to se…
Jessica Orwig
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Scientists just found a dozen new moons around Jupiter - including one they're calling an 'oddball'
The team that discovered the moons was searching for a hypothetical massive planet that might exist…
Kevin Loria
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Kepler laid the groundwork for this amazing science joke 400 years ago - and it finally paid off
When a Renaissance astronomer named Simon Marius claimed that he had discovered that the planet Jup…
Sarah Kramer
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Deep below Alaskan ice, tiny life forms went untouched for 50,000 years. Scientists are probing them to improve the hunt for aliens.
Titan, specifically, is a prime candidate in the ongoing search for signs of extraterrestrial life.…
Aylin Woodward
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NASA will soon take the closest-ever photos of Jupiter's Great Red Spot - a storm the size of 2 Earths
Juno's orbit around Jupiter is elliptical, so only swings by the planet once every 53.5 days. (NAS…
Dave Mosher
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NASA's Juno spacecraft just snapped the first picture of its orbit around Jupiter
On August 27, Juno will take its first high-resolution images when it makes one of its closest pass…
Ali Sundermier
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Modern-day witches are holding Zoom coven meetings to continue rituals, spells, and the occult
Witchcraft is a subculture that has undergone a highly-visible renaissance, exploding across social…
Peg Aloi
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NASA has released stunning new images of Jupiter's bizarre, storm-choked north pole
By doing so, the space agency will make sure the probe can't crash into the planet's icy moon Europ…
Dave Mosher
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Jupiter is humongous, and this photo of its hellish moon proves it
Instead of generating electricity using red-hot plutonium-238, which is extremely limited in supply…
Dave Mosher
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Astronomers found a 'snowy' super-Earth less than 6 light-years away - and it may be the first planet we'll photograph beyond the solar system
Future ground observatories like the Extremely Large Telescope, or perhaps even the Giant Magellan …
Dave Mosher
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NASA just flew over Jupiter's poles for the first time - and it's 'like nothing we have seen or imagined before'
"It's bluer in color up there than other parts of the planet, and there are a lot of storms. There …
Dave Mosher
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This is the closest photo of Jupiter anyone has seen in nearly a decade
"We are in an orbit nobody has ever been in before, and these images give us a whole new perspectiv…
Dave Mosher
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NASA will fly closer to Jupiter's Great Red Spot tonight than ever before - here's what it could see
NASA's Juno probe won't fly endlessly around the gas giant. The space agency expects to destroy Jun…
Dave Mosher
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NASA is about to fly over Jupiter's biggest storm for the first time - here's what the photos might look like
NASA's Juno probe won't fly endlessly around the gas giant. The space agency expects to destroy Jun…
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX is about to launch a remarkable atomic clock for NASA that may change how we explore space
The atoms are ionized to strip away one or more outer electrons, which enables them to be trapped a…