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Video Shows a Meteoroid Skipping off Earth's Atmosphere
NASA's New Budget for Artemis? $28 Billion
Just in time for the upcoming elections, NASA has presented Congress with the projected budget for sending astronauts back to the Moon!
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Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" X: What is the Firstborn Hypothesis?
In this latest instalment, we explore the possibility that humanity is an early arrival to the Universe, and that intelligent species will become more common with time.
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Time Travel, Without the Pesky Paradoxes
So you've built a time machine. What prevents you from creating a paradox that dooms us all?
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Gaia has Already Given Us 5 New Insights Into the Milky Way
NASA Releases a New Poster for the Europa Clipper Mission
In anticipation of this upcoming mission, NASA has released a stunning poster for the Europa Clipper mission!
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See a 360 Degree Juno-Eye View of Jupiter During an Io Eclipse
Hayabusa2's Mission isn't Over. It has a New Asteroid Target to Visit: 1998 KY26
Astronauts are Getting a New Toilet Next Week
The Shadow from M87's Supermassive Black Hole has Been Observed Wobbling Around the Galaxy for Years
Over the past decade, the shadow of a black hole in M87 has been wobbling, which tells us about how matter behaves near a black hole.
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A New Mass Extinction has been Discovered, Wiping Out Life 233 Million Years Ago, and Leading to the Rise of the Dinosaurs
Here's Jupiter from Juno's Latest Flyby
Perseverance Will be Scanning Inside Rocks for Fossils on Mars
When it arrives on Mars next year, Perseverance will use a next-generation X-ray scanner assisted by AI to search for the fossil remains of ancient life!
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Weekly Space Hangout: September 23, 2020, Col. Terry Virts (USAF ret.) Tells Us "How to Astronaut"
Even Comets Can Have Auroras. Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Does
Solar Cycle 25 has arrived. Here's what to expect from the Sun in the coming months and years
There Could Be Carbon-Rich Exoplanets Made Of Diamonds
Chinese Asteroid Mining Robot Due to Launch in November
Chitin Could be the Perfect Building Material on Mars
Asteroid Bennu has little pieces of Vesta on it
Our Complete Guide to Mars Opposition Season 2020
Grab your telescope: when it comes to astronomy, 2020 saved the best for last, with a fine opposition of the planet Mars coming right up next month on October 13th.
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NASA's Janus Mission is Going to Visit Two Binary Asteroids
The Surface of Mars Might Have Gotten an Acid Bath, Obscuring Evidence of Past Life
According to a recent study, the presence of acidic and alkali fluids on the surface of Mars mean that its soil is not likely to hold onto evidence of past life.
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If dark matter is a particle, it should get inside red giant stars and change the way they behave
A History of the Magellanic Clouds and How They Got Their Names
The Destruction of Dark Matter isn't Causing Extra Radiation at the Core of the Milky Way
While recent studies suggest that dark matter interactions might create gamma rays, a new study of gamma rays in our galaxy throws shade on that idea.
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This is the View You Get Staring out of the Space Station's Cupola Module
It Looks Like Firefighters Saved Mt. Wilson Observatory
Thanks to the heroic efforts of firefighters, the Mt. Wilson Observatory is now safe from the California wildfires raging through the region.
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How Much Life Would Be Required to Create the Phosphine Signal on Venus?
Artemis Missions Should Bring Ice Home From the Moon Too
In a recent white paper, a team of scientists proposed that NASA's Artemis astronauts should also bring back samples of lunar ice to determine where the Moon's water comes from
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Design for a Space Habitat With Artificial Gravity That Could Be Grown Larger Over Time to Fit More People
Searching for Phosphorus in Other Stars
The Space Court Foundation is Now in Session!
The Space Court Foundation hopes to play a pivotal role in the evolving domain of space law, which is going to become very important in the coming years!
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James Webb Will Look for Signs of Life on Planets Orbiting Dead Stars
Weekly Space Hangout: September 16, 2020 – Dr. Merav Opher Discusses the Shape of the Sun's Heliosphere
Astronomers Measure a 1-billion Tesla Magnetic Field on the Surface of a Neutron Star
Colliding Neutron Stars Don't Make Enough Gold to Explain What We See in the Universe
Much of the gold we find on Earth was created by colliding neutron stars, but astronomers now know gold must also be formed elsewhere.
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Check Out How Big the Planets and the Moon Will be in Our Sky Over the Next Two Years
Thousands Saw a UFO in New Jersey. It was the Goodyear Blimp
Missions Are Already Being Planned to Figure Out What's Creating the Biosignature on Venus
Uranus' Moons are Surprisingly Similar to Dwarf Planets in the Kuiper Belt
Sunrises Across the Solar System
NASA Will Pay You to Retrieve Regolith and Rocks from the Moon
NASA is offering to pay commercial contractors to retrieve lunar regolith and rocks to demonstrate their ability to harvest resources on the Moon
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Astronomers Have Discovered a 2-km Asteroid Orbiting Closer to the Sun than Venus
The Milky Way is Already Starting to Digest the Magellanic Clouds, Starting With Their Protective Halos of Hot Gas
Extreme galaxies depend on extreme conditions for their formation
A beautiful picture of Saturn's heavily-cratered moon Mimas, processed by @kevinmgill
The SpaceX Starship Could be Making its Biggest Hop Yet (and a Belly-Flop) Next Month!
Elon Musk and SpaceX appear to be gearing up for a high-altitude hop test with the SN8 before the end of October!
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Did Scientists Just Find Signs of Life on Venus?
Small Amounts of Dark Matter are Creating Much Stronger Gravitational Distortions than Anyone Expected to See
Dark matter is much more clumpy than we thought, which means some dark matter might be very cold.
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