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Using the James Webb Telescope, astronomers created a video seeing 200 million years into the past
It's a mind-blowing trip!
By Mark Kaufman and Warren Shaw
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How worried should we be about Solar Flares?
"It's not like a big solar flare is going to knock everyone out tomorrow."
By Mark Stetson and Mark Kaufman
![Solar Flares](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/00hkjxGf7USmbNrDxU1D2eF/hero-image.fill.size_220x133.v1678366301.png)
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NASA's Curiosity rover finds ancient waves on Mars
Waves in a frozen alien desert?
By Mark Stetson and Elisha Sauers
![Ancient Mars Waves](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/04SfNjETkMXzpDny1UGwlNN/hero-image.fill.size_220x133.v1676479344.png)
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What the flying spiral spotted over Hawaii actually means
We need to talk about space tourism's growing environmental impact.
![Picture of the swirling spiral in the night sky passing over the Subaru Telescope. Caption reads: "Swirling problem"](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/03rqir9SVt1G7Lfc3yAe6VG/hero-image.fill.size_220x133.v1676550869.jpg)
![Picture of the swirling spiral in the night sky passing over the Subaru Telescope. Caption reads: "Swirling problem"](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/03rqir9SVt1G7Lfc3yAe6VG/hero-image.fill.size_220x220.v1676550869.jpg)
What is that California-sized cloud on Mars?
For starters, it's not smoke billowing from a volcanic eruption.
By Mark Stetson and Elisha Sauers
![Massive Mars Cloud](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/03oASDkACkZfSvs2UZkpjHe/hero-image.fill.size_220x133.v1675109911.png)
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Why are we sending a plastic-eating enzyme to space?
This bacteria was bioengineered to upcycle waste.
![An illustration of a rocket seems to float towards a planet-like sphere that is actually a microscopic image of bacteria. Caption reads: "Bacteria on board".](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/058R7QSKLnv1g5Kn3ZAbNgG/hero-image.fill.size_220x133.v1674146432.jpg)
![An illustration of a rocket seems to float towards a planet-like sphere that is actually a microscopic image of bacteria. Caption reads: "Bacteria on board".](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/058R7QSKLnv1g5Kn3ZAbNgG/hero-image.fill.size_220x220.v1674146432.jpg)
Five planets align for first time in 18 years
A sight you won't want to miss!
By Mark Stetson and Jules Suzdaltsev
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NASA sent a satellite into the Sun (and it survived!)
(Not) too close for comfort
![Host in front of sun with arrow](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/04jK71EZnxtLbiTI6oJHhP9/hero-image.fill.size_220x133.v1652973090.png)
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NASA finally unsealed precious moon rocks collected 50 years ago
It's been a long time coming.
![Astronaut on moon with text reading "50-Year-Old Moon Rocks"](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/02BBfelRfGbJjPzi4v9QeIy/hero-image.fill.size_220x133.v1650044343.png)
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How the powerful Webb telescope will peer 13 billion years back in time
Through it, we can observe the birth of the first stars and galaxies to form after the Big Bang.
By Emmett Smith
![How the powerful Webb telescope will peer 13 billion years back in time](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/05AxHRnyhPVSsVuq4ALGHeJ/hero-image.fill.size_220x133.v1640196906.png)
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An origami moon shelter is set to make space feel a little more like home
The first moon landing planted a flag, the next one could build a home.
![An origami moon shelter is set to make space feel a little more like home](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/05CNCXyxblYJH1oHhczrAZb/hero-image.fill.size_220x133.v1635162906.jpg)
![An origami moon shelter is set to make space feel a little more like home](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/05CNCXyxblYJH1oHhczrAZb/hero-image.fill.size_220x220.v1635162906.jpg)
Russian thriller involving space surgery about to get rolling about ISS
Tom Cruise must be disappointed.
By Emmett Smith
![Russian thriller involving space surgery about to get rolling about ISS](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/03sEGuAFtPjQTOnoDiNRV4t/hero-image.fill.size_220x133.v1633536607.png)
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Move over, Bezos: NASA is sending baby squid to space
Literally everyone's going to space now??
By Lacey Smith
![Move over, Bezos: NASA is sending baby squid to space](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/00yfxGYgSnF7vo3uSfLCfVw/hero-image.fill.size_220x133.v1628108715.png)
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How fast can you go in space without dying?
To infinity and beyond is impossible, sorry...
![How fast can you go in space without dying?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/05F7b00XOSmkEzdy9QMaFp4/hero-image.fill.size_220x133.v1626469358.png)
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China becomes only second nation in history to successfully land a rover on Mars
We now have not one, but two, rovers zipping around Mars.
By Emmett Smith
![China becomes only second nation in history to successfully land a rover on Mars](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/01TPLbXjU9O5wQXp7Zxqlhz/hero-image.fill.size_220x133.v1621521188.png)
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This is what a Mars megacity could look like
An extraterrestrial city that provides food, water, and oxygen to over 250,000 people.
By Emmett Smith
![This is what a Mars megacity could look like](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/061jcX7abwmerk6Bx3zLBHH/hero-image.fill.size_220x133.v1620982901.png)
![This is what a Mars megacity could look like](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/061jcX7abwmerk6Bx3zLBHH/hero-image.fill.size_220x220.v1620982901.png)
Blue Origin is ready to start selling suborbital space travel tickets
Jeff Bezos, space cowboy.
By Emmett Smith
![Blue Origin is ready to start selling suborbital space travel tickets](https://cdn.statically.io/img/helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/06NGnWx4oQzIQXuvqZxpjyP/hero-image.fill.size_220x133.v1620144211.png)
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