Universe Today
New Estimate Calculates There Could be 30 Intelligent Civilizations Communicating Across the Milky Way
New Pictures of Phobos, Seen in the Infrared
Space Dust Delivered Water to Vesta, Could it Have Done the Same for Earth?
Hilarious Supercut of Astronauts Falling on the Moon
Scientists are much better at predicting when the Sun is going to become more active
Well. It Looks Like James Webb is Getting Delayed Again, but it Should Still Launch in 2021
Evidence is Building that the Standard Model of the Expansion of the Universe Needs some new Ideas
Astronomers have measured the Hubble constant using astrophysical masers, and the result makes our understanding of cosmic expansion even worse.
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New Horizons is so Far From Earth That the Positions of the Stars Look a Little Different From its Perspective
From its current position in the Kuiper Belt, the New Horizons spacecraft recently conducted a parallax experiment that is not only groundbreaking, but historic!
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A 2nd Planet has been Confirmed for Proxima Centauri
How SpaceX is Changing Starship to be Able to Land on the Moon
Elon Musk recently revealed more details about the HLS Starship, which could be taking astronauts back to the Moon.
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This is a Binary Star in the Process of Formation
Ideas for Sustainable Cities and Urban Farming... on Mars?
The annual Mars City Design Challenge is looking for new and innovative ideas for how humans could live sustainably on Mars.
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Early Life Was Pumping Out Oxygen, But the Earth's Mantle Was Absorbing it
Once Starship Prototypes are Done Exploding, we could see an Orbital Launch this Year
According to a leaked internal email, SpaceX is all-in on the development of the Starship, which the company's chief engineer says could make an orbital flight before the end of the year.
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Titan is Drifting Away from Saturn Surprisingly Quickly
Neutron Stars Could Have a Layer of Exotic Quark Matter Inside Them
Deep inside a neutron star, neutrons are packed so tightly that they can break apart into quarks. As a result neutron stars likely have a quark core.
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It Should Be Easiest to Search for Young Earth-like Planets When They're Completely Covered in Magma
Hubble Photo of Globular Cluster NGC 6441, One of the Most Massive in the Milky Way
Astronomers Have Found the Star/Exoplanet Combo That's the Best Twin to the Sun/Earth
Is the Concept of a Habitable Zone Too Wide?
Exoplanets are often considered potentially habitable if they could have liquid water. But the necessities of biology set the habitability bar a bit higher.
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