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JUICE in Trouble, Sun-Like Star Devours a Planet, Space Station with Artificial Gravity
China's Mars Rover Finds Recent Evidence of Water Near the Equator
Before going into hibernation, China's Zhurong rover found evidence that water recently existed in small patches on Mars (and might still!)
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A Lack of Alien Signals Actually Tells Us a Lot
Watch a SpaceX Fairing's Fiery Re-Entry Through the Atmosphere
Thirsty on the Moon? Just Throw Some Regolith in the Microwave
Lunar colonists may use microwaves to extract water from the Moon's surface.
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Newborn Star Surrounded By Planet-Forming Disks at Different Angles
Solar Flares Could Have Helped Life Get Started on Earth
It's Surprisingly Easy to Hurl Rocks From Mars Into Space
Dark Energy Was Always Present, Everywhere and at Every Time
Astronomers are Starting to Find the Wreckage Left Over from the First Stars in the Universe
Is This Nearby Asteroid a Chunk of the Moon?
Gravitational Lensing is Helping to Nail Down Dark Matter
Using gravitational lenses, a team of astronomers showed how axions could be the particle that makes up Dark Matter.
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Black Hole Event Horizons Can Get So Big it'll Boggle Your Imagination
Some black holes are truly monsters, and astronomers are pretty good at determining just how large they are.
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May 5th's 'Teaser' Lunar Eclipse
A 'barely there' lunar eclipse will flirt with the shadow of the Earth Friday evening.
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JWST Tries to Untangle the Signals of Water. Is it Coming From the Planet or the Star?
Using Webb, a team of scientists may have detected water vapor in a rocky exoplanet's atmosphere (though the signal may have come from the star).
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Even if There's Life on TRAPPIST-1, We Probably Can't Detect it
ESA Can't Deploy JUICE's Radar Antenna. It Needs It to Scan Under the Ice at Callisto, Europa, and Ganymede
Gaze at a Nearby Actively Feeding Supermassive Black Hole
Airbus Designs a Space Station With Artificial Gravity
Airbus just shard its design for the Airbus LOOP, a Multi-Purpose Orbital Module that could be used in future space stations and long-duration spacecraft.
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We Can Now See Into the Permanently Shadowed Craters on the Moon
