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There's So Much Pressure at the Earth's Core, it Makes Iron Behave in a Strange Way
An Absolutely Bonkers Plan to Give Mars an Artificial Magnetosphere
To terraform Mars, we will need to give it a protective magnetic field. Here's how we might do it.
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SpinLaunch Hurls a Test Vehicle Kilometers Into the air. Eventually, it'll Throw Them Almost all the way to Orbit
The commercial space company SpinLaunch just conducted its first successful launch test from their facility at Spaceport America.
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Eggshell Planets Have a Thin Brittle Crust and No Mountains or Tectonics
LightSail 2 has Been Flying for 30 Months now, Paving the way for Future Solar Sail Missions
Orbital Launch in January? Elon Musk Updates His Vision for SpaceX's Starship
Maybe There's No Way to Tell if Habitable Planets Orbit Proxima Centauri... Yet!
In a new study, a team of astronomers come to the conclusion that Proxima b will ever be detected making transits in front of Proxima Centauri, which will make it harder to characterize.
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The Next Generation Very Large Array Would be 263 Radio Telescopes Spread Across North America
New Hubble Image Shows Dark Cocoons Where New Stars are Forming
This was Juno's View on its 37th Flight Past Jupiter
Astronomy Jargon 101: Wolf-Rayet Stars
"Irresponsible" Russian Anti-Satellite Test Creates Orbital Debris Field, Endangering the Space Station and Crew
Astronomy Jargon 101: Electromagnetism
Our Complete Guide to November's 'Almost Total' Lunar Eclipse
Friday morning's partial lunar eclipse will flirt with with totality, as the longest of more than a century.
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A Black Hole has been Found Lurking Just Outside the Milky Way
Astronomy Jargon 101: Weak Force
Astronomy Jargon 101: Strong Nuclear Force
Astronomy Jargon 101: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
Not Saying it was Aliens, but 'Oumuamua Probably Wasn't a Nitrogen Iceberg...
In a recent paper, Amir Siraj and Prof. Loeb show that the "nitrogen iceberg" theory cannot explain the mysterious nature of 'Oumuamua.
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Astronomy Jargon 101: Cosmic Microwave Background
