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How the World's Biggest Radio Telescope Could be Used to Search for Aliens

By Matthew Williams - April 07, 2020 02:15 PM UTC | Astrobiology
In the coming years, China's FAST radio telescope could join in the hunt for extraterrestrials thanks to a partnership with Breakthrough Listen.
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Decaying Dark Matter Should be Visible Here in the Milky Way as a Halo Around the Galaxy

By Paul Sutter - April 07, 2020 01:16 PM UTC | Milky Way
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Weekly Space Hangout: April 8, 2020 - Colonel Mike Mullane, Astronaut

By Susie Murph - April 07, 2020 12:39 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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SpaceX Will be Flying Cargo to the Moon

By Matthew Williams - April 06, 2020 06:04 PM UTC | Space Exploration
SpaceX was recently awarded a contract through NASA's Gateway Logistics Services program to provide services to the Lunar Gateway
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Astronomers are hoping to see the very first stars and galaxies in the Universe

By Paul Sutter - April 04, 2020 08:37 AM UTC | Cosmology
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SpaceX's Third Starship Prototype Collapsed Last Night

By Matthew Williams - April 03, 2020 07:19 PM UTC | Space Exploration
SpaceX suffered another setback with its development of the Starship last night when a third prototype (SN3) suffered a structural failure during testing and collapsed.
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Because of Coronavirus Lockdowns, Europe is Having the Same Drop in Pollution that we Saw in China

By Evan Gough - April 03, 2020 05:46 PM UTC | Site News
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Want to Buy Flights on Starship? Here's the New SpaceX Payload User's Guide, no Prices, Unfortunately

By Matthew Williams - April 03, 2020 04:33 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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Carnival of Space #657

By Susie Murph - April 03, 2020 03:18 PM UTC | Site News
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Stratolaunch Shows Off its New Hypersonic Testing Vehicle

By Nancy Atkinson - April 03, 2020 12:38 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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New Find Shows Uranus Loses Atmosphere to its Magnetic Field

By David Dickinson - April 03, 2020 10:00 AM UTC | Planetary Science
NASA's researchers at the Goddard Space Flight Center recently did just that, looking at Voyager 2's lone encounter with the planet Uranus to uncover an amazing find, as the planet seems to be losing its atmosphere to it's lop-sided magnetic field at a high rate.
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Mapping Out the Water on the Moon

By Matthew Williams - April 02, 2020 05:37 PM UTC | Planetary Science
Using LRO data, the ESA recently created a map of water ice on the Moon, which will aid in future exploration and resource prospecting
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Astronomers Define the "Really Habitable Zone". Planets Capable of Producing Gin and Tonic

By Evan Gough - April 02, 2020 03:50 PM UTC | Exoplanets
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Five Snapshots of how the Earth Looked at Key Points in its History Could Help us Find Habitable Exoplanets

By Matthew Williams - April 01, 2020 06:19 PM UTC | Exoplanets
A study by Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute provides models of how Earth looked like over time, which could help us find habitable exoplanets
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This Galaxy Has Only One Spiral Arm

By Evan Gough - April 01, 2020 04:58 PM UTC | Extragalactic
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Astronaut Pee Will Help Build Bases on the Moon

By Matthew Williams - March 31, 2020 10:49 PM UTC | Space Exploration
In a strange development, a new ESA-supported study has shown that urine could actually help astronauts build bases on the Moon
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SpaceX Almost Ready to Start Testing its Third Starship Prototype. Let's Hope it Doesn't Explode

By Matthew Williams - March 31, 2020 04:44 PM UTC | Space Exploration
Musk recently posted photos of the latest Starship prototype, which were recently assembled and shipped to Boca Chica to begin testing.
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This Galaxy is the Very Definition of "Flocculent"

By Evan Gough - March 31, 2020 01:34 PM UTC | Extragalactic
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Weekly Space Hangout: April 1, 2020 - Dr. Robert B. Hayes and Radiation Shielding in Space

By Susie Murph - March 31, 2020 09:19 AM UTC | Space Exploration
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How were Supermassive Black Holes Already Forming and Releasing Powerful Jets Shortly After the Big Bang?

By Matthew Williams - March 30, 2020 03:45 PM UTC | Black Holes
A series of studies has shown that the seeds of supermassive black holes and relativistic jets existed much sooner than expected
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