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'We're never going to come home': Artemis II commander recalls the most terrifying moment of his 10-day trip around the moonArtemis II Commander Reid Wiseman felt genuine fear when he saw the Orion spacecraft had gone farther from Earth than anticipated, the astronaut told an audience at the Starmus VIII festival this week.
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Japan launches world's first round-trip mission to MarsThe Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) mission, which launched from Japan on Oct. 19, is on its way to Mars. When it arrives, the probe will attempt to land on one of the Red Planet's twin moons and scoop up rocks to bring back to Earth. Experts tell Live Science what these "transformative" samples could teach us.
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James Webb telescope discovers surprising trove of metals around the Milky Way's supermassive black holeNew observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal a concentration of heavy metals near the Milky Way's central black hole. The discovery deepens a mystery about why our galaxy's black hole behaves the way it does.
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The James Webb telescope is watching one of the earliest supernovas in the universe unfoldAstronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered a supernova erupting just 1.1 billion years after the Big Bang.
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See pieces of Halley's Comet fall to Earth this week as the Orionid meteor shower peaksThe Orionid meteor shower peaks overnight on Oct. 21-22. Here's how to see "shooting stars" from Halley's Comet.
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This 850-year-old 'firework' supernova is full of mysterious knotsSpace Photo of the Week Pa 30, linked to a supernova seen in 1181, reveals chains of tiny gas knots in a new image from the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii.
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Astronomers discover the first-ever green star, plus the reddest 'white dwarf' ever seenStellar remnants called white dwarfs ‪appear to come in a rainbow of colors, according to a new study.
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'We're not a competitor to fusion. We are fusion': Inside the race to harness unlimited solar power in spaceScience Spotlight Space-based solar power has the potential to meet Earth's energy needs many times over. Will it see the light of day?
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'Swamp-like colors' on the moon: NASA report reveals strange sights from Artemis II missionSpace Photo of the Week Astronauts on NASA's Artemis II mission saw surprising "jaundiced yellow" and "swampy green" colors on the moon during their close lunar flyby, a new report reveals.
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