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5 days ago | space.com | Stefanie Waldek

Easter Sunday certainly won't be a day of rest for the astronomy community. All eyes will be on NASA's asteroid-studying Lucy spacecraft, which is due to have a close encounter at 1:51 p.m. EDT (1751 GMT) on April 20, 2025. Launched in 2021, Lucy is on a 12-year journey to the orbit of Jupiter, during which the probe will perform flybys of eight Trojan asteroids in a quest to learn about the origins of the solar system, searching for elements that could spark the rise of life.

5 days ago | space.com | Richard Edwards

If you'd seen the "Doctor Who" season 2 trailers, you already knew that cartoon character Mr Ring-a-Ding would climb out of a cinema screen like some kind of malevolent Roger Rabbit. As well as being a great visual, it's a handy metaphor for the show's newfound disregard for the so-called fourth wall — in the modern Whoniverse, fictional characters acknowledging their audience is becoming increasingly standard.

5 days ago | space.com | Stefanie Waldek

While most people searching for signs of alien life these days might have their eyes on the exoplanet K2-18b, one team of researchers is keeping their sights a little closer to home. Texas A&M researcher Michael Tice and a team of international scientists have revealed new clues about Mars' potential to have supported life, thanks to data collected by NASA's Perseverance rover.

6 days ago | space.com | Monisha Ravisetti

Scientists announced on Friday (April 18) that the newest solar investigator in town has captured its first-light images — or should I say the newest solar investigators. That is, this NASA sun-studying mission, named PUNCH, is technically made up of four small satellites that are strategically distributed in our planet's orbit. The quartet is designed, however, to work together as a single instrument with the power to decode some of our star's biggest mysteries.

6 days ago | space.com | Josh Dinner

Emergency responders were called to a Northrop Grumman manufacturing and testing facility Wednesday, April 16. An explosion at the Promontory, Utah facility owned by aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman was reported Wednesday, at 9:38 a.m. EDT (1338 GMT, 7:38 a.m., local time in Promontory). Emergency responders arrived to the scene to find one building completely destroyed.