Universe Today
New Solar Model Successfully Predicted Seven of the Sun's Last Nine Big Flares
NASA Astronauts are Back on Earth After a Successful Crew Dragon Splashdown
Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley just returned from the ISS, completing the first crewed mission from US soil in almost a decade.
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Finally! SpaceX Starship Prototype SN5 Flies Just Over 150 Meters Into the Air
Yesterday, SpaceX moved one step closer to sending people to the Moon and Mars when its SN5 prototype successfully made a 150 m (~500 ft) hop test!
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There's One Cloud on Mars That's Over 1800 km Long
Some Stars Could Support as Many as 7 Habitable Planets
A new study by a team of astronomers and planetary scientists calculate that some stars could have as many as 7 habitable planets orbiting them!
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The Universe is the Same, Everywhere We Look. Even More than Cosmologists Predicted
The Universe is about 10% smoother than we expect, and astronomers aren't entirely sure why.
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Microbes Were Dormant for Over 100 Million Years, But They Were Able to Spring Back to Life
Perseverance Went Into Safe Mode Shortly After Launch, But it's Fine
NASA's Perseverance rover experienced some hiccups shortly after launch, but is back on track and making its seven-month journey to Mars.
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SpaceX Just Completed a Static Fire of Starship Prototype SN5. Next Comes the Hop
SpaceX successfully completed a static fire test with its SN5, which will be followed shortly by a hop test!
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How Loop Quantum Gravity Could Match Anomalies in the CMB with Large Structures in the Modern Universe
A strange celestial tension could be caused by a cosmic tango between events at very small and very large scales.
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Juno Captures Pictures of Ganymede for the First Time
Ancient Meteorites Can be Found Embedded in Rocks, Like Fossils
This Is Fascinating. An Image of a Galaxy's Magnetic Field
There are Natural Starshades Out There, Which Would Help Astronomers Image Exoplanets
A new study by an international team of astronomers has shown that eclipsing binary stars could act as a natural "starshade," making it easier to spot orbiting exoplanets.
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Supermassive black holes can cloak themselves in a cocoon of dust, making them invisible even when they should be bright quasars
China's Mars Mission Took This Picture of the Earth and Moon
Earth Observation Satellites Could be Flown Much Lower than Current Altitudes and Do Better Science
Perseverance Rover Rumbles Off the Launchpad to Mars
There's a flash of ultraviolet just as a white dwarf is exploding as a supernova
Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" IV: What is the Rare Earth Hypothesis?
Looking to answer the question of "where are all the aliens," some scientists have suggested that planets like Earth might actually be very rare.
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