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These inventive ideas could help Artemis astronauts make drinking water on the moon
By Rahul Rao published
Ten U.K. finalists have been announced in the Aqualunar Challenge, an effort to develop tech that can turn moon ice into drinkable water.

Dark matter ghosts its way through powerful (and messy) collision of galaxy clusters
By Robert Lea published
Using data from the Hubble and Chandra space telescopes, scientists have determined that dark matter ghosted through the wreckage of two colliding galaxy clusters over 5 billion light-years away.

NASA's DART asteroid impact mission revealed ages of twin space rock targets (images)
By Robert Lea published
Scientists have analyzed images of the twin asteroids Didymos and Dimorphous taken by NASA's DART mission before it impacted the smaller space rock, revealing their age and origins.

These 17th-century drawings of the sun by Kepler add fire to solar cycle mystery
By Elizabeth Howell published
Earth was cooler than usual in the 16th and 17th centuries and scientists are still trying to figure out why. New analysis of sunspot drawings by Kepler, in 1607, may shed some light.

Japan's ispace will fly a tiny European-built lunar rover to the moon this year (photo)
By Andrew Jones published
The Luxembourg-based subsidiary of Japanese space exploration firm ispace has finished building a micro lunar rover, which is now set to fly to the moon.

Here's what the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris look like from space (photos)
By Samantha Mathewson published
The 2024 Summer Olympics started Friday (July 26) in Paris with the opening ceremony highlighting historic landmarks along the Seine River, which can be seen in a new satellite image from space.

Watch a colossal X-class solar flare erupt from Earth-facing sunspot (video)
By Daisy Dobrijevic published
An X-flare erupted from the sun at 10:33 p.m. EDT on July 28 (0233 GMT July 29). Watch the action unfold here.

Dark matter could play 'matchmaker' for supermassive black holes
By Robert Lea published
Dark matter could act as a cosmic matchmaker between dark matter and merging supermassive black holes, solving astronomy's "final parsec problem."
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