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Pictures from Curiosity Show the Bottom of an Ancient Lake on Mars, the Perfect Place to Search for Evidence of Past Life
NASA is Building Robots That Can Climb Rock and Ice Cliffs
Engineers at NASA JPL are busy developing next-generation robotic missions that will allow astronauts to explore harder-to-reach places in the search for life.
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Hayabusa 2 is the First Spacecraft to Sample the Inside of an Asteroid
Our Guide to Tuesday Night's Partial Lunar Eclipse
Happen to be in Europe, Africa, Asia or Australia on Tuesday night with clear skies? I July weather cooperates, you'll have a good view of the final lunar eclipse for 2019.
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Messier 89 - the NGC 4552 Spiral Galaxy
Located in the Virgo constellation, roughly 50 million light years from Earth, is the elliptical galaxy known as Messier 89.
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There's A Fire in Greenland... Again. It's 10 Degrees Hotter Than Normal
Here's a First. Astronomers See a Moon Forming Around a Baby Exoplanet
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Hubble Spots "Impossible" Debris Disk Around a Black Hole
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers recently observed a bright disk around a black hole that defies astronomical models.
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Researchers May Have Found the Missing Piece of Evidence that Explains the Origins of Life
A team of researchers have shown how the basic building blocks of life could have arose on a primordial Earth, bringing us one step closer to resolving the mystery of abiogenesis.
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Move Over SpaceX. Amazon Wants To Launch Thousands of Internet Satellites Too
Virgin Orbit Tests its Satellite-Delivery Rocket for the First Time
Virgin Orbit achieved a milestone with a successful drop test of their LauncherOne rocket. Once complete, this system will deliver satellites to orbit for less money.
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There Should Be More Iron In Space. Why Can't We See It?
Two NASA Heads Demoted, Possibly as Part of a Shake-Up to Get Back to the Moon.
NASA is experiencing a shake-up, as evidenced by the recent announcement that two longtime program leaders have been demoted.
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NASA has Figured Out How to Extend the Lives of the Voyagers Even Longer
New Study Shows How Breaching "Carbon Threshold" Could Trigger Mass Extinction in Earth's Oceans
A NASA and NSF-supported study by an MIT geophysicist indicates that carbon emissions could push the Earth's oceans past a "threshold", leading to a possible mass extinction.
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Can We Use Special Sails To Bring Old Satellites Back Down To Earth?
Skywatcher and Satellite Tracker Photographs US Air Force's Secret Space Plane in Orbit!
A satellite tracker from The Netherlands recently spotted and photographed the USAF's elusive and top-secret X-37B space plane.
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Mars' North Pole is Doing the Dust Storms Thing Again
LightSail 2 Mission is Going Strong and Sending Mission Info Home!
The Planetary Society recently launched its LightSail 2 technology demonstrator, which could prove to be an effective means of propulsion for CubeSats
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Our Guide to Saturn Opposition Season 2019
The ESA's SpaceBok Robot Will Hop Its Way Around Low-Gravity Worlds
A Jarful of Titan Could Teach Us A Lot About Life There, and Here On Earth
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Fraser and John Michael Godier Debate the Fermi Paradox
Orion Capsule Passes Key Launch Abort Test. Next Stop: The Moon!
NASA recently conducted their second test of the Orion's Abort Launch System (ALS), bringing them one step closer to returning to the Moon in 2024.
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Where Does Mars' Methane Go? New Study Provides Possible Answer, with Implications in the Search for Life.
A new study from Aarhus University offers new insight into what is making Mars' methane "disappear" - with serious implications in the search for life.
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The Planet-Hunting TESS Discovers Its Smallest Exoplanet to Date
TESS recently discovered a three-planet system orbiting a red dwarf star 35 light years away, increasing the number of rocky planets orbiting nearby stars.
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NASA's Still Trying to Get InSight's Mole Working Again. Progress is Slow.
NASA Telescopes Reveal the Atmosphere of a Strange Hybrid Exoplanet
Hubble has a Brand New Picture of the Massive Star Eta Carinae. It Could Detonate as a Supernova Any Day Now
Dr. Avi Loeb Thinks the Government Should set its Sights on Big Ideas in Space Exploration
In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing, a Harvard Professor and former White House science advisor recommend that the US government remain invested in research and space exploration.
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SpaceX has Lost Contact With 3 of its Starlink Satellites
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Airplane Contrails are Contributing to Global Warming Too
"Eight Years to the Moon:" Read a Book Excerpt
Who Wants to be a Trillionaire? Mission to Psyche Could Uncover Tons of Precious Metals!
NASA's Psyche mission is sure to find some interesting things when it explores a metal asteroid, like quadrillions of dollars worth of precious metals!
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Ep. 536: Everyday Relativity
Astronomers See Evidence of Supermassive Black Holes Forming Directly in the Early Universe
Meet the Comet Interceptor. It'll Wait Patiently In Space for a Comet, Then Pounce On It
The Latest Insanely Beautiful Image of Jupiter Captured by Juno
A Fast Radio Burst has Finally Been Traced Back to its Source: the Outskirts of a Galaxy 4 Billion Light-Years Away
An Australian-led research effort has managed to pinpoint the location of the first non-repeating Fast Radio Burst, which could have immense implications for astronomy.
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Earth To Mars In 100 Days? The Power Of Nuclear Rockets
NASA is Going Back to Saturn's Moon Titan, this Time With a Nuclear Battery-Powered Quadcopter
French Scientists Claim to Have Created Metallic Hydrogen
A team of French scientists recently claimed to have created metallic hydrogen in a laboratory, a claim which is triggering both enthusiasm and skepticism
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Eruption of the Raikoke Volcano, Seen From Space
Our Complete Guide to the July 2019 Total Solar Eclipse
You couldn't order up a geekier celestial scene from the cosmos. Next Tuesday on July 2nd, the second of three seasons begins for 2019, with the only total solar eclipse of the year spanning the southern tip of South America, including the nations of Chile and Argentina. As an extra-special part of the spectacle, however, the path of totality for the eclipse passes right over the La Silla observatory complex in the Atacama Desert.
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The Most Efficient Way to Explore the Entire Milky Way, Star by Star
At this year's Global Trajectory Optimization Competition (GTOC), a team from the ESA presented a model for how humanity could settle the Milky Way galaxy.
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SpaceIL Scraps its Plans to go Back to the Moon. Instead, it's Got a New Secret "Significant Objective" for Beresheet 2
Lakes on Titan Might Have Exotic Crystals Encrusted Around Their Shores
