Universe Today
A New Artist's Illustration of the Extremely Large Telescope. So Many Lasers
Catch Monday Morning's Subtle Lunar Eclipse
A penumbral lunar eclipse in the early morning hours of November 30th marks the start of the last eclipse season for 2020.
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Solar astronomers can now predict future sunspots. There should be a big one in a couple of days
Predicting the appearance of a sunspot is like predicting a tornado. But astronomers are starting to do it.
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China's Chang'e-5 Probe Is Off to Bring Back a Moon Sample — and NASA Hopes to See the Data
Here's what we know about Earth's new minimoon
At One Time, This Region of Mars was Inundated by a "Megaflood"
A new study of the Curiosity rover's data has show that the Gale Crater once experienced massive flooding, bolstering the case for past life on Mars.
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Hubble Sees Dark Shadows That Could Be Cast by a Supermassive Black Hole
One of the Building Blocks of Life Can Form in the Harsh Environment of Deep Space Itself. No Star Required
Mars Might Have Lost its Water Quickly
Gravitational lenses could be the key to measuring the expansion rate of the Universe
Nailing down cosmic expansion could depend on distant quasars, and the time it takes their light to reach us when gravitationally lensed.
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Arecibo's Damage is so Serious and Dangerous, They're Just Going to Scrap the Observatory Entirely
In the wake of a second structural failure, the NSF has announced that the iconic Arecibo Observatory will be decommissioned after 57 years of service.
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A High Resolution, Cross-Eyed Look at the Entire Surface of Mars
Scientists Have Re-Analyzed Their Data and Still See a Signal of Phosphine at Venus. Just Less of it
The team that detected phosphine in Venus' atmosphere has reexamined the data and confirmed their discovery, with a few caveats and addendums.
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The First Civilization We Contact Will Have Been Around Much Longer Than Humanity
A 100-Meter Rotating Liquid Mirror Telescope on the Moon? Yes Please.
A team from UT Austin has renewed a proposal for a liquid-mirror telescope on the Moon that could study the first stars in the Universe.
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Earth and the Moon Might Have Captured an Old Upper Stage Rocket
According to NASA, an object detected between the Earth and Moon could actually be the spent stage of a rocket booster from the early Space Age.
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There Might Be Water On All Rocky Planets
Weekly Space Hangout: November 18, 2020 – Dr. Ralph Lorenz, Planetary Scientist and Dragonfly Mission Architect
Some of the Milky Way's oldest stars aren't where they're expected to be
Some of the oldest stars in our galaxy have orbits similar to the Sun, and we don't know why
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Earth's toughest bacteria can survive unprotected in space for at least a year
