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Europa Clipper Completes Successful Mars Radar Test En Route to Jupiter’s Moon

Data from a 40-minute Mars flyby confirm REASON’s readiness with a 60-gigabyte dataset downloaded this summer ahead of a 2026 Earth gravity assist

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Cosmic Rays Can Sustain Subsurface Life in New Radiolytic Habitable Zone

Framework for Lava Planet Evolution Secures 100 Hours of JWST Time

NASA and AeroVironment Pitch Skyfall Helicopter Fleet for 2028 Mars Mission

Study Finds Earth's Temporary Moons Are Lunar Impact Debris

NASA Plans New Annealing Trials After JunoCam Image Noise Returns

Mineral Condensation Captured in Planet-Forming Disk of Protostar HOPS-315

Discovery of 'Ammonite' Narrows Search for Planet Nine

Chandra Observations Reveal Rapid Atmospheric Loss on Exoplanet TOI 1227b

DART Impact Reveals Clustered High-Momentum Boulders That Could Tilt Dimorphos’s Orbit

White House Budget Plan Could Cut Short New Horizons’ Kuiper Belt Exploration

NASA Model Shows How Protocell Precursors Could Self-Assemble in Titan’s Hydrocarbon Lakes

Hundreds of TESS Exoplanets Are Larger Than Believed

NASA Launches Three-Year Deep-Sea Microbe Study to Inform Europa Life Search

Pilbara’s Miralga Crater Found Younger and Smaller Than Initially Estimated

Chang’e-6 Samples Reveal 4 Billion-Year Impact and Extended Volcanism on Moon’s Far Side

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b Triggers Supercharged Stellar Flares That Erode Its Own Atmosphere

Experimental Fusion and Solar Sail Concepts Aim to Reach Sedna in Under a Decade

2024 YR4’s Earth Impact Ruled Out, Moon Collision Risk Rises to 4.3%

Asteroid 2024 YR4 Now Has 4.3% Chance of Striking the Moon