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Japan Suspends its Funding for the 30-Meter Telescope
Comparing Mountains on the Moon to the Earth's Peaks
Beyond Robotic Arms. Canada Funds Technology for Space Exploration
The Canadian Space Agency recently awarded contracts to a series of companies to develop technologies and tools to aid in the coming era of lunar exploration.
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WFIRST Passes an Important Milestone, it's Time to Begin Development and Testing
Curiosity's Latest Mars Panorama, Captured in 1.8 Billion Glorious Pixels
The First Artemis Launch has Been Delayed Until Mid-to-Late 2021
To kick off the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC), NASA Assoc. Admin. Steve Jurczyk indicated that the first Artemis mission will be delayed a little.
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Are Low Density "Cotton Candy" Exoplanets Actually Just Regular Planets With Rings?
Two White Dwarfs Merged Together Into a Single "Ultramassive" White Dwarf
The Disk of the Milky Way is Warped Because it Already Collided With Another Galaxy
Using data from the second Gaia data release, a team of astronomers has demonstrated that the "warp" in our galaxy is rapidly changing!
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Weekly Space Hangout: March 4, 2020 - Did RIT Scientists Find A Baby Giant Planet?
During A Lunar Eclipse, It's A Chance To See Earth As An Exoplanet
Phew, Earth-Watching DSCOVR is Operational Again
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NASA is Planning to Build a Lunar Rover With a 1-Meter Drill to Search for Water Ice
Magnetic Fields Around Mars InSight are 10x Stronger than Scientists Expected
Data from the first year of the InSight mission has just been released, and its revealing some unexpected things about Mars' magnetic fields.
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3 Billion Years Ago, the World Might Have Been a Waterworld, With No Continents At All
Introducing Analog Sky's 3D-Printed Giant Binoculars
Even Though it Was Observing an Asteroid, OSIRIS-REx Accidentally Spotted a Black Hole
Another Reminder that Spaceflight is Difficult. Starship Prototype Explodes and Falls Over
SpaceX suffered another setback when its Starship prototype SN1 exploded during a loading test - similar to what happened to the last prototype.
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Here's a New Planetary Nebula for Your Collection: CVMP 1
What is the Steady State Hypothesis?
When it comes to cosmological theories, the Big Bang theory has historically had only one big contender - the Steady State Hypothesis
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What is a Generation Ship?
The concept of a Generation Ship is a time-honored one, but is it the best way to send an interstellar mission to colonize a distant planet?
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A Picture of Earth's New Temporary Moon
Riding the Wave of a Supernova to Go Interstellar
A new paper by two Harvard professors explores the idea of using supernova as a means of high-speed interstellar travel - something advanced alien species could be doing right now!
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A Commercial Satellite Just Docked with Another for the First Time, Opening Up a New Era in Orbital Maintenance
Astronomers Discover a Tiny New Temporary Moon for the Earth. Welcome to the Family 2020 CD3
Look down into a pit on Mars. The caved-in roof of a lava tube could be a good place to explore on the Red Planet
Future Astronauts Could Enjoy Fresh Vegetables From an Autonomous Orbital Greenhouse
A team from a Russian polytechnic university is working on an autonomous space module where fresh vegetables could be grown for astronauts.
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The Life of Katherine Johnson Shows that 'Hidden Figures' Are Important to History
Solar Storms Might Confuse Whale Navigation, and Make Them More Likely to Strand Themselves
Weekly Space Hangout: February 26, 2020 - Czarina Salido of Time In Cosmology is 'Taking Up Space'
Detecting Exoplanets Through Their Exoauroras
A team of scientists from the Netherlands have proposed an exciting new approach for finding exoplanets: look for signs of auroras!
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InSight has been Sensing Dust Devils Sweep Past its Landing Site
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Betelgeuse Is Brightening Again
After an usual period of dimming Betelgeuse is growing brighter. But no supernova yet.
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After a Challenging First Year on Mars, InSight Shows Us that Mars is Seismically Active
Comet Y4 Atlas in Outburst: First Good Comet for 2020?
Good news: Though we've been going through a cometary dry spell as of late, we may have our first good naked eye comet for 2020: Comet C/2019 Y4 ATLAS.
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A New Kind of Rocket that's Lightweight and Easier to Construct: a Rotating Detonating Engine. Unfortunately, it's Also Completely Unpredictable
A new type of engine - known as the rotating detonation engine - could revolutionize rocketry and make space exploration more cost-effective
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Who was Aristotle?
In the history of science, few scholars have as much of an enduring influence as classical philosopher Aristotle, whose theories would become canon for almost 2000 years.
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Solar Orbiter is Already Starting to Observe the Sun
The ESA's Solar Orbiter, which took to space over earlier this month, recently sent back its first batch of data to mission controllers on Earth.
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Dust Devils Have Left Dark Streaks All Over This Martian Crater
Nutrient-Poor and Energy-Starved. How Life Might Survive at the Extremes in the Solar System
How Interferometry Works, and Why it's so Powerful for Astronomy
Japan Is Sending a Lander to Phobos
SETI Researchers Release Petabytes of Data in the Search For Aliens
Breakthrough Listen, the most extensive SETI survey in history, has just made its second release of data, and its once again the biggest ever made!
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Both Stars in This Binary System Have Accretion Disks Around Them
Weekly Space Hangout: February 19, 2020 - John Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic
Salt Water Might Still be Able to Collect on the Surface of Mars a Few Days a Year
A new study from the PSI indicates that around Mars' equator, salt water could form on the surface for a few days out of the year.
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ESA is Considering a Mission to Give Advanced Warnings of Solar Storms
A New Technique to Make Lighter Radiation Shielding For Spacecraft: Rust.
A new technique for creating lighter and cheaper radiation shielding involves a secret ingredient: rust!
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