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James Webb Might be Able to Detect Other Civilizations by their Air Pollution
Twin Brown Dwarfs Discovered, Orbiting one Another at Three Times the Distance From the Sun to Pluto
Atomic Clocks Separated by Just a few Centimetres Measure Different Rates of Time. Just as Einstein Predicted
Imaging the Galaxy's Centre in Unprecedented Detail Reveals More Mysterious Filaments
New Photos Show a Black Hole Blasting out Powerful Winds
Astronomers Discover a Strange new Star That Might be From the Collision Between two Dead Stars
An Asteroid has Been Discovered With Three Moons!
As Temperatures Rise, Antarctica is Turning Green
A Colossal Flare Erupted From the Far Side of the Sun
TESS Finds Almost 100 Quadruple Star Systems
One of Life's Building Blocks can Form in Space
The First Image From NASA's new X-ray Observatory
Lasers Could Send Missions to Mars in Only 45 Days
New research from McGill University shows that a powerful laser array could propel a fusion-engine spacecraft to Mars in a matter of weeks!
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Planet Found in the Habitable Zone of a White Dwarf
Civilian Astronauts are Going to try Spacewalking From a Crew Dragon Capsule
Webb is Cool, but it Still Needs to get Cooler
How Well Does Concrete Work in Space?
Satellites can now see Exactly Where Methane is Being Dumped Into the Atmosphere
Astronomy Jargon 101: Hydrostatic Equilibrium
The Object About to Hit the Moon isn't a SpaceX Booster After All
Astronomers see Dead Planets Crashing Into Dead Stars
Some planets end by colliding with the remnant of their once shining star.
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Water was Already Here Before the Earth Formed
Astronomy Jargon 101: Hubble's Law
Musk Shows how They're Planning to Catch SuperHeavy Boosters
Astronomy Jargon 101: Heliosphere
A THIRD Planet Found Orbiting Nearby Proxima Centauri
Astronomers have confirmed the presence of a THIRD exoplanet in the neighboring Proxima Centauri system!
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James Webb's First Pictures are Out! But it's a Work in Progress
Astronomy Jargon 101: Gravitational Lens
We Might Know Why Mars Lost its Magnetic Field
Astronomers Measure the Layers of an Exoplanet's Atmosphere
UAE's Mars Hope Team Publishes 'Mars Atlas'
The United Arab Emirates Space Agency releases a unique comprehensive atlas of the Red Planet.
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Astronomy Jargon 101: Neutrinos
Elon Musk Takes the Long View in Glitzy Update on SpaceX's Starship Super-Rocket
Could Astronauts Hibernate on Long Space Voyages?
The ESA is investigating hibernation technology that could allow astronauts to remain healthy during long-duration missions to Mars and beyond
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Wow. Parker Solar Probe Took a Picture of the Surface of Venus
Astronomy Jargon 101: Galilean Moons
Asteroids are Dangerous, but They Might Also be the Key to Life on Earth
Astronomy Jargon 101: Event Horizon
We Finally Understand how Black Holes can Release Powerful Flares
Why are Neptune and Uranus Different Colors?
New research reveals why Uranus and Neptune are different shades of blue.
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Massive Rocky Planets Probably Don't Have big Moons
Astronomy Jargon 101: Eccentricity
New Startup Quantum Space is Planning to Build a Robotic Outpost Near the Moon
Mars Could Have Been wet for Much Longer Than Previously Believed
According to new NASA-sponsored research, Mars may have had an ocean as recent as 3 billion years ago (500 million years longer than expected).
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Simulation Predicts Where to Find 300,000 Meteorites Hidden in Antarctica
How Dark Matter Could Be Measured in the Solar System
Astronomy Jargon 101: Eclipsing Binary
The First Rogue Black Hole has Been Discovered, and it's Only 5,000 Light-Years Away
Astronomy Jargon 101: Elliptical Galaxy
The Space Shuttle was Originally Hoped to be a Fully Reusable two-Stage Rocket
A new animation shows what an alternate design for the Space Shuttle - a fully-reusable two-stage vehicle (DC-3) - would have looked like.
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