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Two New Rocky Planets Discovered Close to the Solar System
Starship is one Step Closer to Flight
SpaceX just completed its FAA environmental review and is one step closer to conducting orbital test flights!
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See a Stunning New Picture of the Tarantula Nebula
Astronomers Caught Betelgeuse Just Before it Started Dimming and Might Have Seen a Pressure Wave Rippling Through its Atmosphere
Andromeda Tore Apart and Consumed a Neighbor Galaxy
A Perfectly Balanced Rock Seen by Perseverance
China's Lunar Lander Finds Water Under its Feet
Japan's Upcoming Mission Will Use a Vacuum to Get its Sample From Phobos
There Could Be Four Hostile Civilizations in the Milky Way
In a series of papers, amateur astronomer and exoplanet researcher Alberto Caballero narrows down who could have sent the Wow! Signal and how many hostile civilizations could be listening to our transmissions.
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How Do Hot Jupiters Get So Close to Their Stars?
High Altitude Life Can't Explain the Trace Gases in Venus' Atmosphere
A Geologic map of the Entire Moon has Been Released at 1:2,500,000-Scale
ESA Gives Green Light on its Comet Interceptor Mission
After Three Months in Safe-Mode, NASA's Maven Spacecraft Has Been Recovered
After a technical glitch that caused it to enter safe mode, NASA's MAVEN satellites is once again up and running and conducting science operations.
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The Rapid Changes We're Seeing With the Earth's Magnetic Field Don't Mean the Poles are About to Flip. This is Normal
Will Earth's Follies Take Root on Mars? Black Comedy Explores the Frontier
The World's Largest Liquid-Mirror Telescope Comes Online
The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT), the first telescope of its kind, just came online in northern India!
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Hubble Pins Down the Mass of a Potential Free-Floating Black Hole That's 5,000 Light-Years Away
Do Supermassive Black Holes Prematurely end Star Formation in Some Galaxies?
Shenzhou-14 Astronauts Begin Their Mission of 6 Months in Space
Jupiter is up to 9% Rock and Metal, Which Means it Ate a lot of Planets in its Youth
Perseverance Has Been Carrying a Rock in its Wheel for Over 100 Days
A New Technique Finds a Bundle of Brown Dwarfs
Starship Will Spit out Starlinks Like a Candy Dispenser
A new SpaceX animation shows how the Starship will dispense the next-generation of Starlink satellites - Pez style!
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Which Missions and Observatories can Detect Technosignatures?
Venus Does Have Craters. Here's one
ESA is About to Release its Third Giant Data Release From Gaia
What's Out There? NASA Sets Up Independent Study on UFOs
JWST was Recently Hit by a Surprisingly Large Micrometeoroid
Hubble Finds a Bunch of Galaxies That Webb Should Check out
NASA has Purchased 5 More Crew Dragon Missions, Keeping the ISS Going Until 2030
To keep the International Space Station in continuous operation until 2030, NASA has ordered five more SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
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Cosmic Dawn Ended 1.1 Billion Years After the Big Bang
These Galaxies are Definitely Living in a Simulation
Curiosity Sees Bizarre Spikes on Mars
A new picture taken by NASA's Curiosity rover has revealed something interesting - a pair of spikes protruding from the ground.
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Ingenuity has Lost its Sense of Direction, but It'll Keep on Flying
Juno's Entire 42nd Flight Past Jupiter in One Amazing Mosaic
This is the Last Selfie InSight Will Ever Take
Astronomers Just Practiced What Would Happen if a Potentially Dangerous Asteroid was Detected
Perseverance is Seeing A LOT of Dust Devils
First Images From JWST are Coming on July 12th
Watch an Entire Flight by Ingenuity, From Take-off to Landing, Covering 704 Meters
Does a "Mirror World of Particles" Explain the Crisis in Cosmology?
A mirror universe model might explain why measurements of Hubble constant disagree.
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Hubble Sees a Surviving Companion Star After its Partner Went Supernova
What is the Best Radiation Shielding for the Surface of Mars?
A new study takes a look at potential methods for radiation shielding that could inform the creation of Martian habitats
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The Early Solar System was Total Mayhem
See All Naked Eye Planets This Month... in Order
June 2022 offers early risers the chance to trace out the naked eye planets, from Mercury to Saturn.
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Astronomers Find 116,000 New Variable Stars
Objects That Share the Same Orbit are Common in the Solar System. But we've Never Seen co-Orbital Exoplanets. Why?
A Pulsar has Been Found Turning so Slowly Astronomers Didn't Even Think it was Possible: Once Every 76 Seconds
Using the MeerKAT array, an international team of astronomers has detected a new class of radio-emitting neutron star!
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The Stars in Other Galaxies are Generally Heavier Than the Milky Way's Stars
