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The Race to Greener Rockets

Crewed and uncrewed space flight doesn't create a large percentage of the Earth's carbon emissions. In 2018, Everyday Astronaut reported that rocket launches made up just 0.0000059% of the world's carbon emissions. To contrast, the energy…

RIP InSight

NASA's InSight mission has ended after more than four years of collecting unique science on Mars. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California eventually could no longer contact NASA's InSight Mars lander. NASA had…

Webb Space Telescope Finds Baby Stars

Rice University astronomers reviewed the first images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and saw telltale signs from two dozen previously unseen young stars approximately 7,500 light years from Earth. The published research provides…