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The Companies Taking NASA Back to the Moon in 2024: Blue Origin, SpaceX and Dynetics

By Matthew Williams - May 01, 2020 05:04 PM UTC | Space Exploration
NASA recently announced the three companies that will be building lunar landing systems to take astronauts back to the Moon - SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Dynetics.
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Rocky Planets Orbiting White Dwarf Stars Could be the Perfect Places to Search for Life

By Evan Gough - May 01, 2020 03:11 PM UTC | Astrobiology
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NASA's Perseverance Rover is Going to Jezero Crater, Which is Looking Better and Better as a Place to Search for Evidence of Past Life on Mars

By Evan Gough - April 30, 2020 05:50 PM UTC | Astrobiology
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Could The Physical Constants Change? Possibly, But Probably Not

By Brian Koberlein - April 30, 2020 03:55 PM UTC | Physics
The laws of physics are rooted in universal physical constants. But what if these constants change over time?
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Mars Helicopter gets a Name: Ingenuity

By Nancy Atkinson - April 30, 2020 02:41 PM UTC | Missions
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You're Looking at Spiral Galaxies, Already Forming When the Universe was Just a Baby

By Matthew Williams - April 29, 2020 07:14 PM UTC | Extragalactic
The ALPINE survey recently observed 118 galaxies dated to just 1-1.5 billion years ago, and found that the early galaxies were surprisingly developed.
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Terrible Luck. The Only Person Ever Killed by a Meteorite - Back in 1888

By Nancy Atkinson - April 29, 2020 05:21 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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China's First Mars Lander is Going to be Called "Tianwen"

By Evan Gough - April 29, 2020 05:04 PM UTC | Missions
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How Do You Weigh The Universe?

By Brian Koberlein - April 29, 2020 04:15 PM UTC | Cosmology
If we can find the weight of everything in the universe, we can better understand how the universe came to be.
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There Might Be Dust Devils On Titan Too

By Evan Gough - April 29, 2020 03:01 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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How Will Covid-19 affect the Future of Science?

By Paul Sutter - April 29, 2020 10:57 AM UTC | Site News
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Can wormholes act like time machines?

By Paul Sutter - April 29, 2020 10:37 AM UTC | Physics
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Fomalhaut's Planet Has Gone Missing, But it Might Have Been Something Even More Interesting

By Matthew Williams - April 28, 2020 08:08 PM UTC | Exoplanets
Ongoing observations of the Fomalhaut system using Hubble data has revealed that the mysterious "disappearing" exoplanet may not have been an exoplanet at all.
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Weekly Space Hangout: April 29, 2020 - Alcohol in Space with Chris Carberry

By Susie Murph - April 28, 2020 01:49 AM UTC | Site News
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Now This is Progress! Starship Passes its Cryogenic Test and Doesn't Explode

By Matthew Williams - April 27, 2020 06:21 PM UTC | Space Exploration
The fourth Starship prototype (SN4) achieved a crucial milestone this weekend by passing the cryogenic load test - the same one that caused its three predecessors to explode.
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Carnival of Space #660-661

By Susie Murph - April 27, 2020 05:16 PM UTC | Site News
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OSIRIS-REx Descended Down to Just 75 Meters Above the Surface of Bennu in a Recent Test

By Evan Gough - April 27, 2020 04:18 PM UTC | Missions
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Watch Asteroid 1998 OR2 Zip Past Earth This Week

By David Dickinson - April 27, 2020 01:52 PM UTC | Planetary Science
A fascinating asteroid nammed 1998 OR2 pays our neck of the inner solar system a visit early Wednesday morning, and if skies are clear, you might just get a chance to watch it slide by.
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A Star is Orbiting the Milky Way's Black Hole and Moving Exactly How Einstein Predicted it Should

By Matthew Williams - April 25, 2020 10:17 PM UTC | Black Holes
After almost 30 years of observing a star that orbits the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, scientists have confirmed yet again that Einstein was right!
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This is the Final Picture NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

By Matthew Williams - April 25, 2020 05:24 PM UTC | Telescopes
NASA has just released a mosaic of the California Nebula, which was created from the final images snapped by the Spitzer Space Telescope.
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