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Testing Heat Shields for Different Atmospheres
This Early Impact Devastated Life then Gave it a Boost
China's 'Thousand Sails' Joins Starlink as the Latest Mega-Satellite Constellation in Orbit
With 'Thousand Sails,' China joins the race to fill up Low Earth Orbit with mega-satellite constellations.
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Life on Earth Needed "Unmelted Asteroids"
Dark Matter Has a Firm Grip on These Galaxies
NASA Achieves Impressive Bandwidth with its New Laser Communications System
Scientists Determine the Age of the Moon's Oldest and Largest Impact Basin
New Simulation Will Help Future Missions Collect Moon Dust
The Sun Has Reached Its Solar Maximum and it Could Last for One Year
Check Out This Sneak Peek of the Euclid mission's Cosmic Atlas
Review: Unistellar's New Odyssey Pro Smart Telescope
Unistellar's new Odyssey Pro Telescope offers access to deep-sky astrophotography, in a small portable package.
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Establishing a New Habitability Metric for Future Astrobiology Surveys
The Artemis Astronauts are Getting New Spacesuits With Some Help From Prada
Astronomers Solve the Mystery of the Famed Brown Dwarf That is Too Bright: It's Twins!
Hera Says Farewell to the Earth and Moon
Giant Cluster is Spitting Out Massive Stars
Jupiter's Great Red Spot Jiggles
China Releases its First Roadmap for Space Science and Exploration Through 2050.
Space Force's X-37B will Perform "Never Before-Seen Maneuvers" in Orbit
Hubble and New Horizons Look at Uranus at the Same Time
Europa Clipper Begins Odyssey to Assess Jovian Moon's Habitability
It's Like Looking into a Mirror, 13 Billion Years Ago
How Gravitational Waves Could Let Us See the First Moments After the Big Bang
Can an Asteroid's Movements Reveal a New Force in the Universe?
When NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission arrived at asteroid Bennu, its primary mission was to grab a sample and bring it home to Earth. But researchers also tracked its movements carefully throughout the encounter, and this data could help physicists probe for additional forces in the Universe. Although additional forces haven't been found, the observations help set constraints on what's possible. The spacecraft's upcoming encounter with Apophis will continue the experiment.
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New Research Could Help Resolve the "Three-Body Problem"
Webb Observations Shed New Light on Cosmic Reionization
SpaceX's Mechazilla Catches a Starship Booster on First Try
A Possible Exomoon Could be Volcanic, like Jupiter's Moon Io
A Black Hole has Destroyed a Star, and Used the Wreckage to Pummel Another Star
Astronomers have discovered the telltale signature of a supermassive black hole that recently tore a star apart that came too close. This is known as a tidal disruption event, and it causes a flash of X-ray radiation that's detectable from our space telescopes. The expanding debris cloud from the shredded star has drifted into the path of another star, which is now repeatedly crashing through the cloud every 48 hours, sending out additional flares.
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Satellites are Tracking the Ongoing Sea Level Rise Swamping Pacific Island Nations
Exoplanet Discovered in a Binary System Could Explain Why Red Dwarfs Form Massive Planets
Most Mars Meteorites Came From Five Craters
We've learned a tremendous amount about Mars because samples from the Red Planet have already been delivered to Earth: meteorites. Scientists have studied the composition of Martian meteorites and tracked down the specific craters on Mars where many of them came from. It's believed that Mars has been struck hard enough to produce meteorites about ten times in recent history. Some of these craters have yet to be matched with meteorites, but the rocks could be out there.
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NASA Reveals the Mind-Boggling Scale of Hurricane Milton seen from Space
A New Way to Detect Rocky Exoplanet Atmospheres
How Did Mars Become Uninhabitable?
Good News. Comet Encke Only Threw a Handful of Giant Space Rocks in our Direction
NASA Announces a New Class of Space Missions: Probe Explorers
The Open Star Cluster Westerlund 1, Seen by Webb
TESS Finds a Triple Star System that Could Fit within Mercury's Orbit
The JWST Reveals New Things About How Planetary Systems Form
China Unveils its Lunar Spacesuit
How Accessible is Titanium On The Moon?
Hera Probe Heads Off to See Aftermath of DART's Asteroid Impact
Primordial Holes Could be Hiding in Planets, Asteroids, and Here on Earth
The Milky Way Might be Part of an Even Larger Structure than Laniakea
Webb Detects Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Peroxide on Pluto's Moon Charon
The GALAH Fourth Data Release Provides Vital Data on One Million Stars in the Milky Way.
The Sun Unleashes its Strongest Flare This Cycle
As we approach the peak of Solar Cycle 25, we can expect more and more activity on the Sun. And on October 3rd, the Sun released its most powerful Earth-directed flare of the current cycle, registering as an X9.0. Of course, this means an increase in aurora activity here on the planet, with visibility at lower latitudes. So, if you're hoping to see auroras this cycle, the next couple of days could be your best chance. Good luck!
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