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Paul Byrne appeared on BBC News on Dec 25, 2021 to discuss the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope

BBC News: Paul Byrne on launch of James Webb Space Telescope (video)

Tug of sun, moon could be driving plate motions on ‘imbalanced’ Earth

Master Minds: Mission to Mars, Venus and the Moon

Gas extraction line in Rita Parai's laboratory (Photo: Sean Garcia)

Volatile bodies: Isotopic fingerprints reveal how planets gain and lose elements

A river runs through it

'Eggshell planets’ are rocky worlds that have an ultra-thin outer brittle layer and little to no topography. Here, an artist’s rendition of such an exoplanet. (Image: NASA)

Space.com: Strange 'eggshell' exoplanets may have ultra-smooth surfaces

Doug Wiens

KSDK: Why midwest earthquakes can be felt miles away from epicenter

'Eggshell planets’ are rocky worlds that have an ultra-thin outer brittle layer and little to no topography. Here, an artist’s rendition of such an exoplanet. (Image: NASA)

Tread lightly: ‘Eggshell planets’ possible around other stars

The Chang'e 5 return capsule at its landing site in Inner Mongolia, China, on Dec. 17, 2020. (Image credit: CNSA)

Space.com: Moon rocks brought to Earth by Chinese mission fill key gaps in solar system history

Chang’e-5 samples reveal key age of moon rocks

PBS: Bob Criss discusses urban flooding on Donnybrook Next Up

The surface of Venus, shown here using radar data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft, remains mostly unexplored. Photo by NASA, JPL

National Geographic: Hellish Venus poses many mysteries. New spacecraft aim to solve them.