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Just Some of the Planets That TESS Has Found Nearby
Universe Today - 21 Feb 2021 01:18
Using data from TESS and a number of other observatories, an international team has found a system with three exoplanets relatively close to Earth. The post Just Some of the Planets That TESS Has Found Nearby appeared fi...
Until Recently, People Accepted the 'Fact' of Aliens in the Solar System
Scientific American - 21 Feb 2021 19:00
For centuries, right up until the 1960s, the notion life on Mars—and elsewhere—wasn't considered especially remarkable --
NASA's Mars helicopter reports in
Phys.org - 21 Feb 2021 18:49
Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have received the first status report from the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which landed Feb. 18, 2021, at Jezero Crater attached to the belly ...
This Week at NASA - Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars and More
SpaceRef - 21 Feb 2021 17:32
Our Perseverance rover takes up residence on Mars, the space station's next commercial resupply mission, and a new date for a commercial crew test flight ... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA....
The first helicopter on Mars phones home after Perseverance rover landing
SPACE.com - 21 Feb 2021 14:39
The first helicopter ever sent to another world is doing just fine on Mars after surviving a "seven minutes of terror" landing aboard NASA's Perseverance.
World's largest iceberg disintegrates into 'alphabet soup,' NASA photo shows
SPACE.com - 21 Feb 2021 14:24
The world's largest iceberg has disintegrated into an 'alphabet soup' of mini ice island, new NASA imagery shows.
Europe is recruiting astronauts. Here's what it takes to become one
SPACE.com - 21 Feb 2021 14:22
For the first time in 11 years, the European Space Agency (Esa) is recruiting new astronauts.
Planet 9 probably doesn't exist, new paper argues
SPACE.com - 21 Feb 2021 14:12
Does the solar system really have a big, dark ninth planet drifting somewhere far beyond the orbit of Neptune? A new paper argues that Planet 9 is a statistical mirage.