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OSIRIS-REx Did One Last Close Flyby of Asteroid Bennu. It's Almost Time to Come Home
How's the Weather in Jezero Crater? According to Perseverance: Cold
The Perseverance rover just provided its first Martian weather report (it was cold!), which could help inform future missions involving astronauts.
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Primordial Asteroids That Never Suffered Massive Collisions all Seem to be Larger Than 100 km. Why?
The early asteroids had a similar size, and this could be due to turbulence in the early solar system.
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What Would Raindrops be Like on Other Worlds?
Jupiter Could Make an Ideal Dark Matter Detector
Perseverance Takes a Selfie With Ingenuity. It's Almost Time to fly
What are the Best Ways to Search for Technosignatures?
An Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Discovered Through the Gravitational Lensing of a Gamma-ray Burst
An intermediate mass black hole was discovered by its chance alignment with a gamma ray burst.
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Perseverance Captured This Image of a "Rainbow" on Mars, but it's just a Lens Flare in the Rover's Camera
Mars Helicopter Survives its First Night on Mars is Getting Ready to Fly
NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter survived its first night on the Martian surface and is preparing for its first test flight.
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Here's a Strange Rock That Perseverance Shot With its Laser
Lunar Gateway Will Maintain its Orbit With a 6 kW ion Engine
The ionic propulsion system that will allow the Lunar Gateway to orbit the Moon just got its first test, and passed with flying colors
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Uranus X-Rays are Probably Reflected Sunlight, but There Could be Another Source as Well
Is Dark Matter Responsible for Extra Gamma Rays Coming From the Center of the Milky Way?
There are new Stars Forming Near the Core of the Milky Way Despite the Harsh Environment
Roman Telescope Could Turn up Over 100,000 Planets Through Microlensing
InSight Detects Two Significant Quakes from the Cerberus Fossae Region on Mars
A new way to see Inside Neutron Stars
Astronomers study neutron stars using a method made famous by jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald.
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A Lake in a Martian Crater was Once Filled by Glacial Runoff
Using images obtained by the MRO, a team of researchers has found features on Mars that were formed billions of years ago from glacial run-off.
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Interstellar Comet Borisov is so Pristine, it's Probably Never Been Close to a Star Before
Satellites Have Brightened the Skies by About 10% Across the Entire Planet
TESS has Found 2,200 Potential Exoplanets so far
If Astronomers see Isoprene in the Atmosphere of an Alien World, There's a Good Chance There's Life There
According to new research from MIT, isoprene is another biosignature we should be on the lookout for on exoplanets!
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In a Comprehensive new Test, the EmDrive Fails to Generate any Thrust
Clear Signs of Recent Erosion on Mars
Jupiter's Great Red Spot has a Dark Secret. It Feeds on Smaller Storms
There are Ocean Currents Under the ice on Enceladus
A Billion Years From now There won't be Much Oxygen in the Earth's Atmosphere
The Debris Cloud From a Supernova Shows an Imprint of the Actual Explosion
The Closest Star Cluster to Earth is Being Dismantled in Front of our Eyes
Simulating the Universe a Trillionth of a Second After the Big Bang
Seen From Space, Iceland's new Volcano Lights up the Island at Night
Maybe Mars Didn't Lose its Water After All. It's Still Trapped on the Planet
Latest Starship Prototype SN11 Explodes in mid-air, Raining Debris on the Launch Site
SpaceX just conducted its fourth high-altitude flight test with a Starship prototype (SN11). Once again, there was a slight explosion!
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One Idea for a Lunar Lava Tube Explorer
LEGO Announces the Space Shuttle Discovery and Hubble Edition
Mars Spiders Form as Spring Arrives on Mars. But why?
This Time NASA's SLS Hotfire Goes the Full 8 Minutes
The Core Stage of NASA's SLS rocket passed its Hot Fire test with flying colors, remaining lit for over 8 minutes.
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A 1-Stage, Fully Reusable Lunar Lander Makes the Most Sense for Returning Humans to the Moon
A study conducted by researchers from Moscow and MIT has determined that a reusable lunar lander is the best option for "returning to the Moon."
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Careful Calculations Show That Earth is Safe From Asteroid Apophis for at Least 100 Years
The Event Horizon Telescope has Revealed the Magnetic Field Lines Around M87's Central Black Hole
A new look at the black hole in M87 tells us about the magnetic fields that drive its activity.
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Exploring the Moon's Shadowed Regions Using Beamed Energy
NASA is exploring new concepts for its long-awaited return to the Moon, one of which promises to "beam" power wherever its needed on the lunar surface.
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Newly Forming Stars Don't Blast Away Material as Previously Believed. So Why Do They Stop Growing?
A Very Powerful Solar Storm Hit the Earth Back in 1582
Gravitational Lenses Could Allow a Galaxy-Wide Internet
We could gravitationally lens radio signals to communicate with space probes at other stars. Maybe even communicate across the galaxy.
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Perseverance Begins its Science on Mars With a Laser zap
Rocks and Other Features at Perseverance's Landing Site are Getting Navajo Names
In conjunction with the Navajo Nation, the Perseverance mission team is designating features in the Jezero Crater with Najavo names
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New Binocular Nova Cas 2021 Flares in Cassiopeia
A 'new star' erupted into visibility over the past weekend, and continues to brighten.
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Mont Mercou on Mars
More Audio from Perseverance: the Crunch of its Wheels on the Martian Regolith
