Future Space Telescopes Could be 100 Meters Across, Constructed in Space, and Then Bent Into a Precise Shape

By Matthew Williams - January 30, 2023 04:18 PM UTC | Telescopes

An MIT team proposes a new method for in-space assembly to built a self-adjusting 100 m (328 ft) space telescope

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NASA has Simulated a Tiny Part of the Moon Here on Earth

By Nancy Atkinson - January 30, 2023 02:30 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Astronomers Prepare to Launch LuSEE Night, A Test Observatory on the Far Side of the Moon

By Paul Sutter - January 30, 2023 11:51 AM UTC | Telescopes

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Astronomers Find 25 Fast Radio Bursts That Repeat on a Regular Basis

By Matthew Williams - January 29, 2023 10:03 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Researchers with the CHIME/FRB Collaboration have announced the discovery of 25 new repeating FRBs, almost doubling the number of known events!

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Molecular Clouds Have Long Lives By Constantly Reassembling Themselves

By Paul Sutter - January 29, 2023 09:08 PM UTC | Stars

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Nuclear Rocket In 2027, JWST Problems, Starship WDR

By kuingul-gmail - January 29, 2023 07:02 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Astronomers See Flashes on the Sun That Could be a Sign of an Upcoming Flare

By Nancy Atkinson - January 29, 2023 02:35 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

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Does Failing to Detect Aliens Mean We'll Never Be Contacted?

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - January 29, 2023 03:30 AM UTC | Astrobiology

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A Martian Meteorite Contains Organic Compounds. The Raw Ingredients for Life?

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - January 28, 2023 10:11 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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Beautiful New Hubble Photo Shows Hot, Young Variable Stars in the Orion Nebula

By Nancy Atkinson - January 28, 2023 02:11 PM UTC | Stars

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It's Already Hard Enough to Block a Single Star's Light to See its Planets. But Binary Stars? Yikes

By Evan Gough - January 27, 2023 05:39 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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NASA and DARPA Will be Testing a Nuclear Rocket in Space

By Matthew Williams - January 27, 2023 02:58 PM UTC | Space Exploration

NASA and DARPA have teamed up to create a nuclear thermal rocket that could perform an orbital flight test by 2027.

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Europe Will be Building the Transfer Arm for the Mars Sample Return Mission

By Nancy Atkinson - January 27, 2023 02:16 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Truck-Sized Asteroid Flew Past Earth Yesterday, Coming Within 3,600 km

By Nancy Atkinson - January 27, 2023 09:44 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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Webb NIRISS Instrument has Gone Offline

By Evan Gough - January 26, 2023 05:39 PM UTC | Telescopes

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Lucy Adds Another Asteroid to its Flyby List

By Evan Gough - January 26, 2023 04:50 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Astronomers Pin Down the Age of the Most Distant Galaxy: Seen 367 Million Years After the Big Bang

By Evan Gough - January 26, 2023 01:41 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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Perseverance Takes a Selfie to Show off Some of its Samples

By Nancy Atkinson - January 26, 2023 12:55 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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There's a Crater on Mars That Looks Like a Bear

By Nancy Atkinson - January 26, 2023 10:57 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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According to Simulations, the Milky Way is One in a Million

By Evan Gough - January 25, 2023 03:52 PM UTC | Milky Way

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