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  • NASA Scientists Confirm Water Vapor on Europa

    Forty years ago, a Voyager spacecraft snapped the first closeup images of Europa, one of Jupiter’s 79 moons. These revealed brownish cracks slicing the moon’s icy surface, which give Europa the look of a veiny eyeball. Missions to the outer solar system in the decades since have amassed enough additional information about Europa to make it a high-priority target of investigation in NASA’s search for life.

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  • Orbital plan for lunar space station unveiled

    Mission planners at NASA and ESA have determined the orbital path of the upcoming lunar Gateway.

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  • Astronomers Witness Birth of Intermediate-Mass Black Hole

    Astronomers using the twin LIGO detectors located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, and the Virgo detector located near Pisa, Italy, have detected gravitational waves from the most massive binary black hole merger ever discovered. The two spinning black holes merged when the Universe was only about 7 billion years old, which is roughly half its present age, and formed a larger black hole weighing a whopping 142 times the mass of the Sun — a so-called intermediate-mass black hole.

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  • Revisited: Former Obama pilot’s UFO encounter

    The pilot who once flew Senator Barack Obama had a surreal experience with an unidentified flying object.

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