Everything Still Looks Good for Monday's Artemis 1 Launch

By Matthew Williams - August 28, 2022 02:30 PM UTC | Missions

NASA's long-awaited Artemis I mission is a go for Monday, August 29th!

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'Panic!' Around JWST, Exoplanet With CO2, Weak Mars Astronauts

By kuingul-gmail - August 27, 2022 06:02 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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Mechazilla Lifts a Super Heavy With all 33 Engines Onto the Launchpad

By Matthew Williams - August 27, 2022 04:51 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Musk just tweeted an image of the fully-stacked Starship being placed on its landing pad, indicating that an orbital test flight could be coming soon!

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This is What a Robotic Explorer Might See When it Reaches Europa's Oceans

By Nancy Atkinson - August 27, 2022 04:35 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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A New Study Confirms That Gravity has Remained Constant for the Entire age of the Universe

By Matthew Williams - August 27, 2022 03:26 PM UTC | Cosmology

New results from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) have shown that the force of gravity has not changed in the past five billion years.

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Astronomers Find a Waterworld Planet With Deep Oceans in the Habitable Zone

By Matthew Williams - August 26, 2022 07:51 PM UTC | Exoplanets

An international team of astronomers have found the best candidate for an "ocean world," an exoplanet covered in very deep oceans.

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This Ice Cliff is One of the Few Places With Exposed Water ice in the Mid-Latitudes on Mars. It's Probably Tens of Millions of Years old

By Nancy Atkinson - August 26, 2022 11:35 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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Here is Where Astronauts Might Land on the Moon

By Matthew Williams - August 25, 2022 06:05 PM UTC | Space Exploration

NASA has released a map that shows the thirteen possible locations where the Artemis III astronauts could land!

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Carbon Monoxide is Plentiful in Nebulae, but Then Disappears When Planets Form. Now we Know Where it Goes!

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - August 25, 2022 04:56 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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JWST Finds a Clear, Unambiguous Signal for Carbon Dioxide in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere

By Nancy Atkinson - August 25, 2022 12:34 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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Godspeed, Uhura: A Bit of Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols Will Go to Space

By Alan Boyle - August 25, 2022 09:00 AM UTC | Space Exploration

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New Horizons Could Still Have More Adventures Ahead

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - August 24, 2022 10:25 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Want to Live on Mars? Here's Where the Water is

By Matthew Williams - August 24, 2022 04:53 PM UTC | Planetary Science

By combining data from the Mars Express and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a team of researchers has produced a map of Mars that shows where the water is!

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Colliding Black Holes Provide Another way to Measure Distance in the Universe

By Brian Koberlein - August 24, 2022 12:00 PM UTC | Black Holes

Astronomers can use the gravitational waves of merging black holes to measure cosmic expansion.

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Astronauts Going to Mars Will Receive Many Lifetimes Worth of Radiation

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - August 24, 2022 08:44 AM UTC | Space Exploration

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Samples From Asteroid Ryugu Contain Bits That Came From Outside the Solar System

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - August 23, 2022 04:10 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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Gaze Into the Heart of NGC 1365, Captured by Webb

By Matthew Williams - August 23, 2022 02:39 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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Firefly, Northrop Grumman to Redesign Antares

By David Dickinson - August 23, 2022 01:24 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Northrop Grumman will partner with startup Firefly Aerospace, to continue sending cargo to the International Space Station.

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Rare "Red Sprites" Seen From ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile

By Nancy Atkinson - August 23, 2022 09:59 AM UTC | Observing

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The Latest Webb Observations Don't Disprove The Big Bang, But They Are Interesting

By Brian Koberlein - August 23, 2022 09:31 AM UTC | Cosmology

New observations from the JWST don't disprove the big bang any more than Hubble did.

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