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Hubble Study Of Hot Jupiters Provides Exoplanet Atmosphere Insight
The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres," according to the Hubble team. Credit: ...
NASA Europa Clipper Mission to Launch on October 10, Will Study Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa
NASA's Europa Clipper will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Despite concerns over some defective transistors on the spacecraft, the mission remains on ...
As spacecraft zooms to Venus, it peers back at humble Earth and the moon
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...
NASA's flying to an ocean world. Its spacecraft is giant.
Planetary scientists are confident this moon of Jupiter harbors a deep ocean. A looming question is whether it hosts the ...
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NASA's Europa Clipper on track for Oct. 10 launch to Jupiter's icy moon despite radiation worries
"There's very strong evidence that the ingredients for life exist on Europa, but we have to go there to find out." ...
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NASA Provides 8 Things to Know About Mission to an Ocean Moon of Jupiter
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest the agency has ever built for a planetary mission, will travel 1.8 billion ...
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Jupiter-bound JUICE probe snaps photo of Earth, the moon and Uranus
Update for Sept. 20: This story was updated after ESA released another image of Earth and the moon as seen by JUICE's JANUS scientific camera, which was designed to take high-resolution photos of ...
Europa Clipper mission set to explore Jupiter’s ocean moon; here’s all you need to know
NASA plans to launch the Europa Clipper mission on October 10, 2024, targeting Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The mission seeks ...
The Searchers
Dave Eggers is the author of “The Circle,” “What Is the What” and, most recently, “The Eyes and the Impossible,” winner of ...