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The JUICE mission to explore Jupiter’s ocean moons is about to launch

Jupiter’s icy moons are thought to host buried oceans that could have the right conditions for life, and the European Space Agency’s JUICE mission is about to go find out if they do

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A supermassive black hole is hurtling away from its home galaxy

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Are there planets that are better for life than Earth?

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Chemistry

Crystal impervious to radiation could be used in spaceship computers

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NASA announces four astronauts for Artemis II mission around the moon

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JWST has spotted the earliest black hole ever seen in the universe

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$Trappist-1 is a red-dwarf star, the most common variety, located some 40 light-years away in Aquarius. In 2015, astronomers discovered that Trappist-1 was host to three earth-sized planets. Then it came under the spotlight again in 2017 when NASA scientists found an additional four planets, taking the total up to seven. This is the most terrestrial planets that have ever been found to orbit a single star, including our own Solar System. Trappist-1 is only fractionally larger than Jupiter in diameter. This image shows the star and six of the planets as they would appear from the vantage point of the fifth outermost planet, Trappist-1f. All of the planets and the Sun are to scale. One of the worlds is seen transiting in front of the star.$