Meeting Mercury at Dusk in July

By David Dickinson - July 04, 2024 02:36 AM UTC | Observing

Mercury puts on one of its best apparitions for 2024 this month.

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A New View of Olympus Mons

By Evan Gough - July 03, 2024 04:38 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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LEGO Bricks Printed out of Space Dust

By Nancy Atkinson - July 03, 2024 04:36 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Basketball-Sized Meteorites Strike the Surface of Mars Every Day

By Evan Gough - July 03, 2024 02:18 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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More Evidence that the Kuiper Belt is Bigger Than We Thought

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - July 03, 2024 01:28 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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A Concentrated Beam of Particles and Photons Could Push Us to Proxima Centauri

By Andy Tomaswick - July 03, 2024 10:59 AM UTC | Space Exploration

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Plate Tectonics Might Only Occur on 0.003% of Planets. That Makes Earth Very Special Indeed.

By sjohnston - July 02, 2024 07:41 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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Alpha Centauri Could Have a Super Jupiter in Orbit

By Evan Gough - July 02, 2024 03:51 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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Could We Replace Ingenuity With a Swarm of Robotic Bees?

By Andy Tomaswick - July 02, 2024 11:07 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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Mysterious Swirls on the Moon Could Be Explained by Underground Magma

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - July 02, 2024 12:12 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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Robotic Rover Could Support Astronauts on Moonwalks

By Andy Tomaswick - July 01, 2024 11:25 AM UTC | Space Exploration

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Exomoons: Why study them? What can they teach us about finding life beyond Earth?

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - June 30, 2024 10:50 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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What's Next for the Event Horizon Telescope? Twelve Possible New Targets

By mark-thompson - June 30, 2024 07:42 PM UTC | Black Holes

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Neutron Stars: Why study them? What makes them so fascinating?

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - June 30, 2024 06:06 PM UTC | Stars

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Galaxies Filled With Old Stars Seen Shortly After the Big Bang

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - June 30, 2024 09:56 AM UTC | Extragalactic

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The Space Station Now Has Blisteringly Fast Internet

By Cathrine Versfeld - June 30, 2024 06:45 AM UTC | Space Exploration

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Merging Galaxies Make for Explosive Star Formation

By mark-thompson - June 30, 2024 04:24 AM UTC | Extragalactic

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Determining the Safest Martian Caves for Future Astronauts

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - June 29, 2024 10:12 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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NASA Releases a New 3D Animation of the Lunar Gateway

By mark-thompson - June 29, 2024 08:19 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Supernovae: Why study them? What can they teach us about finding life beyond Earth?

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - June 29, 2024 07:26 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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