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Japan to Launch 'Wooden Satellite' in 2023
What a proposed wooden satellite could (and could not) accomplish.
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Here's the Asteroid Hayabusa2 is Going to be Visiting Next
Missing: Supermassive Black Hole With up to 100 BILLION Times the Mass of the Sun
Astronomers set a new Record and Find the Farthest Galaxy. Its Light Took 13.4 Billion Years to Reach us
The Interior of Enceladus Looks Really Great for Supporting Life
Chang'e-5 Brought Home 1.7 Kilograms of Lunar Samples
Astronomers Discover Hundreds of High-Velocity Stars, Many on Their Way Out of the Milky Way
Combining data from two of the largest databases in the world, an international team of astronomers was able to doubledthe number of known high-velocity stars
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Astronomers Improve Their Distance Scale for the Universe. Unfortunately, it Doesn't Resolve the Crisis in Cosmology
Astronomers have made the cosmic distant ladder more accurate, but that has only made the mystery of cosmic expansion even worse.
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The Personnel of Space Force Will be Called Guardians
According to VP Mike Pence, personnel serving in the U.S. Space Force will henceforth be known as "Guardians"!
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Some of Hayabusa2's Samples are as Big as a Centimeter
Plans for a Mars Sample Return Mission Have Moved to the Next Stage
The Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, a joint effort between NASA and the ESA to bring samples of Mars back to Earth, just moved into the next phase of development!
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Layers Upon Layers of Rock in Candor Chasma on Mars
Planetary Scientists Have Created a Map of Mars' Entire Ancient River Systems
A Steampunk Engine to Solve Your Satellite Woes!
NASA contractor Howe Industries just presented their design for a "steampunk" engine that could allow satellites to maneuver, without the need for toxic propellants or heavy engines.
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Hubble Releases a New Image of Neptune, Revealing a Rapidly Shifting Storm
Astronomers Capture a Direct Image of a Brown Dwarf
ESA is Working on its own Reusable Booster Stage
As part of their Themis Program, the ESA is developing reusable rocket technology.
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Asteroids Crashing Into Dead Stars are Helping Explain Where the Universe's Missing Lithium Went
Brines Could be Present on the Surface of Mars for up to 12 Hours, Never for a Full day
New Data Supports the Modified Gravity Explanation for Dark Matter, Much to the Surprise of the Researchers
A team of astronomers set out to disprove modified gravity, and ended up confirming it instead.
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