A new study of the current rate of meteoroid impacts on the Moon suggests that those iconic astronaut boot prints we thought would be around for 2 million years may instead disappear after something like 80,000!
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After a two year stand down, an upgraded commercial Antares rocket was rolled out to the NASA Wallops launch pad on Virginia's eastern shore and raised to its launch position today in anticipation of a spectacular Sunday night liftoff, Oct. 16, to the International Space Station (ISS) on a critical resupply mission for NASA.
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New photos taken by the Mars Express probe reveal evidence of buried glaciers in a region that separates the planet's southern highlands and the northern lowlands.
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New research from a team of UK scientists shows how the early Universe had 10 times more galaxies than previously thought!
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A new study by a team of researchers has shed further light on J1407b, a distant exoplanet that is believed to have a ring system 100 times as big as Saturn's
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Fraser gives 5 answers to the question, "why should we explore space when we have so many problems here on Earth?"
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Ready for some lunar action of proxigean proportions? This weekend's Full Moon ushers in that most (infamous?) of internet ready cultural memes: that of the Supermoon. This moniker stands above the Blood, Mini, and Full Moons both Black and Blue as the Full Moon of the year that folks can't seem to get enough of, and astronomers love to hate.
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The longest living Martian rover ever - Opportunity - has just surpassed another unfathomable milestone - 4500 Sols (or days) exploring the Red Planet !! That's 50 times beyond her "warrantied" life expectancy of merely 90 Sols.
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Relying on data collected by the Dark Energy Survey, astronomers have found evidence of a new dwarf planet that is the farthest object from our Sun to date.
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Contrary to what we previously though, Proxima Centauri has some striking similarities to our Sun, which includes a solar cycle
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President Obama has always been a strong supporter of science, and now he has reaffirmed his support for a mission to Mars.
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SpaceX's key launch facilities on the Florida Space Coast escaped the wrath of Hurricane Matthew's 100 mph wind gusts late last week, suffering only some exterior damage to the satellite processing building, a company spokesman confirmed to Universe Today.
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A new study takes a look at observational evidence obtained about Venus during its 2012 transit of the Sun, which shows unexpected x-rays coming from the planet
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You know what's scarier than a supernova? A supernova that fails, imploding into a black hole, vanishing from the Universe.
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On October 4th, 1957, history was forever changed with the Soviet launch of Sputnik-1, the first artificial satellite to be launched into orbit
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