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The story of Percival Lowell: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

New moons of Uranus and Neptune discovered

These are the ways our world will end

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How life on Earth will end: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

The sandy red orb of Mars is shown against a black background. Numerous dark regions are scattered across its surface, and the bright, white northern polar ice cap is visible at the top of the image.

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Where did Mars’ water go? This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

The planets in our solar system.

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How long is a year on other planets?

Barchan dunes on Mars

How the shapes of martian sand dunes reveal the planet’s winds

Dinkinesh and its contact binary satellites seen just 6 minutes after Lucy came in closest contact with the asteroids. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL

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Surprise! NASA’s Lucy mission uncovered an asteroid moon that is actually two in one

During its flyby on Nov. 1 2023, Lucy discovered that its target, Dinkinesh, is not one, but two asteroids. Here, the smaller companion appears from behind the larger Dinkinesh. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOAO

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NASA’s Lucy mission discovers surprise asteroid on ‘Dinky’ flyby

NASA shared this image of clouds and storms on Jupiter that resemble a face. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing by Vladimir Tarasov

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NASA shares image of spooky ‘face’ on Jupiter

Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun.

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Planets 101: What they are and how they form

This diagram outlines the basic stages of the aerocapture technique.

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Aerocapture: Using a planet’s atmosphere to slow down a spacecraft