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The Early Earth was Really Horrible for Life
SpaceX Tests its Starship-Catching Launch Tower
Now we Know why Spaceflight Affects Your Eyes
The Surface of the Moon is Electrically Charged, Which Could Allow a Hovering Robot to Explore it
A team from MIT has developed a concept for a robotic mission that would use ion beams to levitate on airless bodies like the Moon and asteroids.
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Webb's Mirror Now Fully Unfolded. Prepare to Witness the Power of This Unprecedented Space Telescope
Astronomers Discover a Totally New Kind of Nebula
A New Image Reveals Orion's Flame Nebula in Infrared
China's Rover Checks out that Weird Cube on the Moon. Surprise! It's a Rock.
Here's Why Webb Doesn't Have Cameras on Board to Livestream its Deployment
An Incredible View Into the Heart of the Small Magellanic Cloud
Why don't Green Comets Have Green Tails?
Comets with a green glow don't have green tails, and a new set of lab experiments tells us why.
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Astronomers Find the Biggest Structure in the Milky Way, a Filament of Hydrogen 1,600 Light-Years Long
An international team of astronomers spotted the largest filament of hydrogen in our galaxy, which could offer tantalizing clues about how stars are born.
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JWST Deploys its Secondary Mirror. It's a Real Telescope Now
China's Tianwen-1 Spacecraft Took a Selfie Using a Tiny, Secondary Spacecraft
Astronomers Find 70 Planets Without Stars Floating Free in the Milky Way
A international team of astronomers, using observatories all over the world (and one in space), discovered 70 new rogue planets - the largest sample ever!
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Success! Webb Sunshield Now Fully Deployed
2029 Will be the Perfect Year to Launch a Mission to Sedna
A Detailed Scan of the Milky Way Finds Possible "Fossil" Spiral Arms
New research has revealed previously unknown wispy structures in the Milky Way disk that could offer clues about the history of our galaxy.
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JWST Just Deployed a Sail That Lets it Stop Getting Pushed Around by the Sun's Radiation.
The James Webb just deployed another important instrument - the aft momentum flap - that will keep the telescope steady as it makes its groundbreaking observations.
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An Exoplanet Found Protected by a Magnetosphere
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has spotted the magnetosphere of an exoplanet for the first time.
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Still Nervous about JWST? Friday and Saturday's Sunshield Deployments will be Nail-biters
Want Updates on JWST? NASA's Site Will Bury you in Data: Distance, Temperatures, Deployment Stats... Everything
JWST's Precise Launch and Near-Perfect Course Corrections Mean Fuel Savings. And That Means a Longer Mission
If you had Radio Telescopes for Eyes, one of the Biggest Things in the sky Would be a jet of Material Blasting out of a Nearby Galaxy
Astronomers have captured a radio galaxy that spans 16 Moon-widths in the sky.
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Astronomy 2022: Top Skywatching Events for the Coming Year
Meteor showers, eclipses and a fine opposition of Mars top out astronomy 2022.
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New Calculations Show That an Interstellar Bussard Ramjet Drive Would Need a Magnetic Field Stretching 150 Million Kilometres
A new analysis of the fabled Bussard Ramjet shows that the spacecraft would need an impossibly big magnetic field to achieve interstellar travel.
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Here's DART's First Picture From Space. We Are Already Looking Forward to its Last Image
The Real Science Behind the Movie "Don't Look Up"
JWST Is On Its Way!
Primordial Black Holes Could Explain Dark Matter and the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes at the Same Time
The James Webb telescope might discover primordial black holes in the near future.
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Best Image Ever Taken of Stars Buzzing Around the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
The GRAVITY collaboration just released the clearest images ever of the stars that orbit the supermassive black hole in the heart of our galaxy!
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This Video of Comet Leonard (with Venus and Mercury) will Blow Your Mind
The Bottom of Valles Marineris Seems to Have Water Mixed in With the Regolith
According to data obtained by ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter, it looks like there's plenty of water ice at the bottom of Valles Marineris on Mars.
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Life Could Make Habitable Pockets in Venus' Atmosphere
SpaceX is Hoping to Turn Atmospheric CO2 Into Rocket Fuel
Elon Musk has announced that SpaceX may start a carbon capture program as an eco-friendly way of creating propellant.
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Webb Telescope Officially Cleared for Launch on December 25
Now We Know Why Pluto has These Strange Features on its Surface
Floating "Aerobats" Could be the Best way to Explore the Cloud Tops of Venus
Researchers, with support from NASA, are developing software that will allow balloon-based aerial robots to explore Venus' atmosphere.
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Japanese Billionaire Finishes Up Space Station Mission With Online Flourishes
Astronomy Jargon 101: Irregular Galaxies
Astronomy Jargon 101: Galactic Halo
The Moon is a Barren and Desolate, but Lunar Caves Could Offer Some Shelter From the Harsh Environment
New research shows that cave and pits on the Moon range considerably in terms of temperature, which is vital knowledge for the creation of future bases.
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Astronomy Jargon 101: Giant Molecular Clouds
Astronomy Jargon 101: Escape Velocity
Would Mars be More Habitable if it Orbited a Red Dwarf?
A NASA-supported study by an international multi-disciplinary team has shown what Mars would be like if it orbited a red dwarf star.
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With 17 Flights Completed, Ingenuity has Spent 30 Minutes Aloft on Mars
Astronomy Jargon 101: Dark Matter
NASA has 4 new Earth Science Missions Launching in 2022
Astronomy Jargon 101: Cosmic Strings
Parker Solar Probe Flies Through the Sun's Outer Atmosphere for the First Time
