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NASA Will be Sending two More Missions to Mars in 2024, Costing Just $80 Million
Another Flight for New Shepard, No Passengers This Time
Blue Origin completed its 17th successful flight with their New Shepard launch vehicle today, which was also the spacecraft's 8th consecutive launch.
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Interstellar Objects Might Outnumber Solar System Objects in the Oort Cloud
A study of the interstellar bodie 2I/Borisov aruges that the Oort cloud may consist more of alien objects than solar system objects.
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Saturn's 'Fuzzy Core' Seen In Ring Ripples
Seismic waves in Saturn's rings reveal the strange interior of the planet within.
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Advanced Civilizations Could be Using Dyson Spheres to Collect Energy From Black Holes. Here's how we Could Detect Them
This is How a Supermassive Black Hole Feeds
A new simulation has provided new insight into how supermassive black holes grow by feeding off of cosmic gas captured by the gravitational force of their galaxies.
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China's Rover Completes its Primary 90-day Mission, but it Still has More Science to do
The Best Evidence for Life on Mars Might be Found on its Moons
An Asteroid has Been Discovered That Crosses Mercury's Orbit
Dust Storms on Mars Continue to Make the Planet Drier
Combining data from three Mars orbiter missions, a team of scientists have found undeniably proof that regional dust storms are contributing to water loss on Mars.
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Watch: 14 Hours of Enceladus Geyser Action
SpaceX Thinks it can Send Humans to the Moon Sooner Than 2024
Astronomy Jargon 101: Standard Candles
The Milky Way Broke one of its Arms
James Webb's Upper Stage is off to the Launch Site
The rocket that will carry the James Webb Space Telescope to space later this year is on its way to the launch site!
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Astronomy Jargon 101: R-Process
Japan's Mission to Phobos Will Also Bring a Sample Home by 2029
Musk Confirms how "Mechazilla" Will Catch and Assemble Starship and Super Heavy for Rapid Reuse
A new animation shows how SpaceX's "Mechazilla" tower will be able to catch Super Heavy boosters and stack Starships onto them with less than an hour of turnaround time.
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Astronomy Jargon 101: Spectrum
Ingenuity's Flight 12 was a Tricky one, Flying Over Hazardous Terrain
Greenhouses Probably won't Work on Mars Because of Cosmic Radiation. Even the Plants Will Have to Live Underground
Musk Says That Refueling Starship for Lunar Landings Will Take 8 Launches (Maybe 4)
Bezos is still fighting for the HLS contract by claiming the Starship will require too many refueling missions, prompting Musk to respond.
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You can Tell how big a Black Hole is by how it Eats
Astronomers can determine the size of a black hole by the way it consumes nearby matter.
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Ingenuity Sees Perseverance From Above
Astronomy Jargon 101: Luminosity
Who was Giuseppe 'Bepi' Colombo and why Does he Have a Spacecraft Named After him?
Astronomy Jargon 101: Hertzsprung–Russell (HR) diagram
A new Assessment of the World's Climate is out. The News Isn't Good
According to the recently released IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, climate change is going to get significantly worse if we don't seriously clean up our act (and soon!)
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Can you Last a Year on Mars? NASA is Recruiting Crew for a Year-Long Analog Mission
Astronomy Jargon 101: Doppler Shift
Did the Moon Ever Have a Magnetosphere?
New research led by Rochester University has shown the Moon had a short-lived magnetosphere, which has implications for future lunar missions.
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If the First Black Holes Collapsed Directly, Could we Detect Radio Signals From Those Moments?
The birth of direct collapse black holes could be seen by radio telescopes in the near future.
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The First Images and Videos from the Double Venus Flyby
Matter From Light. Physicists Create Matter and Antimatter by Colliding Just Photons.
An effect predicted in 1934 has finally been observed, creating matter from light alone.
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Perseverance Fails to Collect its First Sample
The Perseverance rover failed to collect its first sample because the rock it tried to drill the sample from was too powdery.
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NASA Sends a 3D Printer for Lunar Regolith and More to the ISS
Dragonfly Mission has Some Ambitious Science Goals to Accomplish When it Arrives at Titan
OSIRIS-Rex got to Know Bennu Really Well. Apparently, There's now a 1-in-1,750 Chance That it'll hit Earth by 2300
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
