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Want a LEGO James Webb Space Telescope? It Even Folds Up
Rocky Planet Found With Only Half the Mass of Venus
Curiosity Might Not Be In An Ancient Lake At All
Astronomy Jargon 101: Adaptive Optics
Avoiding the Great Filter. How Long Until We're Living Across the Solar System?
According to a new study, humanity could become an interplanetary species in this century, interstellar by the 23rd, and intragalactic by the 24th.
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Astronomers Find a Nearby Star That a Spitting Image of a Young Sun
Astronomers have found a young star that is very similar to our Sun, and it could tell us about the origin of life on Earth.
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It Turns out There Were Supernovae Exploding all Over, we Just Couldn't see Them
Astronomy Jargon 101: Astronomical Unit
We'll Have to Wait About 3,000 Years for a Reply From Intelligent Civilizations
According to a new study by Harvard Professor Loeb and Amir Siraj, it would around 3000 years to hear a reply from an extraterrestrial civilization.
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Boeing Starliner Launch Scrubbed. No Idea When it Might fly
Skywatcher's Delight: Nova RS Ophiuchi in Outburst and Comet O1 Nishimura
The Perseids, a rare eruption of nova RS Ophiuchi and a challenging dawn comet round out an amazing week of skywatching.
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Astronomy Jargon 101: Parallax
Ganymede in Infrared Taken During Juno's Most Recent Flyby
With its latest flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, the Juno probe has created a new infrared map of Ganymede. This could lead to a better understanding of the moon's surface and interior ocean.
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Astronomy Jargon 101: Magnetars
Starship is Stacked on the Super Heavy Booster. The Tallest Rocket Ever Built
SpaceX achieved another milestone this week as the Starship and Super Heavy prototype were stacked and fully-integrated for the first time!
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Good News! Red Dwarfs Blast Their Superflares out the Poles, Sparing Their Planets From Destruction
The stellar flares of red dwarfs are mostly directed from their poles, which is good news for potentially habitable planets.
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Light Pollution is Making it Harder for Animals to Find Their Way at Night
Animals Could Have Been Around Hundreds of Millions of Years Earlier Than Previously Believed
According to new Earth sciences research, the oldest fossilized remains of animal life may have been found in the Canadian northwest.
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Russia's new Module Kicks the Station out of Position, Causes a Delay for Starliner
The new Russian module temporarily kicked the ISS out of position, causing a delay for Boeing's Starliner mission.
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The Tears of the Hero: Get Ready for the 2021 Perseid Meteors
A sure-fire summer shower, the Perseid meteors are set to put on a spectacular show this year.
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Astronomy and Geophysics is Rife With Bullying and Harassment
A new survey conducted by the Royal Astronomical Society has shown that the fields of astronomy and geophysics also suffer from a culture of bullying and harassment
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Two Spacecraft are Flying Past Venus, Just 33 Hours Apart
Shadows on the Moon Could be Hiding Water, Even in the Daytime
Astronomers Find a Huge Planet Orbiting its Star at 6,000 Times the Earth-Sun Distance
Scientists Figure out how the Asteroid Belt Attacked the Dinosaurs
NASA is Going Ahead With a Hopping Lander to Explore the Lunar Surface
Two Bizarre red Asteroids Somehow Migrated From the Kuiper Belt all the way to the Main Asteroid Belt
NASA Chooses Falcon Heavy Over SLS to Launch Europa Clipper, Saving About $2 Billion
A Black Hole Emitted a Flare Away From us, but its Intense Gravity Redirected the Blast Back in our Direction
Using the XMM-Newton and NuSTAR X-ray telescopes, an international team of scientists were able to see light coming from behind a black hole for the first time!
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Lightweight Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic Fuel Tanks Pass a Critical Test, and Could Knock a lot of Weight off a Rocket's dry Mass
InSight has Mapped out the Interior of Mars, Revealing the Sizes of its Crust, Mantle, and Core
In a series of newly-published papers, NASA scientists have shown how InSight's seismic data allowed them to measure the structure and thickness of Mars' interior.
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Bad News. Those Underground Lakes on Mars? They're Probably Just Frozen Clay
Starliner Will try Again on August 3 After ISS "Emergency"
The Event Horizon Telescope Zooms in on Another Supermassive Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just captured another amazing image, this time of the relativistic jet coming from the center of the Centaurus A galaxy.
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Strange Intersecting Sand Dunes on Mars
Blue Origin Offers a $2 Billion Discount to get Back in the Lunar Lander Game
Searching for Dark Matter Inside the Earth
A New Plan to Search for Extraterrestrial Artifacts at Earth and Across the Solar System
Professor Avi Loeb has announced a new project that will search for 'Oumuamua-like objects in our Solar System, which could be artifacts of extraterrestrial spacecraft
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Balloon Mission May Also Work to Detect Quakes on Venus
An opportunity in 2019 lays the groundwork for balloon-borne detectors on Venus, working to unravel a key mystery.
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This is how you get Tatooines. Binary Star Planet Formation
Water Vapour has Been Discovered at Ganymede
Europe Launches its new Robotic arm, Which Will Crawl Around the International Space Station Like an Inchworm
Perseverance is About to Collect the First Sample on Mars That Could Eventually be Returned to Earth
Mission controllers at NASA are making final preparations for the Perseverance rover to obtain its first sample of Martian rock, which will be returned to Earth for analysis.
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When the Sun Dies, Earth's Magnetosphere won't Provide Protection any More
Zhurong Finds its Own Parachute on the Surface of Mars
A Gravitational Wave Observatory on the Moon Could "Hear" 70% of the Observable Universe
A gravitational-wave telescope on the Moon could span the gap between Earth-based and space-based observations.
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Incredible! Astronomers see a Moon-Forming Disk Around a Newly Forming Planet
Observing the Night Side of Venus is Actually Pretty Tricky
Russia Just Launched a New Science Module to the Space Station
A new Balloon-Based Observatory Could Produce Images as Fine as Hubble
