Universe Today
Watch "Live" as NASA's OSIRIS-REx Nabs an Asteroid Sample
You'll Experience 200 Times More Radiation Standing on the Moon than Standing on the Earth
NASA and Seven Countries Sign the Artemis Accords for the Exploration of the Moon. Russia Declined to Participate
What's Happening with Betelgeuse? Astronomers Propose a Specialized Telescope to Watch the Star Every Night
An international team of astronomers recommends creating "Betelgeuse Scope" to monitor this mysterious star find out why it has been acting so strangely of late!
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The galaxy with 99.99% dark matter isn't so mysterious any more
NASA Announces 14 New "Tipping Point" Technologies for its Lunar Exploration
NASA recently awarded contracts to fourteen companies to develop technologies that will help them return to the Moon, and stay there!
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We actually don't know how fast the Milky Way's supermassive black hole is spinning but there might be a way to find out
The stars at the center of our galaxy could tell us just how fast our closest supermassive black hole is spinning.
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Great Barrier Reef Has Lost Half of its Coral Over the Last 25 Years
Impatient? A Spacecraft Could Get to Titan in Only 2 Years Using a Direct Fusion Drive
InSight's 'Mole' is Now Completely buried!
Operating a Rover in Real-time From a Distance
Pluto has Snowcapped Mountains, But Why?
Summer is Dust Devil Time on Mars
Elon Musk Shares a View of Starship With Three Raptor Engines Installed
The SN8 Starship prototype just got its three Raptor engines, and is now preparing to test fire them. After that, it's smooth sailing towards the 15 km (50,000 ft) hop test!
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Weekly Space Hangout: October 14, 2020, Drs. Jane Huang & Jonathan Williams, Protoplanetary Disks
This week we are joined by Dr. Jane Huang and Dr. Jonathan Willams from the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA). Dr. Huang, Dr. Williams, and their team recently discovered some surprising information about the size and shape of some protoplanetary disks.
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Astronomers Report They've Detected the Amino Acid Glycine in the Atmosphere of Venus
China's Mars-bound Tianwen-1 Takes a Selfie
Starman Just Made his Closest Approach to Mars
In a interesting bit of SpaceX news, Starman and his cherry Tesla Roadster made their first flyby of Mars, and will be passing by Earth in less than a month!
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This Martian Lava Tube Skylight is 50 Meters Across. The Biggest Lava Tube on Earth is Only 15 Meters Across
The Most Comprehensive 3D Map of Galaxies Has Been Released
Using the largest survey ever conducted, a team of astronomers from the IfA have created the largest 3D catalog of the Universe ever!
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