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Dragonfly Mission has Some Ambitious Science Goals to Accomplish When it Arrives at Titan
OSIRIS-Rex got to Know Bennu Really Well. Apparently, There's now a 1-in-1,750 Chance That it'll hit Earth by 2300
Want a LEGO James Webb Space Telescope? It Even Folds Up
Rocky Planet Found With Only Half the Mass of Venus
Curiosity Might Not Be In An Ancient Lake At All
Astronomy Jargon 101: Adaptive Optics
Avoiding the Great Filter. How Long Until We're Living Across the Solar System?
According to a new study, humanity could become an interplanetary species in this century, interstellar by the 23rd, and intragalactic by the 24th.
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Astronomers Find a Nearby Star That a Spitting Image of a Young Sun
Astronomers have found a young star that is very similar to our Sun, and it could tell us about the origin of life on Earth.
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It Turns out There Were Supernovae Exploding all Over, we Just Couldn't see Them
Astronomy Jargon 101: Astronomical Unit
We'll Have to Wait About 3,000 Years for a Reply From Intelligent Civilizations
According to a new study by Harvard Professor Loeb and Amir Siraj, it would around 3000 years to hear a reply from an extraterrestrial civilization.
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Boeing Starliner Launch Scrubbed. No Idea When it Might fly
Skywatcher's Delight: Nova RS Ophiuchi in Outburst and Comet O1 Nishimura
The Perseids, a rare eruption of nova RS Ophiuchi and a challenging dawn comet round out an amazing week of skywatching.
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Astronomy Jargon 101: Parallax
Ganymede in Infrared Taken During Juno's Most Recent Flyby
With its latest flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, the Juno probe has created a new infrared map of Ganymede. This could lead to a better understanding of the moon's surface and interior ocean.
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Astronomy Jargon 101: Magnetars
Starship is Stacked on the Super Heavy Booster. The Tallest Rocket Ever Built
SpaceX achieved another milestone this week as the Starship and Super Heavy prototype were stacked and fully-integrated for the first time!
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Good News! Red Dwarfs Blast Their Superflares out the Poles, Sparing Their Planets From Destruction
The stellar flares of red dwarfs are mostly directed from their poles, which is good news for potentially habitable planets.
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Light Pollution is Making it Harder for Animals to Find Their Way at Night
Animals Could Have Been Around Hundreds of Millions of Years Earlier Than Previously Believed
According to new Earth sciences research, the oldest fossilized remains of animal life may have been found in the Canadian northwest.
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