A new study led by Princeton University shows that water worlds are likely to be stripped of their atmospheres (and most of their water) before too long
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Space scientists are considering how they can catch the charged particles streaming from the Sun with electric sails as a way to propel spacecraft through the Solar System.
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Thanks to the over 500,000 pictures taken by the Cassini mission, Google Maps has created a mapping tool that allows users to virtually explore the Solar System.
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — As one Atlas rocket carrying a covert spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to monitor Earth for national security purposes faded into cloudy nighttime skies over the Cape in the dead of night shrouded in liftoff secrecy, rocket builder United Launch Alliance (ULA) won another significant Atlas launch contract for NASA's Landsat 9 satellite to monitor the health of Earth's environment.
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According to a new analysis, the number of undiscovered and potentially-hazardous asteroids could be lower than previously thought.
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A recent study from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has produced a new 3-D model for determining exoplanet habitability.
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5 years after a heart throbbing Martian touchdown, Curiosity is climbing Vera Rubin Ridge in search of "aqueous minerals" and "clays" for clues to possible past life while capturing "truly breathtaking" vistas of humongous Mount Sharp - her primary destination – and the stark eroded rim of the Gale Crater landing zone from ever higher elevations, NASA scientists tell Universe Today in a new mission update.
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A team of astronomers from the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has confirmed that Earth's "temporary Moon" is an asteroid, and not space junk.
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Some comets orbit the Sun on a regular basis, but others come in from deep space, a region known as the Oort Cloud. What causes them to make this journey, and will we ever be able to explore the Oort Cloud?
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One of the many interesting finds made by the Cassini orbiter before it crashed into Saturn was evidence of a hybrid, toxic ice cloud above Titan's southern pole.
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A new study by a team from the University of Michigan has shown how Planet 9 could have prevented TNOs from being destroyed or ejected over time.
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A new study by JAXA and international scientists has confirmed the existence of a stable lava tube in the Marius Hills region of the Moon.
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A new study by a team of European scientists has shown how metal-eating bacteria could have left their mark on Mars, which could be discovered by future missions
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A new study from Brown University has offered a possible explanation for how surface water could have flown on Mars roughly 4 billion years ago.
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PORT CANAVERAL/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The now twice flown SpaceX first stage booster that successfully delivered the SES-11 UHDTV satellite to orbit Wednesday, Oct 11, sailed proudly back home into Port Canaveral during a beautiful Sunday sunrise, Oct. 15 only three days after it safely landed on a tiny droneship at sea.
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Located in the direction of the Virgo constellation, some 68 million light years from Earth, is the barred, spiral galaxy known as Messier 58.
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A recent study by UCLA scientists has shown a link between extreme rainstorms on Titan and surface features detected by the Cassini orbiter.
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — A clandestine black ops satellite supporting US national defense launched into the black skies over Florida's spaceport in the dead of night Sunday, Oct. 15, on a mission for the U.S. governments National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) that lit up the night skies offering a spectacular vista on its journey to orbit.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Elon Musk's extraordinary vision of an era when re-flown rockets are offered as a 'routine service' rather than the exception is a 'major sea change getting closer' to fruition with each passing day thanks to SpaceX, said SES CTO Martin Halliwell in an exclusive interview with Universe Today, following the stunning sunset blastoff of the SES-11 UHDTV commercial satellite on another 'flight-proven' Falcon 9 booster that also re-landed - thus completing another remarkable round of rocket recovery and recycling or 'launch, land and relaunch!'
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According to a recent statement by members of NASA's Human Research Program, the threat of radiation will not stop the proposed "Journey to Mars" and other deep-space missions.
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Two new studies, independently of each other, have managed to fins some of the "missing matter" contained within the Cosmic Web.
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A new study by an international team of scientists has found a connection between debris disks and giant planets, which could aid in the hunt for exoplanets.
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A new report by an international team of scientists has found evidence of hydrothermal activity in an ancient Mars sea, which could mean life once existed there
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Up early Sunday morning? Or perhaps, as we often do, you're "pulling an all-nighter," out observing until the break of dawn. Well, the clockwork celestial mechanics of the Universe has a treat in store on the morning of October 15th, as the waning crescent Moon occults (passes in front of) the bright star Regulus (Alpha Leonis the "Little King" or "Heart of the Lion") for the contiguous United States, Mexico and southern Canada.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX staged a stunning sunset blastoff this evening Oct. 11, of the commercial SES-11/EchoStar 105 HDTV satellite that will serve the everyday needs of millions of customers across North America as it soared to geostationary orbit on a recycled Falcon 9 from the Florida Space Coast.
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After examining several samples of Martian volcanic rock, which came to Earth in the form of meteorites, researchers were able to determine more about Mars' volcanic past.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX is all set for a sunset blastoff Wednesday, Oct. 11 of the commercial SES-11/EchoStar 105 Ultra High Definition (UHD) TV satellite serving North America on a 'used' Falcon 9 booster from the Florida Space Coast - that is also targeted to re-land a second time on an sea going platform off shore in the Atlantic.
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In two new studies by international teams of astrophysicists, a wealth of merging black hole pairs have been discovered, which has serious implications for gravitational wave research.
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In their latest study concerning Planet 9 , astronomers Brown and Batygin offer the first single and coherent description that accounts for all of the evidence
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A new study by an international team of researchers has proposed a new theory about Tabby's Star, indicating that it be due to an uneven dust cloud orbiting the star
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At the inaugural meeting of the newly-reestablished National Space Council, VP Mike Pence laid out the administration's plan for renewed missions to the Moon.
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A team of scientists from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have proposed a bold idea for protecting Earth against solar flare activity - placing a giant magnetic shield in orbit!
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — A classified spy satellite for the U.S. governments National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is set to kick of a launch double header this week on the Florida Space Coast with what should be a majestic overnight liftoff Thursday, Oct. 5, of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V.
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For their immeasurable contributions to the discovery of gravitational waves, Caltech professors Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Barish, and MIT professor emeritus Rainer Weiss, were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Researchers from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have devised a new way to measure the mass of our galaxy - using hypervelocity stars!
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