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Webb Telescope Spots a Plume of Unusual Size Spewing From Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
The Webb Space Telescope’s latest subject is a wet one: a gigantic plume of water vapour spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
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NASA Seaplane Concept Is Designed to Study Alien Lakes
The seaplane is the pinnacle of transportation. Imagine being able to take to the skies from land or water, without having to worry about requiring a landing strip when you reach some far flung, deserted island you’d like to check out. It’s the dream. Now, it appears that NASA holds the same belief, as it…
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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune: Why Our Next Visit to the Giant Planets Will Be So Important
The giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – are some of the most awe-inspiring in our Solar System, and have great importance for space research and our comprehension of the greater universe. Yet they remain the least explored – especially the “ice giants” Uranus and Neptune – due to their distance from Earth,…
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The Last Images From Doomed Space Probes
To all the space probes we’ve loved before: sorry! You fell into Saturn, drifted into deep space, suffocated in Martian dust — all for the greater good of science. Today, we’re memorialising the space explorers that met dramatic endings far, far from Earth.