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NASA Brings Its Lunar Ambitions into Focus with Moon Base Missions
29 May 2026 at 6:25pmRovers, drones, and landers will usher in a sustained lunar presence, under the new plan NASA announced this week.
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Read more...Evidence of Water Plumes from Jupiter's Moon Europa Vanishes
29 May 2026 at 4:11pmReanalysis shows that the Hubble Space Telescope's detection of water vapor escaping from Jupiter’s moon Europa might have been a glitch.
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Read more...This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 29 – June 7
29 May 2026 at 8:46amVenus and Jupiter grab your eyes in the west in late twilight. The Summer Triangle marks the dark in the east. So will the subtler Milky Way once the glary Moon is gone.
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Read more...Lost in the Star Clouds — A Milky Way Odyssey
27 May 2026 at 3:31pmI share my "discovery" of a new Milky Way star cloud that's been staring at me for ages.
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Read more...NASA's Psyche Sends Back Amazing Images of Mars
26 May 2026 at 2:48pmNASA’s Psyche asteroid mission made a course adjustment via a flyby past Mars en route to its final destination. Here's what it saw.
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Read more...This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 22 – 31
22 May 2026 at 9:11amVenus and Jupiter — the Evening Star and the False Evening Star — draw closer together in the western twilight and point down to Mercury. The waxing Moon shows off its rich telescopic detail.
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Read more...Nereid Could be Neptune’s Only Original Moon
22 May 2026 at 7:18amNew research suggests that Triton — or a Triton-like object — might have disrupted Neptune's original moon system. Nereid might be the sole survivor.
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Read more...How Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede Melted Its Core
19 May 2026 at 2:16pmA new model explains how Ganymede got its molten core — which in turn has given Jupiter's largest moon its magnetic field.
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Read more...SMILE: European Space Weather Mission Launches
19 May 2026 at 5:26amAn innovative new mission will probe the mystery of how the Earth’s magnetosphere interacts with the solar wind.
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Read more...What's Feeding Our Supermassive Black Hole?
18 May 2026 at 1:00pmAstronomers have identified the likely source of gas that flows into the maw of the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*.
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