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NASA's new Mars mission: These twin satellites could reveal how the Red Planet lost its atmosphere

November 10, 2025
Mars is about to receive a double dose of attention. This weekend, a pair of identical NASA satellites will launch together to help reveal how the Red Planet lost its thick atmosphere and liquid water — one of its oldest mysteries, and a key to understanding how it transformed from a once-habitable world into the frozen desert it is today. Scheduled for liftoff no earlier than Sunday (Nov. 9)…
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Northern lights may be visible in 22 US states tonight

November 7, 2025
The northern lights and southern lights could receive a considerable boost again tonight as Earth braces for impact from a powerful coronal mass ejection (CME) hurled from the sun during yesterday’s M7.4 solar flare. The speedy CME is forecast to arrive late tonight or…
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See stunning photos of November's full 'Beaver Moon' — the biggest supermoon of 2025

November 7, 2025
The November full moon put on a magnificent show for stargazers on Nov. 5, as the largest and brightest supermoon of 2025 flooded the sky with reflected sunlight mere hours before it reached its closest point to Earth in its 27-day orbit. November’s full moon is also known as the “Beaver Moon”, in reference to the period when the buck-toothed mammals become particularly active in…
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How AI fixed the James Webb Space Telescope's blurry vision

November 6, 2025
Telescope has been suffering from blurry vision. But a team of Australian researchers created an AI algorithm that fixes the problem — a major relief for the scientific community, which hopes to use the instrument to search for exoplanets around stars in our Milky Way galaxy. The affected instrument is the Aperture Masking Interferometer (API), designed and built by a team of astronomers led by…
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Europe's powerful Ariane 6 rocket launches Sentinel-1D Earth-observation satellite to orbit (video)

November 5, 2025
Europe’s Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket took to the skies for the fourth time ever today (Nov. 4). An Ariane 6 lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana today at 4:02 p.m. EST (2102 GMT; 6:02 p.m. local time in Kourou), carrying the Sentinel-1D Earth-observation satellite to low Earth orbit (LEO). The Ariane 6 deployed Sentinel-1D about 33.5 minutes after liftoff today as…
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