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Japan's Mission to Phobos Will Also Bring a Sample Home by 2029
Musk Confirms how "Mechazilla" Will Catch and Assemble Starship and Super Heavy for Rapid Reuse
A new animation shows how SpaceX's "Mechazilla" tower will be able to catch Super Heavy boosters and stack Starships onto them with less than an hour of turnaround time.
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Astronomy Jargon 101: Spectrum
Ingenuity's Flight 12 was a Tricky one, Flying Over Hazardous Terrain
Greenhouses Probably won't Work on Mars Because of Cosmic Radiation. Even the Plants Will Have to Live Underground
Musk Says That Refueling Starship for Lunar Landings Will Take 8 Launches (Maybe 4)
Bezos is still fighting for the HLS contract by claiming the Starship will require too many refueling missions, prompting Musk to respond.
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You can Tell how big a Black Hole is by how it Eats
Astronomers can determine the size of a black hole by the way it consumes nearby matter.
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Ingenuity Sees Perseverance From Above
Astronomy Jargon 101: Luminosity
Who was Giuseppe 'Bepi' Colombo and why Does he Have a Spacecraft Named After him?
Astronomy Jargon 101: Hertzsprung–Russell (HR) diagram
A new Assessment of the World's Climate is out. The News Isn't Good
According to the recently released IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, climate change is going to get significantly worse if we don't seriously clean up our act (and soon!)
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Can you Last a Year on Mars? NASA is Recruiting Crew for a Year-Long Analog Mission
Astronomy Jargon 101: Doppler Shift
Did the Moon Ever Have a Magnetosphere?
New research led by Rochester University has shown the Moon had a short-lived magnetosphere, which has implications for future lunar missions.
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If the First Black Holes Collapsed Directly, Could we Detect Radio Signals From Those Moments?
The birth of direct collapse black holes could be seen by radio telescopes in the near future.
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The First Images and Videos from the Double Venus Flyby
Matter From Light. Physicists Create Matter and Antimatter by Colliding Just Photons.
An effect predicted in 1934 has finally been observed, creating matter from light alone.
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Perseverance Fails to Collect its First Sample
The Perseverance rover failed to collect its first sample because the rock it tried to drill the sample from was too powdery.
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NASA Sends a 3D Printer for Lunar Regolith and More to the ISS
