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Sand Dunes on Mars Shift From Season to Season
A new Method to Capture High-Resolution Images of Space Debris
An Exotic Explanation for the Most Extreme Gravitational Wave Detected so far
A new study proposes an exotic boson star to explain the largest gravitational wave merger we've observed.
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Phobos and Deimos: Two Moons, From One Source?
Running the clock back on the enigmatic pair of Martian moons Phobos and Deimos gives researchers insight to their possible origin.
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This Is What Rolling Blackouts Look Like From Space
Perseverance Seen From Space by ESA's ExoMars Orbiter
The ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter (part of the ExoMars 2020 mission) has revealed images of the Perseverance rover and where it landed.
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ESA is Working on a Mission to Explore Caves on the Moon
Parker Solar Probe Captured Images of Venus on its way to the Sun
A Review of "Extraterrestrial" by Prof. Avi Loeb
Professor Avi Loeb's new book, Extraterrestrial, tells the tale of how he 'Oumuamua may be humanity's first interstellar messenger.
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Dust Particles in the Martian Atmosphere can Create Static Electricity, but not Enough to Endanger the Rovers
Some Earth Life Could Already Survive on Mars
Did Ancient Martian Life Eat Rocks For Food?
Astronomers Think They've Found the Neutron Star Remnant Left Behind from Supernova 1987A
One Type of Fast Radio Bursts... Solved?
A new study of x-ray bursts from a local magnetar confirms the origin of a fast radio burst.
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The Core Of The Milky Way Is An Extreme Place
What a Geologist Sees When They Look at Perseverance's Landing Site
Titan's Atmosphere Recreated in an Earth Laboratory
A recent study led by IBM-Zurich has recreated what goes on in Titan's atmosphere, which could help scientists find evidence of life there in the near future!
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Our Part of the Galaxy is Packed with Binary Stars
The Space Court Foundation Presents: "Women of Color in Space"
The Space Court Foundation has launched a new series titled Women of Color in Space! Their first interview with Ruvimbo Samanga is now available for viewing.
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There was a Secret Code in the Perseverance Parachute
Cygnus X-1 was the First Black Hole Ever Found. New Measurements Show it's Much More Massive Than Previously Believed
New parallax measurements of Cygnus X-1 by the VLBA find it is more distant than we thought, and therefore more massive.
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Perseverance's Landing ... Seen From Orbit!
Since Perseverance is Searching for Life, What Will it Be Looking for?
A map of 25,000 Supermassive Black Holes Across the Universe
The Low Frequency Array has mapped a portion of the sky at the lowest radio frequencies ever, revealing more than 25,000 supermassive black holes.
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Watch Perseverance Land on Mars. Mind...Blown
How Long Will Space Junk Take to Burn Up? Here's a Handy Chart
There's Evidence That Mars Once Had an Atmosphere With Less Oxygen. A Possible Biosignature For Life?
The Mars Helicopter is Online and Getting Ready to Fly
Protogalaxy Cluster Found When the Cosmic Fog Was Starting to Clear, When the Universe Was Just 750 Million Years Old
Just Some of the Planets That TESS Has Found Nearby
Using data from TESS and a number of other observatories, an international team has found a system with three exoplanets relatively close to Earth.
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Once He Steps Down From Amazon, Jeff Bezos Will be Able to Focus his Energy on Blue Origin
Jeff Bezos' recent decision to step down as CEO of Amazon could be good news for Blue Origin, one of SpaceX's chief competitors!
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Did a Comet Wipe out the Dinosaurs?
A new Approach Could Tease out the Connection Between Gravity and Quantum Mechanics
A proposed experiment using super-cooled atoms could reveal the nature of quantum gravity.
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Perseverance has Landed. Here are its First Pictures From the Surface of Mars
Following the Jovian Moons Through 2021 Mutual Eclipse Season
Watch as the Jovian moons perform a spectacular celestial dance in 2021.
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We Could Find Extraterrestrial Civilizations by Their Air Pollution
Magnetic Fields Help Shape the Formation of New Planets
Juno Just Saw a Spacerock Crash Into Jupiter
The Largest Crater on the Moon Reveals Secrets About its Early History
NASA's Perseverance Rover: The Most Ambitious Space Mission Ever?
NASA's InSight Will Have Reduced Capability Until a Dust Devil Cleans off its Solar Panels
Water Shaped Features on Mars Much Earlier Than Previously Believed
According to a new study, the Perseverance rover could find evidence in Jezero that will allow scientists to reconstruct the planet's chronology.
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This is What Happens to Spacecraft When They Re-Enter the Earth's Atmosphere
The Surprising Discovery of Ceramic Chips Inside Meteorites Means There Were Wild Temperature Variations In the Early Solar System
A Combined Map of Almost 15,000 Dust Storms on Mars
A Cluster of Black Holes Found Inside a Globular Cluster of Stars
Globular clusters can be home to lots of stellar-mass black holes, rather than a single intermediate mass black hole.
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NASA has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Using the Falcon Heavy
According to a recent statement, NASA has contracted SpaceX to launch the core elements of the Gateway to the Moon with the Falcon Heavy by 2024.
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Lunar Spacecraft Gets an Upgrade to Capture New Perspectives of the Moon
How Old is the Ice at Mars' North Pole?
Using data from the MRO's HiRISE camera, a team of researchers from UC Boulder have provided a starting point for reconstructing the history of Mars' climate.
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ESA's Solar Orbiter 'Hides' Behind the Sun
A deep-space mission is about to pull a 'vanishing act,' through mid-February, as the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter (affectionately known as 'SolO' to mission controllers) makes a crucial pass behind the Sun.
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