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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
Ganymede in Infrared Taken During Juno's Most Recent Flyby
With its latest flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, the Juno probe has created a new infrared map of Ganymede. This could lead to a better understanding of the moon's surface and interior ocean.
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Astronomy Jargon 101: Magnetars
Starship is Stacked on the Super Heavy Booster. The Tallest Rocket Ever Built
SpaceX achieved another milestone this week as the Starship and Super Heavy prototype were stacked and fully-integrated for the first time!
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Good News! Red Dwarfs Blast Their Superflares out the Poles, Sparing Their Planets From Destruction
The stellar flares of red dwarfs are mostly directed from their poles, which is good news for potentially habitable planets.
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Light Pollution is Making it Harder for Animals to Find Their Way at Night
Animals Could Have Been Around Hundreds of Millions of Years Earlier Than Previously Believed
According to new Earth sciences research, the oldest fossilized remains of animal life may have been found in the Canadian northwest.
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Russia's new Module Kicks the Station out of Position, Causes a Delay for Starliner
The new Russian module temporarily kicked the ISS out of position, causing a delay for Boeing's Starliner mission.
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The Tears of the Hero: Get Ready for the 2021 Perseid Meteors
A sure-fire summer shower, the Perseid meteors are set to put on a spectacular show this year.
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Astronomy and Geophysics is Rife With Bullying and Harassment
A new survey conducted by the Royal Astronomical Society has shown that the fields of astronomy and geophysics also suffer from a culture of bullying and harassment
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Two Spacecraft are Flying Past Venus, Just 33 Hours Apart
Shadows on the Moon Could be Hiding Water, Even in the Daytime
Astronomers Find a Huge Planet Orbiting its Star at 6,000 Times the Earth-Sun Distance
Scientists Figure out how the Asteroid Belt Attacked the Dinosaurs
NASA is Going Ahead With a Hopping Lander to Explore the Lunar Surface
Two Bizarre red Asteroids Somehow Migrated From the Kuiper Belt all the way to the Main Asteroid Belt
NASA Chooses Falcon Heavy Over SLS to Launch Europa Clipper, Saving About $2 Billion
