Universe Today
Astronomers Are Sure These Are Two Newborn Planets Orbiting a Distant Star
Jupiter is so Big that our Solar System almost had two Suns
NASA is Giving the SLS a "Green Run" to Prepare it for Launch in Late 2021
Engineers at NASA's Stennis Space Center have resumed tests of the Core Stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) in anticipation of its inaugural launch next year.
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40 Years Ago, Mount St. Helens Blew its Top Off
Hundreds of New Gravitational Lenses Discovered to Help Study the Distant Universe
Venus Meets Mercury This Weekend in a Fine Dusk Conjunction
What's that? You say you've never seen elusive Mercury for yourself? You won't have an excuse after this weekend, when the innermost world meets brilliant Venus at dusk, for one of the best planetary conjunctions for 2020.
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NASA Proposes the Artemis Accords. The New Rules for Lunar Exploration
NASA just released a series of principles designed to foster exploration and cooperation in lunar exploration, called the Artemis Accords.
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Space Force Launches its Mysterious X-37B Spaceplane
The US Space Force, in conjunction with the USAF and the ULA, just launched the X-37B spaceplane for the sixth time!
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This Laser Powered Rover Could Stay in the Shadows on the Moon and Continue to Explore
TESS is Also Helping Astronomers Study Bizarre Pulsating Stars
The Tunguska Explosion Could Have Been Caused By An Asteroid That Still Orbits The Sun
If Rockets were Transparent: Video Shows You How Rockets Use up Their Propellant
Take a Peek Inside a Giant Star Right Before it Dies
Earth Life Probably Can't Spread to Mars Today
New research says life from Earth isn't likely to ever survive on Mars, which is good news as far as planetary protection concerns are involved.
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Was Betelgeuse Formed by Merging Stars?
High Energy Neutrinos Are Coming From Supermassive Black Holes
Some neutrinos are so energetic we don't know how they are produced. But a clue lies in the heart of distant quasars.
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James Webb is Fully Stowed Into its Launch Configuration
China's New Crew Capsule Just Landed, and so Did Parts of their New Rocket!
China's next-generation crewed spacecraft recently returned to Earth after a successful test flight. The Long March 5B rocket that sent it up did as well (parts of it, anyway!)
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Astronomers Continue to Analyze Pluto's Atmosphere
Even More Evidence that Europa has Geysers
