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Mark Kaufman

Mark is an award-winning journalist and the science editor at Mashable. After communicating science as a ranger with the National Park Service, he began a reporting career after seeing the extraordinary value in educating the public about the happenings in earth sciences, space, biodiversity, health, and beyond. 

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Mars may have harbored a shocking amount of water, scientists find
A conception of what Mars' Jezero Crater may have looked like billions of years ago.

NASA finds captivating ocean world is making oxygen. Here's how much.
A conception of the Europa Clipper spacecraft flying over Jupiter's moon Europa.


Broken moon lander beams back a final poignant photo — of Earth
A transmission from Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander showing the crescent Earth near the top of the image, to the left of center.

Scientists zoom in on distant solar system. It's teeming with water.
The blue regions show areas where the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) detected clear signs of water vapor in a distant star system.



What's the 'best' place to see the solar eclipse? Experts explain.
A time-lapse image showing the total solar eclipse in August 2017.








NASA Mars rover looks up, sees its strange moon eclipsing the sun
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of the Martian moon Phobos.



NASA craft snaps extraordinarily close images of volcano-covered world
NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this detailed view of Io on Feb. 3, 2024.

NASA found a super-Earth. It's in a tantalizing place.
An artist's conception of a super-Earth.



NASA photos reveal serious damage to its Mars helicopter
On upper left, a broken rotor tip on the Ingenuity helicopter as captured by the craft's navigation camera.

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